<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ah .... I will make the change request
to ISO if that's where it belongs. If this tag was ISO 639-3 only, the
reference to Ethnologue might be more valid. But yeah, this is ISO 639-2
and ISO 639-3. Have we ever veered from the ISO language list's names in
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Karen Broome</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Is this properly for us or for ISO 639?<br>
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At 13:43 -0800 2008-01-09, Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com wrote:<br>
>LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION FORM<br>
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>1. Name of requester: Karen Broome<br>
>2. E-mail address of requester: karen_broome@spe.sony.com<br>
>3. Record Requested:<br>
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>Type: Language<br>
>Subtag: gsw<br>
>Description: Swiss German<br>
>Description: Alemannic<br>
>Description: Alsatian<br>
>Prefix:<br>
>Preferred-Value:<br>
>Deprecated:<br>
>Suppress-Script: Latn<br>
>Comments:<br>
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>4. Intended meaning of the subtag:<br>
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>Not applicable<br>
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>5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):<br>
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>Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World,<br>
>Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.<br>
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>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw<br>
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>6. Any other relevant information:<br>
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>This is a request to add Alsatian to the description list for Swiss
German<br>
>(gsw). This will not only clarify that this dialect is included in
the gsw<br>
>tag, but also improve search functions for users trying to find the<br>
>correct tag for the French dialect of this language in the IANA registry.<br>
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>Karen Broome<br>
>Metadata Systems Designer<br>
>Sony Pictures Entertainment<br>
>310.244.4384<br>
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