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Hi,<BR> <BR>I remember that Doug proposed:<BR> <BR>> Type: language<BR>> Subtag: gsw<BR>> Description: Swiss German<BR>> Description: Alemannic<BR>> Added: 2006-03-08<BR>> Suppress-Script: Latn<BR>> Comment: gsw-FR represents the Alsatian dialect<BR><BR>Or you might have the comment read:<BR>Comment: gsw-FR generally represents the Alsatian dialect.<BR> <BR>And be done with it.<BR> <BR>Though you can also keep waiting for a reclassification too. But it seems the comment would be o.k. without any reclassification & you can then just wait till you get one.<BR> <BR>Alternately there is the variant Alsatian registered originally requested, with the prefix [gsw]. It would represent the Alsatian dialect and then [gsw] would represent any dialect of [gsw] when spoken in France. <BR> <BR>(This is based on Stephane Bortzmeier's information (<A href="http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2008-January/007264.html">http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2008-January/007264.html</A>):<BR>"Do note also that some alsatian local dialects are *not* variant of Alemannic at all but Franconian or even Roman languages."<BR>I suppose [gsw-FR] might (in addition to representing Alsatian) also represent any dialect of Alemannic but spoken in France? Or is that going too far??)<BR> <BR><BR>--C. E. Whitehead<BR><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> <BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></body>
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