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Hi! <BR>
<BR>I think what Kent is saying here has some merit; but for Moldavian, it seems that if someone wants to identify the differences between spoken Moldavian and Romanian, a variant subtag would be an option. . . & that's all this list can offer, too, in this matter (as far as I understand things). There is no need to identify the written differences.<BR>
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Sincerely,<BR>
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C. E. Whitehead<BR>
<A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A><BR><I>Kent Karlsson kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se <BR>Sat Nov 22 10:54:39 CET 2008 </I><BR>
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<BR>> Den 2008-11-22 04.53, skrev "Peter Constable" <petercon at microsoft.com>:<BR>
<BR>>> <BR>>> (A purist solution, linguistically, would have been to deem Akan as an<BR>>> individual language and deem the others as dialects, hence out of scope and<BR>>> worthy of deprecation. That seemed a bit drastic, however.)<BR>
> Given the recent history with Moldavian in ISO 639, doing what you suggest<BR>> here does not seem to be too drastic.<BR>
/kent k<BR>
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