There are two reasons for having a non-deprecated sh. First, the equivalent hbs is in ISO 639-3, which we are taking as a basis for our expansion in many ways. Having that one macrolanguage be deprecated is just anomalous.<br>
<br>Second, there is a real use case. According to a good deal of feedback from native speakers in Google, what we call Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian are really dialects of the one language -- according to the criteria of mutual comprehension. They are really just like the situation with "mo" and "ro". Had we had BCP 47 some time ago (and the right country boundaries), they would have been sh-RS (or maybe sh-Cyrl), sh-BA, sh-HR. Having "sh" as a macrolanguage recognizes that situation, and gives us a neutral general code to express the situation.<br>
<br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 05:09, Doug Ewell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@ewellic.org">doug@ewellic.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Lang Gérard <gerard dot lang at insee dot fr> wrote:<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> So that my text should be completed by the adjunction of a new point:<br>
><br>
> "12-On 2009-03-03, ISO 639/RA-JAC changed the language names<br>
> concerning 42 alpha-3 collective language ISO 639-2 code elements, so<br>
> that:<br>
> -"ine/ine" that was an initial code element of ISO 639-2 (1998)<br>
> changed its collective language name from "Indo-European (Others)/<br>
</div>> indo-europennes, autres langues" to "Indo-European, languages/<br>
> indo-europennes, langues";<br>
<div class="im">> -"sla/sla" that was an initial code element of ISO 639-2 (1998)<br>
> changed its collective language name from "Slavic (Other)/ slaves,<br>
> autres langues" to "Slavic languages/ slaves, langues".<br>
<br>
</div>But I don't see what this has to do with whether "sh" and/or "hbs"<br>
should be withdrawn from any part of ISO 639, or deprecated in the<br>
Registry.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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