<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I think you are looking at one kind
of tagging. There are other applications of this code set.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There are dozens of examples in the
Library of Congress cataloging records which specifically state that the
content is Latgalian, but the tag in the fixed length fields (008, 041)
is 'lav'. Furthermore, their documentation (the MARC Code List for Languages)
states that 'lav' should be used in this field when the content is in Latgalian.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That is the primary reason that the
macrolanguage has been proposed. It was the point that Peter Constable
was making.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This is not the case with Walliser,
as far as I can tell, and that is why the proposals are structured differently.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Joan Spanne<br>
ISO 639-3/RA<br>
SIL International<br>
7500 W Camp Wisdom Rd<br>
Dallas, TX 75236<br>
ISO639-3@sil.org</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail dot com>
wrote:<br>
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> To me, since Latgalia n has its own distinct writing system, and its
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> own literature (thus meeting the criteria for a separate language
at <br>
> ethnologue; <br>
> http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/introduction.asp#language_id),<br>
> I do not see any problem with its getting its own language subtag.<br>
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For my part, at least, I have no problem with the idea that Latgalian <br>
should get its own language subtag if experts feel it is a distinct <br>
language. My concern is with converting the existing "Latvian"
to a <br>
macrolanguage, which implies that the term "Latvian" sometimes
refers <br>
just to Standard Latvian and sometimes to both Standard Latvian and <br>
Latgalian. I don't necessarily get the impression that the latter
is <br>
true; it seems that when people mean Latgalian, they say "Latgalian."<br>
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org<br>
RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s
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