You're missing (or at least not responding to) most of my message.<div><br></div><div>1) The ethnologue is not normative.</div><div>2) Even if "standard" were the touchstone, that would mean that English, French, etc. could be redefined....</div>
<div><br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 16:03, John Cowan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Mark Davis â?? scripsit:<br>
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> The information in 639-3 about deu is:<br>
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</div>> deudeu / ger* <#note> deGerman<br>
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> Identifier:deuName:GermanStatus:ActiveCode sets: 639-2/T and<br>
> 639-3Equivalents: 639-1: de<br>
</div>> 639-2/B: ger <documentation.asp?id=ger>Scope:Individual <scope.asp#I>Type:<br>
> Living <types.asp#L>Denotation: See corresponding entry in<br>
> Ethnologue<<a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=deu" target="_blank">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=deu</a>><br>
> .<br>
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> That has:<br>
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> *Population <ethno_docs/introduction.asp#population>* 75,300,000 in Germany<br>
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etc. etc. etc. But you omit the most important bit, at the top, in<br>
Really Big Letters:<br>
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German, Standard<br>
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It's very unlikely that Standard German will be divided into different<br>
languages any time soon.<br>
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But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter.<br>
You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless.<br>
For living or dark undead, I will smite you if you touch him.<br>
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