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<BR>Hi.<BR>John Cowan cowan at ccil.org <BR>Fri Jan 22 17:30:10 CET 2010 <BR><BR>> Doug Ewell scripsit:<BR>>> Of possible interest to this list, based on earlier discussions: Latvian <BR>>> was converted to a macrolanguage (encompassing Latgalian and Standard <BR>>> Latvian)<BR>><BR>> Okay then. In addition to the existing subtag 'lv', we will also have<BR>> the new subtags 'lvs' for Standard Latvian and 'ltg' for Latgalian.<BR>> This list has to decide, therefore, whether to allow 'lvs' and 'ltg' as<BR>> extlang subtags, thus permitting the tags "lv-lvs" and "lv-ltg".<BR>><BR>> I belive these lv-* forms should be permitted, on the close analogy of<BR>> kok-*, sw-*, and uz-*. For all of these, there are two languages in the<BR>> macrolanguage, one of which is dominant, and so people will hesitate<BR>> whether to use the long-established macrolanguage identifier or the identifier<BR>> for the dominant individual language. The forms ar-*, ms-*, and zh-*<BR>> are very similar except that there are multiple non-dominant languages.<BR>><BR>It's o.k. with me to make Latgalian and Standard Latvian subtags into extended language subtags--<BR>if it helps mapping <BR>(the questions would be:<BR> <BR>(1), how much Latgalian is currently tagged as [lv] because it seemed that much was untagged;<BR>and (2), how similar are the written forms of Latgalian and Standard Latvian?--these are not identical). <BR> <BR>Extended language status would allow [lv] (the macro-language<BR>to be mapped to both Standard Latvian and Latgalian fairly readily; however if the list of extension languages<BR>is truely closed, as Kent says, then drop it.<BR>Best,<BR>C. E. Whitehead<BR><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A><BR>> The only argument against is that we did not do so for et-*; however, that<BR>> was not a reasoned decision but a matter of bad timing.<BR><BR><BR> </body>
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