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Hi, I tend to favor a separate code for Montenegrin to be parallel with other languages -- but the authority rests with the ISO 639 authorities.<BR><BR>According to,<BR><A href="http://www.montenegro.org/language.html">http://www.montenegro.org/language.html</A><BR>
"Montenegrins speak and write Montenegrin. It is sociolinguistically, ethnically, and culturally a separate language. For example, the Montenegrin language has 33 letters while Serbian and Croatian each have 30. "<BR><BR>
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As for the tagging/filtering issue, I do not think content currently online is identified by country/region code although that would be one way to identify this content.<BR>
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Is the following site in Montenegrin? --<BR><A href="http://www.beograd.com/">http://www.beograd.com/</A><BR>
If so I would note that the language code being used here is not sr but hr<BR>with no country or script code although the script is obviously Latin.<BR>
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There are no language tags for any of the content in any language at the following URL:<BR><A href="http://www.gov.me/en/homepage">http://www.gov.me/en/homepage</A><BR><A href="http://www.gov.me/naslovna?alphabet=lat">http://www.gov.me/naslovna?alphabet=lat</A><BR>(I'd love it if someone would help identify whether the content identified above is Montenegrin.)<BR>
<BR>Nor at the following -- which I would guess to be in Montenegrin:<BR><A href="http://www.montenegrina.net/">http://www.montenegrina.net/</A><BR><BR>
So my guess is that much content is untagged but I do not know.<BR>
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I suppose that hr-Latn-ME<BR>and hr-Latn-ME<BR>might both be used for Montenegrin (however, it seems that many current tags do not include either script or country code subtags). <BR><BR>
Thus, for determining what lookup or fallback tag options should be, can statistical analysis decide this?<BR>
<BR>Mark Davis mark at macchiato.com <BR>Thu Jun 10 21:01:10 CEST 2010 <BR>> The separation of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the base language code<BR>> instead of using regions or variants to distinguish them already causes<BR>> problems. Thus we have had to develop mechanisms to deal with that. Adding<BR>> one more to the mix adds some incremental cost, but probably not huge.<BR><BR>
This is good to know.<BR>
<BR>> The following comment is, however, extremely worrisome:<BR>
>> But, in the case that we should agree that Montenegrin and Serbian are<BR>>> linguistically equivalent, then we would also be obliged to recognize that<BR>>> Bosniac and Serbian are linguistically equivalent. And so, we would be<BR>>> obliged to conclude that Bosniac and Montenegrin MUST be treated on an equal<BR>>> footing.<BR>
<BR>Hopefully we can treat Montenegrin, along with Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, as exceptions to the rule that language codes are only provided in cases of mutual incomprehensibility -- Montenegrin seems to meet other criteria (it has a community of use who identify it as their language; it has official status it seems -- by a majority vote; it has a literature<BR>See: <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegrin_literature">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegrin_literature</A>).<BR>
However there is also a pan-Serbian movement it seems. Is this going to be an issue?<BR>
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> There are a few unfortunate cases in ISO 639 that break the principle that<BR>> separate codes are only supplied in cases of mutual incomprehensibility.<BR>> Saying those few exceptions establish a precedent, and that we must to allow<BR>> EVERY case of different dialects or orthographic variant to get separate<BR>> base language codes would be a complete disaster. Separating "American" from<BR>> "British" English, Brazilian from Portuguese, &c. in the base language code<BR>> would cause innumerable implementation and compatibility problems.<BR>
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O.k.<BR>
Hope some of my info helps in any case.<BR>
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Best,<BR>
C. E. Whitehead<BR><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> <BR> </body>
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