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Hi.<BR>Leif Halvard Silli xn--mlform-iua at xn--mlform-iua.no <BR>Sat Jun 12 11:28:56 CEST 2010 <BR>
<BR>> Doug Ewell, Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:13:07 -0600:<BR>>> Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail dot com> wrote:<BR>>> <BR>>>>> Option 1: Montenegrin continues to be represented by sr-ME.<BR>>>> <BR>>>> This option is not good as there are speakers of standard Serbian <BR>>>> language in Montenegro. So, sr-ME should mean "Serbian spoken in <BR>>>> Montenegro" as sr-Ba means "Serbian spoken in Bosnia and <BR>>>> Herzegovina".<BR>>> <BR>>> Region subtags in BCP 47 identify the language variation typically <BR>>> identified with that country or region, not the country in which the <BR>>> speaker happens to be physically located. A person who speaks the <BR>>> Serbian-standard dialect is speaking "sr-RS" regardless of whether he <BR>>> or she lives in Serbia, Montenegro, or Bhutan.<BR>
> To which Milos Rancic, Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:40:52 +0200 replied:<BR>>> In relation to the written language, there are no national differences<BR>>> between variants of Serbian language.<BR>
> [ snip to Milos' conclusion about the written language: ]<BR>
>> In other words, if it is so, then sr-BA and sr-ME, as well as hr-BA<BR>>> and hr-ME, don't exist.<BR>>> <BR>>> At the *spoken* level, there are dialect differences, but written<BR>>> language is always the same. Besides that, there are no spoken<BR>>> differences between Serbian and Montenegrin in, let's say, Podgorica.<BR>
> Doug: So, I am not sure there is any difference between you and Milos <BR>> here. The way I perceived Milos, he emphasized that he talked about the <BR>> spoken language. (Though I am also going to ask Milos a question - see <BR>> below.)<BR>
> Milos: So, when you said 'So, sr-ME should mean "Serbian spoken in <BR>> Montenegro"', you meant 'So, sr-ME should mean "a Montenegrin dialect <BR>> of the Serbian Language"'?<BR>
What Milos seems to be saying is that, in the case that the written versions of the language are being specified, the country/regional codes do not add information to the sr or hr subtags.<BR>
Is this correct?<BR>This is all the additional information on Montenegrin that I can locate:<BR><A href="http://www.pcgn.org.uk/Montenegro2.pdf">http://www.pcgn.org.uk/Montenegro2.pdf</A><BR>
If a language subtag is not approved (and I am unsure at this point what I think -- though I do not disapprove of one -- as there are three supposedly different characters with different pronunciations), <BR>then an alternate name for Serbian and the tag sr-ME -- as suggested -- would be o.k. for me too.<BR>
Best,<BR>
C. E. Whitehead<BR><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> <BR>> -- <BR>> leif halvard silli<BR><BR> </body>
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