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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">No comments? Perhaps a proposed change will evoke some comments:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 1. Name of requester: Peter Constable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 2. E-mail address of requester: petercon at microsoft.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 3. Record Requested:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Type: language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Subtag: wo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Description: Wolof<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Comments: orthographies in Latin and Arabic scripts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: Wolof<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 5. Reference to published description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> of the language (book or article):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">DPLN Senegal. ca 2002. Tableau Général des Alphabets - Arabe/Langues Nationales en Caractères Coraniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Harmonisés et leurs Correspondants en Caractères Latins. Direction de la Promotion des Langues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Nationales (DPLN). 23, Rue Calmette. Dakar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before:always"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 6. Any other relevant information: When the subtag registry was initialized, the record was added with a suppress-script field set to
Latn. However, there is an Arabic-script orthography for Wolof, in addition to a Latin orthography. Since a suppress-script is intended to be used in cases in which a single script is used “to write the overwhelming majority of documents for the given language”,
it is inappropriate for this field to be used for Wolof.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Constable<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 18, 2010 6:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ietflang IETF Languages Discussion (ietf-languages@iana.org)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Wolof suppress script<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The record for Wolof as a suppress-script field:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Type: language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Subtag: wo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Description: Wolof<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Added: 2005-10-16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Suppress-Script: Latn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">But Wolof is written in both Latin and Arabic, and in fact a department under the
<a href="http://www.education.gouv.sn/administration/directions.html">Senegal Ministry of Education</a>,
</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","serif"">Direction d’alphabetisation et les langues nationales</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">, has published a teaching manual for Wolof in Arabic script and has standardized the
Arabic-script orthography for Wolof. (This is not exclusive of standardized Latin orthography for Wolof.) Are we sure the suppress-script field is appropriate in this case?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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