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Hi. Here are my remaining votes on Peter's suppress script request: for the languages subsumed under [ar], I would be wary of a blanket suppress-script for non-written languages -- but feel it is fine at least for Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic as well as perhaps for Chadian Arabic and definitely of course for standard Arabic ([arb]). However it may not be o.k. for Cypriot Arabic. For the remainder I feel it would be best to hold off on suppress-script till we can get feedback from native bloggers and such . . . mainly because the dialects differ most not in writing but in the vowels used and the endings -- which aren't so readily shown using Arabic script; I don't recollect what I said about Mozarabic and it's not Arabic but somehow I got the idea that ietf had classified it as such; sorry).<BR>
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For Yiddish as I said suppress-script of Hebrew is fine.<BR>
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For the cases where Peter has indicated a script is unstable, he is right; these seem to be unstable; so again a blanket suppress-script may not be the best idea in these cases, nor perhaps in the case of konkani since I got conflicting info for it online.<BR><BR>Here are my preferences item-by-item:<BR>
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A suppress-script of Arab should be fine for pes (Iranian Persian) and prs (Dari or Afghan Persian).<BR><BR><BR>* * *<BR>For ps (pushto) -- suppress-script of Arab should be fine for pbt (Southern Pashto), pbu (Northern Pashto), and pbs (Central Pashto). <BR><BR>
* * *<BR>For lv (Latvian) suppress-script of Latin should be fine for lvs (standard) and ltg (Latgalian); likewise for et (Estonian) suppress-script of Latin should be fine for ekk (Standard Estonian) and vro (Võro); and of course for no (Norwegian) suppress-script of Latin should be fine for nn (Norwegian and nb (Norwegian Bokmal).<BR><BR>Likewise I would guess Latin would be o.k. for the Quechua varieties.<BR><BR>
* * *<BR>for sw (Swahili) Latin script is fine.<BR>
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As for the rest, I know nothing about the writing of these; so everything is based only on what I found online:<BR><BR>
* * *<BR>For ay -- Aymara -- again Latin script is shown online -- and this seems right to me.<BR>
* * *<BR>For gn --Guarani -- those subtags that are encompassed indicate Latn script at ethnologue.<BR><BR>
* * *<BR>For kok (Konkani) I am not sure about suppress-script -- this is not my area of expertise; I can direct you to ethnologue's pages on this:<BR>for konkani, goan<BR>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gom<BR>gives "Kannada script. Latin script"<BR><BR>whereas for konkani,<BR>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=knn<BR>gives Devanagari as the official script<BR>
And here is the Wikipedia info:<BR>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language#Scripts<BR>* * *<BR><BR>For mg (Malagasy) again Latin script is shown online.<BR>* * *<BR><BR><BR>For om (Oromo) which Peter listed as unstable, ethnologue shows Latin as primary:<BR><BR>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gaz<BR>
Ethnologue says this is now Latin script although the script was Ethiopic<BR>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=orc<BR>
Ethnologue says the script is Latin<BR>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hae<BR>Ethnologue says the script is Latin<BR>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gax<BR>Ethnologue says the script is Latin<BR><BR>* * *<BR>For sq (Albanian)<BR><BR>Ethnologue <BR><A href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=aat">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=aat</A> <BR>says Greek script is used for this variety; however Omniglot suggests that when we are not concerned with historical variants, Latin script may be sufficient: <BR>
<A href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/albanian.htm">http://www.omniglot.com/writing/albanian.htm</A> <BR>
<BR>For the other variety, ethnologue<BR><A href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=als">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=als</A><BR><BR>says this used Greek script but now uses Latin.<BR><BR>
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For tmh (Tamashek), again Peter said this was unstable, and Latin and Tifnagh are both listed for all varieties at ethnologue;<BR>
Wikipedia suggests the preferred script depends on the country and in addition that Arabic script may be occasionally used<BR>* * *<BR>
For Malay varieties, which again Peter indicated as not having a stable script, Latin script seems dominant. There are three religious groups -- Muslim, Christian, traditional -- and thus non-Latin scripts such as Thai or Arabic may be at least occasionally used; see:<BR><A href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=486-16">http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=486-16</A> <BR><BR>
Ethnologue shows Arabic and Latin scripts for Indonesian (the primary language in this group):<BR>
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ind<BR>
but Latin must be dominant as this already gets Latin suppress-script.<BR></SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN lang=FR>
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However in some cases ethnologue does list only a non-Latin script . . . (I'll have the whole list tomorrow).<BR>
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Best,<BR>
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--C. E. Whitehead<BR>
<A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> <BR></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </body>
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