<div dir="ltr">It might be that Barlavente dialect need a separate ISO code, but as I'm not a linguistic I'm not in position to have a strong opinion about this.<br><br>My problem is that I make a new website for our project and we will have it translated in both Barlavente and Sotaventu dialect, but there doesn't exist any tags to separate them. Either we will get a new tag or we need to create our own custom tag.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/11/14 Peter Constable <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petercon@microsoft.com" target="_blank">petercon@microsoft.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">






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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If there is low mutual intelligibility between the varieties, that raises the question as to whether they should, instead, be considered distinct, individual
 languages – in which case separate ISO 639-3 IDs would be more appropriate than a variant subtag.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m not assuming that the two varieties should be considered different languages; I’m just raising the question. Levels of spoken intelligibility between varieties
 is only one consideration; others might include internal attitudes and perception of identity, local language policy, and the role and status of writing and literature.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Peter<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mats Blakstad<br>
<b>Sent:</b> November 14, 2013 9:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ietf-languages@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">ietf-languages@alvestrand.no</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Registration request for new subtag<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">1. <b>Name of requester</b>: Mats Blakstad</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Type</b>: variant      <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Subtag</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:barla      <u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Description</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: The Barlavente dialect of Kabuverdianu<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prefix</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:<b> </b>kea<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Comments</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: The Barlavente dialect is one of the two main dialects for Kabuverdianu.
 There is low mutual intelligibility between the dialects.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The local variety of Kabuverdianu as spoken on the Barlavento Islands<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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