[Fwd]: Response to Mark's message]

[Peter_Constable at sil.org]

John Cowan wrote on 04/09/2003 08:27:16 PM:

> Are there in fact any unwritten languages in ISO 639?

If not, only because nobody has requested one and provided evidence of 50
or more (non-written) documents. (E.g. audio or video recordings. I'm not
sure if 50 or more knotted ropes would count -- or whether or not you'd
count that as writing :-).



- Peter


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