zh-hans LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

[Mark Davis]

LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

   Name of requester          :

Mark Davis

   E-mail address of requester:

mark.davis at jtcvs.com

   Tag to be registered       :
   English name of language   :
   Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII):

zh-hans; simplified Chinese; zhong wen (jian ti zi)

   Reference to published description of the language (book or
article):

Chinese is customarily written in two very different script variants,
called simplified and traditional. It is often required, when matching
languages, to select a subset of documents written in a particular
script variant. When looking up language resources, this is even more
important, so that text in different script variants is not mixed.

References:

Ramsey, S. Robert. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1987. Paper. ISBN: 0-691-01468-X

Wang, W. S-Y. Languages and Dialects of China. Journal of Chinese
Linguistics Monograph Series No. 3. Berkeley: Journal of Chinese
Linguistics, 1991

DeFrancis, John. The Chinese Language: Fact And Fantasy. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1984. Paper. ISBN: 0-8248-1068-6

Chao, Yuen Ren. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1968. ISBN: 0-520-00219-9.

Kratochvil, Paul. The Chinese Language Today: features of an emerging
standard. London: Hutchinson, 1968.

Boltz, William G. The Origin and Development of the Chinese Writing
System. Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1994. ISBN: 0-940490-78-1

The structure of these tags follows the pattern used and precedent set
by yi-latn.

   Any other relevant information:

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(408) 256-3148
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