some ISO DIS 639-3 stats

[Peter Constable]

> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org]

> Thank you for this posting, and for all your labor at this potentially
> thankless task.

You're welcome :-)

 
> > There are 56 macrolanguages and 364 macrolanguage mappings that
> > will be included in ISO 639-3.
> 
> I assume this means that there are 364 languages which constitute
> the components of those 56 macrolanguages.

Yes.


> > There are 68 collections; these will not be included in ISO 639-3.
12 of
> > the collections are items that are named in ISO 639-2 like
individual
> > languages. One ("North American Indian") is clearly intended to be a
> > collection but not named like a collection. For the other 11, there
is
> > nothing in ISO 639-2 suggesting they are collections; they have been
> > reanalyzed (or that's the pending proposal) as collections.
> 
> Umm, 12+1+11 = 24, not 68.  Something's astray here.

collections named like collections in ISO 639-2   56
North American Indian                              1
ISO 639-2 ind'l langs reanalyzed as collections   11
-----------------------------------------------------
total                                             68


Does that make sense now?


Peter
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