Language Identifier List Comments, updated

[John Cowan]

Peter Constable scripsit:

> If you want to refer to Standard Arabic, use "ar". If Standard Arabic
> has a Sudan-specific variant (dialect or spelling differences), then use
> ar-SD. If what is intended is the vernacular Sudanese Spoken Arabic
> (perceived as a distinct language from Standard Arabic or the spoken
> varieties in other countries), then ISO 639-3 will provide a distinct
> alpha-3 ID, and I suggest that people wait to use that.

Eh?  Has the decision to make "ar" a macro-language been changed?

-- 
In politics, obedience and support      John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth.com>
are the same thing.  --Hannah Arendt    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan