LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM: iu-Cans-CA

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Thu Feb 3 22:48:56 CET 2005


LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

Name of requester          : Peter Constable
E-mail address of requester: <petercon at microsoft.com>
Tag to be registered       : iu-Cans-CA

English name of language   : Inuktitut in Canadian aboriginal 
                             syllabic script, as used in Canada
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): inuktitut

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

RFC 3066 currently provides for the tags iu for Inuktitut and iu-CA
for Inuktitut as used in Canada. Inuktitut is customarily written both 
in Latin script and in the Canadian aboriginal syllabic script, however.

It is often required, when matching languages, to select a subset of 
documents written in a particular script. When looking up language 
resources, this is even more important, so that text in different 
scripts is not mixed.

Thus, it is important to be able to distinguish between scripts used
in writing iu-CA: iu-Cans-CA vs. iu-Latn-CA.

References:
http://www.gov.nu.ca/cley/english/language.htm
http://www.language-museum.com/i/inuktitut-eastern-canadian.htm (Latin
script)
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/esb.htm (syllabic script)


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