Celtic Macrolanguages in ISO 639-3?

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

Thank you for the replies.

Elizabeth Pyatt

At 3:55 PM +0000 1/5/05, Michael Everson wrote:
>At 10:31 -0500 2005-01-05, John Cowan wrote:
>
>>  > Breton linguists distinguish a KLT  ("standard") Breton from
>>>  Vannetais/Gwened Breton [...].  Similarly, Irish differs significantly
>>>  from Gaeltacht to Gaeltacht  [...].  Finally, Welsh is in a diglossic
>>>  situation [...].
>>
>>These sound like dialect and register differences,
>
>They are, and in the case of Breton, orthographic differences too.
>
>>which are most appropriately handled using the "language variant" 
>>machinery of the RFC 3066bis draft.
>
>Yes.
>--
>Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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