Latin American Spanish

[Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com]

Name of requester          : Karen Broome

E-mail address of requester: karen_broome at spe.sony.com

Tag to be registered       : es-419

English name of language   : Latin American Spanish

Native name of language : Español Latinoamericano 

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

Lipski, John M.  1994.  Latin American Spanish. Addison Wesley Publishing 
Company. 
 
Martin, Patrice.  2005. "The Quest for El Dorado: A Single Spanish for 
All." Multilingual Computing & Technology. Vol. 12, No. 6 

Any other relevant information :

It is a common business practice to localize content into a neutral 
version of Latin American Spanish to serve all or most Spanish-speaking 
regions in Latin America. This code is intended to identify this neutral 
variant of Latin American Spanish and distinguish it from Castilian found 
in Europe.