New language subtags

[Doug Ewell]

In addition to "gsw" for Swiss German, two other new code elements have 
just been added to ISO 639-2:

"anp" for Angika
"frr" for Northern Frisian

It has been proposed that "gsw" and presumably these other two should be 
registered after the publication of draft-initial, through the normal 
ietf-languages channel, rather than added to the draft.  I have no 
objection to this.

The three records that would need to be added are as follows:

Type: language
Subtag: anp
Description: Angika
Added: 2005-11-08
%%
Type: language
Subtag: frr
Description: Northern Frisian
Added: 2005-11-08
%%
Type: language
Subtag: gsw
Description: Swiss German
Description: Alemanic
Added: 2005-11-04

The "Added" dates are for illustration; they reflect the date these 
items were added to ISO 639.  In reality, they would be probably 
assigned an "Added" date equal to the date they were registered through 
ietf-languages.

Note that the description of "gsw" was taken verbatim from ISO 639, and 
does not include the name "Schwyzerdütsch" for that reason.  ISO/DIS 
639-3 does use this name.  Note also that "frr" does not currently exist 
in ISO/DIS 639-3, although it does not conflict with it.

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/