Request for variant subtag: western

[Michael Everson]

At 15:25 -0700 2006-08-29, Mark Davis wrote:
>The goal of RFC3066bis is to distinguish important cases, and the 
>distinction between Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian is *far* 
>more significant than the distinction between de and de-1901 or 
>en-GB-oed and en-GB, and far more important than the distinction 
>between en and en-boont.

In what way? In terms of computing, the orthography of the two 
dialects is prettyt much the same (the differences are small). In 
terms of pronunciation (and sometimes transliteration), the 
differences are major.

>The text of RFC3066bis specifically recognizes that the same variant 
>subtag might be applicable to multiple prefixes; the meaning of the 
>variant is relevant to that prefix.

See the following list.

Eastern
Western
Northern
Southern
Northeastern
Northwestern
Southeastern
Southwestern
Inner
Outer
Upper
Lower
Hill
Plain
Valley
Cave
Desert
Jungle
Central
Peripheral
Prestige
Vulgar
Urban
Rural
Village
Town
Male
Female
Adult
Adolescent
Child
Sacred
Profane
Local
Native
Indigenous
Diaspora
etc etc etc etc etc etc

Do your linguistic homework. If you want "generic" tags of this 
nature, propose to add a lot of them all at once.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com