Request for variant subtag: western

[Michael Everson]

At 16:00 -0700 2006-08-29, Peter Constable wrote:
>Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>	boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C6CBBE.F4DED38B"
>
>I understand Michael's concern about generic subtags: there's a long 
>list of possibilities, we might be able to combine those with any 
>number of languages, and it could be somewhat confusing. (Would we 
>want a tag for the western variant of Eastern Frisian?) But one 
>thing Michael might be missing is that Mark's request specifies "hy" 
>as a specific prefix for use with this subtag: the generic tags 
>would have limitations on how it should be used.

I think a great many entities identified in 639-3 are identified by 
Eastern/Western/Northern/Southern. What happens to them if Mark's 
proposal is accepted?

Are both Armenians "hye" to SIL?
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com