Sign languages (was: Re: additions to ISO 639 and the IANA language subtag registry)

[John Cowan]

Mark Davis scripsit:

> I agree with Doug's comments. The use of "sgn-xxx" was never a 
> particularly way of tagging, since it implies that there is some level 
> of shared comprehension between "sgn-xxx" and "sgn-yyy". Much better 
> would be "xxx-signed", etc.

1) There is some degree of mutual intelligibility, as I noted.  2) Backward
compatibility matters.

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