Language Subtag Registration Form: variant "signed"

[John Cowan]

Frank Ellermann scripsit:

> Is that so ?  What's the difference between say en-GB-signed
> and en-IE-signed ?  I'd prefer to skip the regions and just
> say  Prefix: en  if that's good enough.  

The fact that in the first case the lexical source for the signs
is British SL, whereas in the second case it's Irish SL.

I continue to believe that signed spoken languages should be
handled with an extension so that both the lexical source
(a SL) and the grammatical source (a spoken language) can be
fully specified.

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