[Suppress-Script] Initial list of 300 languages

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Mar 10 15:33:46 CET 2006


John Cowan scripsit:
> The following is a list of 300 language subtags from ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2
> for which we do not have Suppress-Script information.  Please reply,
> annotating the list with those languages of which you have personal
> knowledge.  I will kick off the effort by noting all the ones I know.

And here are my 70 answers.  Feel free to correct me when I err, obviously.
In some cases I have not put down anything when I was uncertain
between "Latn" and "None: not customarily written".

> an Aragonese
	Latn
> az Azerbaijani
	None: multiple scripts
> bi Bislama
	Latn
> bo Tibetan
	Tibt
> br Breton
	Latn
> cu Church Slavic Old Slavonic Church Slavonic Old Bulgarian Old Church Slavonic
	None: multiple scripts
> fy Frisian
	Latn
> gd Gaelic Scottish Gaelic
	Latn
> ia Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
	Latn
> ie Interlingue
	Latn
> ii Sichuan Yi
	Yiii
> io Ido
	Latn
> ja Japanese
	None: special case (multiple scripts normally used simultaneously)
> ji Yiddish
	Hebr
> ko Korean
	Hang
> ku Kurdish
	None: multiple scripts
> kw Cornish
	Latn
> mi Maori
	Latn
> mn Mongolian
	None: multiple scripts
> nv Navajo Navaho
	Latn
> oc Occitan (post 1500) Provençal
	Latn
> rm Raeto-Romance
	Latn
> sc Sardinian
	Latn
> sh Serbo-Croatian
	None: multiple scripts
> sr Serbian
	None: multiple scripts
> ty Tahitian
	Latn
> vo Volapük
	Latn
> zh Chinese
	Hani (even though some varieties of Chinese are customarily
	in Latin, they can't possibly counterbalance the overwhelming
	majority in Hani)
> akk Akkadian
	Xsux
> ang English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
	Latn
> ast Asturian Bable
	Latn
> chr Cherokee
	Cher
> cop Coptic
	Copt
> csb Kashubian
	Latn
> dak Dakota
	Latn
> dsb Lower Sorbian
	Latn
> dum Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
	Latn
> egy Egyptian (Ancient)
	None: multiple scripts
> enm English, Middle (1100-1500)
	Latn
> fil Filipino Pilipino
	Latn
> frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
	Latn
> fro French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
	Latn
> fur Friulian
	Latn
> gez Geez
	Ethi
> gmh German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
	Latn
> goh German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)
	Latn
> got Gothic
	None: multiple scripts
> grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
	Grek
> haw Hawaiian
	Latn
> hmn Hmong
	None: multiple scripts
> hsb Upper Sorbian
	Latn
> jbo Lojban
	Latn
> jrb Judeo-Arabic
	None: multiple scripts
> lad Ladino
	None: multiple scripts
> mga Irish, Middle (900-1200)
	Latn
> nai North American Indian
	None: language collection
> nds Low German Low Saxon German, Low Saxon, Low
	Latn
> ota Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
	Arab
> phn Phoenician
	Phnx
> pro Provençal, Old (to 1500)
	Latn
> rap Rapanui
	Latn
> rar Rarotongan
	Latn
> sco Scots
	Latn
> sga Irish, Old (to 900)
	Latn
> srn Sranan Tongo
	Latn
> sux Sumerian
	Xsux
> syr Syriac
	Syrc
> tlh Klingon tlhIngan-Hol
	Latn (meets the "overwhelming majority" condition)
> und Undetermined
	None: inappropriate

-- 
John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org  www.ap.org  www.ccil.org/~cowan
If a traveler were informed that such a man [as Lord John Russell] was
leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the
Egyptians worshiped an insect.  --Benjamin Disraeli


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