LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION - CS

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Mon May 22 19:42:34 CEST 2006


Peter Constable scripsit:

> I presume there are no differences between Serbian (or other languages)
> as spoken/written in Serbia vs. Montenegro, so one might try to argue
> that documents with that tag are still acceptably tagged - in other
> words, for purposes of language distinctions CS in the context a
> language tag xx-CS would effectively continue to mean "Serbia and
> Montenagro".

Supposedly the Language Without A Name is spoken using ijekavian forms in
Montenegro, but with typically Serbian lexical choices.  So there is some
difference.

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