[Ltru] Collection tags considered problematic (was: "mis" update review request)

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Sat Apr 14 04:06:56 CEST 2007


Peter Constable scripsit:

> At one point early in our involvement with ISO 639, Gary Simons and
> I suggested that the collections be given extensional definitions,
> as has been done with macrolanguages (in the macrolanguage mapping
> table). But as our interest was in coverage for individual languages
> and no in the collections, we didn't take any interest in pursuing
> either evaluating the merits or getting that implemented.

Your obsolete-but-still-interesting cut at that is still online at
www.ethnologue.com/14/iso639 .

Reminder: in addition to replacing "(Other)" with "languages", 'bih' and
'him' should be updated to add "languages".

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