One language, one subtag

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
You are formally right ...
Thanks,
    Gerard

Doug Ewell schreef:
> I wrote:
>
>> Not even that.  We don't register macrolanguages per se; what we do 
>> is register primary language subtags, some of which correspond to ISO 
>> 639-3 macrolanguages.  The only difference between these and all the 
>> other primary language subtags is that some (but not all) of them may 
>> be followed by an extended language subtag.
>
> Actually, all of this is premature.  Until RFC 4646bis is completed 
> and approved, all we can do with regard to language subtags is:
>
> 1.  Register primary language subtags that appear in ISO 639-1 and -2, 
> with no consideration for, or awareness of, ISO 639-3.
>
> 2.  Create and register primary language subtags under very, very 
> exceptional circumstances which are unlikely ever to come to pass.
>
> We also:
>
> 3.  Create and register variant subtags.
>
> which are more or less directly associated with language.
>
> -- 
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