ISO 639 name changes: a general correction

[Don Osborn]

As the boundary between what is a “language” and what is a “dialect” is open
to discussion, I imagine that the line between “macrolanguage” and “language
group” (=? “language cluster”?) is hard to fix. 

 

My question in all of this is whether these changes alter how these codes
can be used in ICT. For instance, one could in theory write a locale for znd
(now “Zande languages”) or  bin (Edo/Bini) – not proposing that (and don’t
speak these languages) but rather am asking what the implications of these
changes are for localization.

 

TIA


 

Don Osborn

Bisharat.net

PanAfrican Localisation project

 

 

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Håvard Hjulstad
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:12 AM
To: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee; iso639 at dkuug.dk; iso639-2 at loc.gov;
IETF Languages Discussion
Subject: ISO 639 name changes: a general correction

 

I have circulated a number of announcements with the following statement:

"The implication of this change is that the item is considered a language
group rather than an individual language."

 

Instead of "language group" I should have used the term "macrolanguage".

 

Best regards,

Håvard Hjulstad

(secretary ISO 639 RA-JAC)

 

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