ISO 639 name changes: a general correction

[Håvard Hjulstad]

Dear all,
 
Sometimes you are right, sometimes you are wrong in thinking that you are wrong...
 
I am very sorry for any confusion that I may have caused. Please disregard the message below.
 
The items that this concerns, are considered language groups by the Joint Advisory Committee. As most things in the context of language identification, there are no absolute distinctions. We are, however, trying to be as consistent as we can. There will be coming up some items that relate to macrolanguages as well. What we are doing right now, is to "cleen up" some details before the official release of ISO 639-3, which is pretty much ready for publication as International Standard.
 
I shall try to keep the terminology straight in the future.
 
Best regards,
Håvard
 
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Håvard Hjulstad
Standard Norge / Standards Norway
mailto:hhj at standard.no
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Fra: Håvard Hjulstad
Sendt: fr 2007-01-05 15:12
Til: 'ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee'; 'iso639 at dkuug.dk'; 'iso639-2 at loc.gov'; 'IETF Languages Discussion'
Emne: 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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