Valencian registration (Was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:15:18PM +0100,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote 
 a message of 18 lines which said:

> > 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
> > LEY ORGÁNICA 5/1982, DE 1 DE JULIO, DE ESTATUTO DE AUTONOMÍA DE LA
> > COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA [DOGV núm. 74, de 15 de julio]
> > http://www.gva.es/cidaj/cas/c-normas/5-1982.htm#9
> 
> It is not a description of the language, but a legal text saying that
> there is a language called "valenciano" ("Los dos idiomas oficiales de
> la Comunidad Autónoma son el valenciano y el castellano"). I would
> prefer a text describing the language and/or its differences with
> catalan.

I do not know if the language reviewer or the list ietf-languages has
a policy about using Wikipedia resources but the article
http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valenci%C3%A0 is very good and detailed
and seems to support the idea that there is something specific in
Valencià and therefore that a variant subtag is legitimate.