be-tarask language subtag registration form

[Doug Ewell]

Peter's option B is the best choice -- identify the political issues so 
they can be discarded, then evaluate the request and accept (or reject) 
solely on the basis of language-identification issues.

I, for one, don't care if a group exists that wants its own Wiki page 
and the Wiki Foundation has said no.  That's not why we register 
subtags.

To me, the claims that Taraskievica should not be given a subtag because 
it doesn't reflect the "original" orthography as claimed brings to mind 
the disturbing debate over encoding Ol Chiki in Unicode, where some 
opponent groups claimed the Ol Chiki script encouraged non-standard and 
inferior grammatical usage and otherwise threatened the integrity of the 
Santali nation.  This sort of argument has no place here.  If 
Taraskievica is in use, and well enough documented for a subtag to have 
meaning, it ought to have a subtag.

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