be-tarask language subtag registration form

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 22:02:14 CEST 2007


Hoi,
The languages spoken in Belarus according to Ethnologue: 
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=BY
The Ethnologue information on this language: 
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bel

Ergo, the Belarus Latin orthography does not have an ISO-code.

Thanks,
    Gerard


Ihar Hrachyshka schreef:
> У Суб, 31/03/2007 у 13:05 +0200, GerardM піша:
>   
>> Hoi,
>> If that is the case then maybe. In the WMF we have had two groups of
>> people who were bringing conflicting information. I am not convinced
>> about the information provided. If anything, this is the kind of issue
>> where the notions of ISO-639-6 would help. Dealing with this in
>> isolation is imho a bad idea. 
>>
>> It has also been said that there are three orthographies.. the third
>> has not been discussed at all. 
>>     
> As I know Belarusian Latin script has benn already given a ISO code.
>   
>> I would urge restraint and have someone who is knowledgeable about
>> this whole issue report on this before you would accept any code. I
>> would also make sure that there are acceptable names for these
>> orhtographies in Belarus. Be aware that we can get ourselves in
>> diplomatic hot water about this. 
>>
>> Thanks,
>>      Gerard
>>
>> On 3/31/07, Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote: 
>>         zedlik wrote:
>>         
>>         > in Internet Taraskievica is used much oftener than
>>         Narkamauka
>>         
>>         If that's the case it could be better to register both
>>         variants,
>>         maybe using "1933" or "1959" for the official orthography.
>>         
>>         The application I've in mind are spell checkers, they could
>>         ask 
>>         the user or pick a user defined default for "be" texts without
>>         variant, and otherwise they'd use "tarask" vs. "1993" or
>>         "1959".
>>         
>>         Frank



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