ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Thu Nov 6 15:22:16 CET 2008


CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail dot com> wrote:

> Basically I like Doug's suggestions for comments and also Debbie's 
> that we wait before implementing any suggestions for comments.

My suggestion was that we do not need any additional comments.  The 
Description fields should speak for themselves in this case.

> I do have a slight problem with specifying Moldovan as just an 
> alternate name for Romanian because, as I understand things, it is 
> Romanian as spoken in Moldova. But otherwise fine!

That's exactly what we do with "Dutch" and "Flemish", again reflecting 
the ISO 639 names.  Flemish is Dutch as spoken in Belgium.

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