Criteria for languages?

[Michael Everson]

On 1 Dec 2009, at 20:35, John Cowan wrote:

> Except that Scots is co-official in Scotland and Latgalian is not
> co-official anywhere (though it is a recognized minority language),
> the parallel seems complete, and if "sco" is justified, so is "ltg".

Yes, but "eng" is not being considered a macrolanguage with "ens"  
introduced for Standard English.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/