Ietf-languages Digest, Vol 74, Issue 1

Debbie Garside debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk
Fri Feb 27 10:52:19 CET 2009


Hi Anthony

OK.  I will arrange a sample.  Any particular language family?

Best regards

Debbie
PS  We better take this off list now :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Anthony Aristar
Sent: 26 February 2009 15:09
To: debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk
Cc: ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: Ietf-languages Digest, Vol 74, Issue 1

Dear Debbie:

I think you might find mapping our data to your db more of a chore than 
you think.  The MultiTree database
currently has 47633 entries, so it is quite substantial...  I'd be 
interested to see a sample of your data before
we go any further.

All the best
Anthony

Debbie Garside wrote:
> Hi Anthony
>
> ISO FDIS 639-6 will be published shortly (within 4-5 weeks)!  The data
> supporting the standard includes many additional sub-grouping codes and
uses
> the alpha4 code space for new entries into the ISO 639 family.  I am sure
> that the names we have used and the mixing of geographical and genetic
> groupings etc. will also make you and your colleagues cringe - but there
is
> an old saying - you can please some of the people some of the time, and
some
> of the people all of the time but you cannot please all of the people all
of
> the time :-)
>
> However, that said, we currently have 26,000 linguistic entities and this
> will rise to 30,000+ when the project has been completed - later this
year.
> I am sure that this will keep linguists busy for a while and there will
also
> be scope for adding entities to ISO 639-6.  ISO 639-6 incorporates ISO
639-3
> and ISO 639-5 and is hierarchical in nature - mother/child/sibling
> relationships.
>
> It would have been nice to work with people on this but unfortunately a
lack
> of funds has meant that we could not provide the system for the public
> verification process as was first planned.  However, it is not too late
and
> if you send me your data I will endeavor to map it onto the standardized
> data and change names as appropriate.  Are you a splitter or a clumper :-)
>
> I will let you (and everyone else) know when the code becomes available -
> hopefully when the concept database comes on line later this year.
GeoLang
> Ltd is currently the proposed RA.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Debbie
> Editor ISO FDIS 639-6 
>
> Debbie Garside
> Managing Director
> GeoLang Ltd
> Corner House
> Barn Street
> Haverfordwest
> Pembrokeshire SA61 1BW
> Wales UK
>
> Tel: 0044 1437 766441
> Web: http://www.geolang.com 
>   
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Anthony Aristar
> Sent: 21 February 2009 14:51
> To: ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: Ietf-languages Digest, Vol 74, Issue 1
>
> Good to hear this, but unfortunately the ISO 639-5 standard is really a 
> problem. 
>
> First, it is, like the original 639-1, so small as to be relatively 
> useless.  The fact that it can be expanded through the normal change 
> process is not very useful:  it will take a *LONG* time to get 
> everything in that we as linguists need.  I might note that, as of 
> today, we are using well over 2200 subgrouping codes in our MultiTree 
> project--and the number keeps going up-- and the 110 codes that are in 
> the 639-5 set are a twentieth of that,   In addition, the code-set is a 
> mish-mash that is very reminiscent of the mess that ISO 639-1/2 were 
> before ISO 639-3 came along:  it has geographical groupings mixed up 
> with genetic groupings, for example, and some of the names used are  
> enough to make linguists cringe.
>
> Second, the use of Alpha-3 makes the codes easily confusable with ISO 
> 639-3 .  I know of at least one project that simply wont use them 
> because of this.
>
> Anyway, we need a real set of subgrouping codes, but to my knowledge the 
> attempt to produce one has stalled...
>
>   

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  Professor of Linguistics            Moderator, LINGUIST Linguistics
Program
Dept. of English                       aristar at linguistlist.org
Eastern Michigan University            2000 Huron River Dr, Suite 104
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
U.S.A.

URL: http://linguistlist.org/aristar/
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