Valencian Language Tag registration request

[Kent Karlsson]

Den 2009-06-17 04.04, skrev "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>:

> The ISO 639 RAs have assigned two names to this language -- "Catalan;
>
Valencian" -- an approach they have taken with other languages as well,
>
including Spanish and Dutch.  That should be sufficient.


Which brings us to the question what 'vls' (included in the
registry update that soon, hopefully, will be approved) stands for.

Type: language
Subtag: vls
Description: Vlaams

Compare:
Type: language
Subtag: nl
Description: Dutch
Description: Flemish

Note that "Vlaams" is the Dutch word for "Flemish". There
*may* be a linguistic distinction to be made (such as
West Flemish (West-Vlaams) vs. East Flemish (Oost-Vlaams)).
But that is far from clear from the ISO 639-3 descriptions.

I'm not suggesting that ietf-languages debates this, it is
an issue for the ISO 639-3 registration authority.

    /kent k