Last call: Latvian (and Bontok) extlang subtags

Leif Halvard Silli xn--mlform-iua at xn--mlform-iua.no
Mon Feb 8 01:22:58 CET 2010


Doug Ewell, Sun, 7 Feb 2010 15:26:20 -0700:
> Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
> 
>>> (2) Whether three new extended language subtags shall be created for 
>>> Northern Bontok ("bnc-rbk"), Central Bontok ("bnc-lbk"), and 
>>> Southwestern Bontok ("bnc-vbk"), which are new ISO 639-3 code 
>>> elements encompassed by Bontok ('bnc'), recently reclassified as a 
>>> macrolanguage and renamed from "Central Bontoc."
>> 
>> Logically I must also approve this.
> 
> Not so.
 ...
> I agree with Kent that nobody seems to have argued in favor of adding 
> extlangs for the three Bontok languages, since there is apparently no 
> evidence of widespread use of "bnc" for all of these.  (Anyone with 
> evidence to the contrary should obviously speak up!) 

Technicality: I suppose the could be "promoted" to extlang status later 
on, if evidence surfaced that showed that it falls into at least one of 
the two categories you mentioned?
-- 
leif halvard silli


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