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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