Variant subtag proposal: Høgnorsk variety of Norwegian

[Kent Karlsson]

Den 2010-01-02 03.56, skrev "John Cowan" <cowan at ccil.org>:

> There was a minor kerfuffle on this list about traditional
> Scanian dialect.  Ethnologue gives it the code 'scy', but it
> is excluded from 639-3 (and a fortiori from the LSR).  See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanian_dialects for details.

scy is not a code in Ethnologue in its 16th edition.

Unfortunately that is not the end of "scy" (yet):
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2009-049&lang=scy.

I would not mind at all if a *language* code was assigned to
*Old* Scanian or (modern) Bornholmian. But *modern* Scanian is a
dialect of Swedish, and not the most distinctive one either.

You may even judge the seriousness of the proposal by reading the
email address of the proposer... "skanes_kung", "King of Skåne", as
a Hotmail address; there's a joker popping out of a box for you!

    /kent k

PS
I'm a bit disappointed with the Swedia site (http://swedia.ling.gu.se/).
Coming from "outside" and sticking a microphone in someone's face
does not encourage the subjects to *really* speak their dialect...