ISO 639-3 releases list of 2009 changes

[Mark Davis ☕]

You're missing (or at least not responding to) most of my message.

1) The ethnologue is not normative.
2) Even if "standard" were the touchstone, that would mean that English,
French, etc. could be redefined....

Mark


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 16:03, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> Mark Davis â?? scripsit:
>
> > The information in 639-3 about deu is:
> >
> > deudeu / ger* <#note> deGerman
> >
> > Identifier:deuName:GermanStatus:ActiveCode sets: 639-2/T and
> > 639-3Equivalents: 639-1: de
> > 639-2/B: ger <documentation.asp?id=ger>Scope:Individual
> <scope.asp#I>Type:
> > Living <types.asp#L>Denotation: See corresponding entry in
> > Ethnologue<http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=deu>
> > .
> >
> > That has:
> >
> > *Population <ethno_docs/introduction.asp#population>* 75,300,000 in
> Germany
>
> etc. etc. etc.  But you omit the most important bit, at the top, in
> Really Big Letters:
>
> German, Standard
>
> It's very unlikely that Standard German will be divided into different
> languages any time soon.
>
> --
> John Cowan    <cowan at ccil.org>     http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> But no living man am I!  You look upon a woman.  Eowyn I am, Eomund's
> daughter.
> You stand between me and my lord and kin.  Begone, if you be not deathless.
> For living or dark undead, I will smite you if you touch him.
>
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