Correction for pinyin

[Michael Everson]

I don't think there is any need to do this, but I will not oppose it.

On 9 Mar 2010, at 17:17, Doug Ewell wrote:

> Below are a proposed record and registration form, submitted somewhat
> defensively, to use the Comments field instead of the Description for
> annotating the existing entry for the Pinyin language.
> 
> ---
> 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2010-03-24
> %%
> Type: language
> Subtag: pny
> Description: Pinyin
> Added: 2009-07-29
> Comments: a Niger-Congo language spoken in Cameroon; not to be confused
>  with the Pinyin romanization systems used for Chinese and Tibetan
> %%
> 
> ---
> 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 
> 1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
> 2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
> 3. Record Requested:
> 
>   Type: language
>   Subtag: pny
>   Description: Pinyin
>   Comments: a Niger-Congo language spoken in Cameroon; not to be
>     confused with the Pinyin romanization systems used for Chinese and
>     Tibetan
> 
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> 
> 5. Reference to published description
>   of the language (book or article):
> 
>   Ethnologue description at
>   http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pny
> 
> 6. Any other relevant information:
> 
>   The Pinyin language, spoken by ~24,600 people in Cameroon, is not
>   related to the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system used for writing
>   Chinese, or the Tibetan Pinyin romanization system used for writing
>   Tibetan, in the Latin alphabet.  These systems are represented by
>   the variant subtag 'pinyin'.
> 
> 
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> Doug Ewell  |  Thornton, Colorado, USA  |  http://www.ewellic.org
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> 
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