Request of new variant subtag for kichwa (inside qu)

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Tue Jun 7 23:47:06 CEST 2011


Kent Karlsson scripsit:

> But we have:
> 
> Type: variant
> Subtag: pinyin
> Description: Pinyin romanization
> Added: 2008-10-14
> Prefix: zh-Latn
> Prefix: bo-Latn

Formally, that's correct.  But the 'pinyin' subtag really specifies a
variant of the orthography rather than of the macrolanguage itself.

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