Review period; Nepali and Oriya

[John Cowan]

Mark Davis ☕ scripsit:

> For stability, it would be better to interpret each code when defined as
> the predominant form (eg Arabic = MSA), and then add additional language
> codes for mutually-incomprensible forms whenever they can be clearly
> identified. 

The only way to know if that promotes stability is to know what's been done.
If we know that "ar" has been used only for MSA in the past, then it's
stabilization to to interpret it so now.  If we know the opposite, then
it's stabilization to interpret it more widely now.  If we don't know,
we have to guess.

> Simply the fact that some Swiss German data in 2000 was tagged as 'de'
> shouldn't be taken as evidence that 'de' encompasses it; it was probably
> just the 'best available choice'.

I can't tell if this data is actual (and if so, what is it?) or hypothetical.

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