Third correction to 'ao1990' : Prefix field - addition of 'gl'

Duncan MacKenzie duncan at duncanmacweb.com
Fri May 15 16:33:56 CEST 2015


Thank you for setting out these two amendments, Luc. As previously noted on this list, I support these, for precisely the reasons you state. 
 
Best, 
Duncan 
 
> On 15 May 2015, at 14:11, Luc Pardon <lucp at skopos.be> wrote: 
> 
> Below is the registration form to request yet another correction to the 
> current registration of 'ao1990', namely the addition of a "Prefix : 
> gl", so that this variant subtag can be used for tagging documents in 
> the Galician language that are written according to the Portuguese 
> orthography convention of 1990. 
> 
> This request is in addition to the two earlier change requests, i.e. the 
> spelling correction as requested by Doug and the replacement of the 
> three current "pt-XX" prefixes by a single "Prefix: pt" field, as 
> requested by me. These changes have been incorporated in the proposed 
> "registration" form below, and I have also ventured to propose a 
> suitable "modifiation" form. 
> 
> As there was no controversy when I raised the issue of "Galician in 
> AO1990" on the list on 26-03-2015, I have kept the form short. Therefore 
> a few comments may be in order. 
> 
> 1. The newspaper mentioned is the "Novas da Galiza", website 
> http://www.novasgz.com. 
> 
> Their decision to adopt AO1990 can be confirmed by a search like this: 
> 
> "Acordo Ortográfico" 1990 site:www.novasgz.com 
> 
> 
> 2. From what I read, Galician is so close to Portuguese that it is/was 
> debated whether it is a dialect or a separate language. 
> 
> From a tagger's viewpoint, it should be enough that there is a separate 
> language subtag for Galician in the registry to justify an additional 
> prefix, so that "gl-ao1990" can be used if desired. 
> 
> Indeed, given that Galician and Portuguese are so close, it makes 
> perfect sense for users of Galician to adopt a suitable (and available) 
> convention like AO1990 for writing it. 
> 
> The fact that such adoption has actually happened is only an additional 
> reason to provide a proper tagging mechanism for it. 
> 
> 
> Luc Pardon 
> 
> ================================================= 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION 
> File-Date: 2015-05-06 
> %% 
> Type: variant 
> Subtag: ao1990 
> Description: Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Acordo 
> Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990) 
> Added: 2015-xx-xx 
> Prefix: pt 
> Prefix: gl 
> Comments: Portuguese orthography conventions established in 1990 but 
> not brought into effect until 2009 
> 
> --- 
> 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 
> 
> 1. Name of requester: Luc Pardon 
> 
> 2. E-mail address of requester: lucp at skopos.be 
> 
> 3. Record Requested: 
> 
> Type: variant 
> 
> Subtag: ao1990 
> 
> Description: Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Acordo 
> Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990) 
> 
> Prefix: pt 
> Prefix: gl 
> 
> Comments: Portuguese orthography conventions established in 1990 but not 
> brought into effect until 2009 
> 
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: 
> 
> Denotes Portuguese orthography conventions established in 1990. 
> 
> 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): 
> 
> 6. Any other relevant information: 
> 
> This change request is for the addition of a "Prefix: gl" to the current 
> registration. 
> 
> The Portuguese Wikipedia article on the Acordo Ortográfico (supplied as 
> reference with the original registration of the 'ao1990' variant subtag) 
> states that at least one newspaper in the Galician language has adopted 
> this convention since 2011. 
> 
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