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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