Language Subtag Registration
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Tue Oct 13 04:08:32 CEST 2015
Is there a standard Canadian abbreviation for Newfoundland?
Apart from “Newfie”. ;-)
Newflnd or Newfland would be clearest. I have seen Nfld of course.
> On 12 Oct 2015, at 18:55, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> I think the denoted variant is perfectly reasonable to add, but as mentioned, the syntax requires a longer subtag, even though "nfld" is a conventional abbreviation for Newfoundland. What about "nflnd"?
>
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Phillips, Addison
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 10:08 AM
> To: Marc Moisan <webmaster at moisan.ca>; ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: RE: Language Subtag Registration
>
> Nfld is too short. It needs to be at least five letters (or four numbers) to make a valid subtag.
>
> Addison.
> ________________________________________
> From: Ietf-languages [ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] on behalf of Marc Moisan [webmaster at moisan.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 6:10 PM
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Language Subtag Registration
>
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
>
> 1. Name of requester: Marc Moisan
> 2. E-mail address of requester: webmaster @ moisan.ca
> 3. Record Requested:
>
> Type: variant
> Subtag: nfld
> Description: Newfoundland English
> Prefix: en-CA
>
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
>
> The subtag is intended to represent the dialect of Canadian English spoken in the
> province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Sometimes referred as "Newfinese" the dialect
> differ substantially from the English commonly spoken elsewhere.
>
> 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or
> article):
>
> W.J. Kirwin, G.M. Story and J.D.A. Widdowson, eds. "Dictionary of Newfoundland English",
> 2nd ed. (University of Toronto Press, 1990). [ISBN: 978-0802068194]
>
> Nellie P. Strowbridge, "The Newfoundland Tongue" (St. John's, NL:
> Flanker Press, 2008).
> [ISBN: 978-1897317235]
>
> R.A. Bragg, "Traditional Newfie Talk: The First English Language of North America"
> (Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing, 2015). [ISBN: 978-1771083034]
>
> 6. Any other relevant information:
>
> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_English
>
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