Appeal to ISO 639 RA in support of Elfdalian
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Mon Apr 25 00:36:16 CEST 2016
On 24 Apr 2016, at 21:22, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com> wrote:
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> A further suggestion…
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> Suggest to the RA that they change the scope of “swe” to Macrolanguage, and have that macrolanguage entry encompass new entries for Elfdalian and Swedish proper.
I can only imagine years of discussion with the Swedish authorities who will not want to contemplate this.
On top of that Elfdalian is not a variety of Swedish. Both are descendents of Norse. So the classification would be linguistically wrong.
Michael Everson
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