Appeal to ISO 639 RA in support of Elfdalian

Mats Blakstad mats.gbproject at gmail.com
Wed May 4 13:16:17 CEST 2016


I agree with Kent.

Maybe Ovansiljan could be considered as a macro-language, but not
Dalecarlian.

On 26 April 2016 at 00:44, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at telia.com> wrote:

>
> Note, however, that **modern** Dalecarlian is a (slight) dialect of
> **modern** Swedish. (The situation several hundred years ago was of
> course different.)
>
> /Kent K
>
> Den 2016-04-26 00:38, skrev "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>:
>
> > To add to the appeal:
>
> The Ethnologue previously had a code ³dlc² for what one
> > may suppose could now be described as a ³macrolanguage², Dalecarlian.
> The code
> > ³dlc² was removed when ISO 639-3 was implemented. The concept of
> > "macrolanguage² can be very useful where it indicates, for instance, an
> > orthography that is intended to serve a number of closely-related
> languages.
> > N¹Ko is an example: a compromise literary dialect used by a speakers of a
> > number of Manden languages. In the case of the area called Dalecarlia,
> there
> > are a number of dialects related to Elfdalian, but research has shown
> that all
> > of those have very small numbers of speakers, and that none of them has
> > established language associations or attempted revitalization activities.
> > Mutual intelligibility between these dialects is closer than some of the
> > speakers would probably credit if asked. There is no ³Dalecarlian² per
> se,
> > however, and Elfdalian will likely prove to be a magnet in the event that
> > speakers of the other dialects aim for revitalization. In any case, only
> one
> > three-letter code has been requested, for one language in active use.
> Other
> > codes can be added later for other languages if required.
> >
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