ISO 639-3 language codes posted

[John Cowan]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:17 PM, David Starner <prosfilaes at gmail.com> wrote:

Looking at a couple of the rejected slips, Pomeranian can probably be coded
> as nds-BR. Louisiana Spanish would need a separate tag; I don't think even
> subnational territory codes would be appropriate here, given that the
> dialects of Spanish spoken most commonly in Louisiana are probably more
> related to es-MX (and es-CU, maybe?) than to these native dialects. I'm not
> even sure they should be one tag, given the change request says "Autonym
> (self-name) for this language:


The new languages were rejected are pretty uniformly because they are
dialects, not languages.  I move that the Official Doug be asked to grab
these people's emails and send them a letter explaining what a variant tag
is, and suggesting that they (severally) apply for them.

-- 
John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
That you can cover for the plentiful and often gaping errors, misconstruals
and disinformation in your posts through sheer volume -- that is another
misconception.  --Mike to Peter
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