Language for taxonomic names, redux

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
wrote:

No; Germans will very likely say [tsitʀo] and not [ˈsɪtɹoʊ]. That’s not
> just “accent”.
>

The difference between [ˈwɔːtə] and [ˈwɒɾɚ] is just accent, despite having
only one phone in common.

Splendid, but this does not answer the question. There are surely different
> pronunciations common for these, differing from country to country and
> language to language. What prefix or prefixes would you intend this subtag
> to be used with?
>

Surely "Prefix: la" is correct, which allows any nationality tag.  In
practice, a nationality tag with "la" of any sort will be used only to tag
speech recordings:  one may *speak* Latin according to the German
pronunciation, but one does not *write* Latin according to the German
pronunciation, one simply writes Latin.  The same is true of every
classical language.

-- 
My .sigs are from my large and miscellaneous reading both on and off the
net.
Occasionally I hear one viva voce or make one up (without attribution,
of course).  I try to stay within the McQuary limit, but sometimes fail,
as in this case.  In general, the quotes are chosen at random by a script
from <http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/signatures>, but sometimes I choose one
on purpose.  I've been collecting and using them for 30+ years.
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