John dot Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> wrote: > Quite right. In fact, 'xno' is apparently meant for the now extinct > Norman French once spoken in England, and does not cover Dgèrnésiais > and Jèrriais at all. Rather, the Ethnologue (and *a fortiori* ISO > 639-3) considers them varieties of "fr", like all the *langues d'oïl* > except Walloon and Picard (probably because those two have some > official status in Belgium). According to Wikipedia, "Dgèrnésiais is recognised (along with Jèrriais, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Manx and Scots (in Scotland and Northern Ireland)) as a regional language by the British and Irish governments within the framework of the British-Irish Council." So if it is true that Walloon and Picard are encoded separately because of their status in Belgium, BSI might consider that Dgèrnésiais and Jèrriais should benefit in a similar way. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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