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Re: [Ltru] RE: New item in ISO 639-2 - Zaza



Peter Constable scripsit:

> OK, you're saying we have an existing macrolanguage "Thuddian" with
> macrolanguage mappings to existing languages "Northern Thuddian" and
> "Southern Thuddian", and now we add a macrolanguage mapping from
> "Thuddian" to an entry (new or existing) "Thwackian".

Just so.

> That's not a scenario I was imagining -- haven't considered it, in fact.
> I was thinking of a case like Rawang: for now, there's only one entry,
> though we know it's highly likely it will get split out in the future;
> we just haven't had enough info on the varieties involved to create
> split entries yet. So, we have Rawang today as an individual language,
> and at some future point we have X, Y and Z, either deprecating Rawang
> or, probably more likely, with Rawang now as a macrolanguage
> encompassing X, Y and Z.
> 
> Your "Thwackian" scenario might have some issues for 3066ter; the Rawang
> scenario does not.

Agreed.

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service.  --Gandalf             John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>

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