Addison Phillips scripsit: > #. Use specific language subtags or subtag sequences in preference to > subtags for language collections. A "language collection" is a subtag > derived from one of the ISO 639-2 codes that represents multiple related > languages. For example, the code 'nai' represents "North American > languages". The registry contains values for the specific languages > represented by this collective code. For example 'xxx' (language1) and > 'yyy' (language2). All well and good, except that it provides no definite guidance on which language subtags are for collections. Deprecating them does. > Note that these languages are otherwise unrelated. Not always true. Indeed, I would say that the bulk of the 639-2 collection code elements do in fact represent either genetic subgroups or genetic subgroups with some languages or sub-subgroups removed. > I wouldn't have a problem with deprecating these codes. All right then. :-) > Should we provide a list of Prefix values? I don't understand. Do you mean a list of Preferred-Value values? I'd say no; the collective subtag 'map', "Austronesian (Other)", encompasses 1038 languages in Ethnologue-14, and the list may well have grown since then. Furthermore, it is highly subject to change as additional Austronesian languages are added or even removed due to advances in knowledge. -- If you have ever wondered if you are in hell, John Cowan it has been said, then you are on a well-traveled http://www.ccil.org/~cowan road of spiritual inquiry. If you are absolutely cowan at ccil.org sure you are in hell, however, then you must be on the Cross Bronx Expressway. --Alan Feuer, NYTimes, 2002-09-20 _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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