Mark Davis scripsit:
> I don't see why that is necessary. The registry has the tag extlang,
> which tells us that knn is Konkani as an individual language. We hardly
> need a paranthetical to do that, because we have extlang.
The point here is to track 639-3 in the Description fields.
> I can tell that kok is Konkani as a macrolanguage simply by the fact
> that it
> is the prefix of some extlang (such as knn) in the repository.
In fact, you can't reliably do so, because encompassed languages
that have their own 639-2 tags (e.g. sr) are given language subtags,
not extlang subtags.
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