Re: [Ltru] Disambiguating specific and generic names

["Mark Davis" <mark.davis at icu-project.org>]

Functionally in the registry, X is a macrolanguage iff it has at least one extlang. Macrolanguages that don't have any extlangs behave precisely the same as non-macro languages, so as far as the registry is concerned there is no functional difference.

So the only issue is whether there could be confusion between two language tags (not including extlangs) that would be cleared up by adding the extra paranthetical to one of them that it is a macro language. So you might look to see if there are any such cases.

Mark

On 10/15/06, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

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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John Cowan     cowan at ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
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