[Ltru] "X" vs. 'X (macrolanguage)"

["Doug Ewell" <dewell at roadrunner.com>]

As John pointed out, the first paragraph of Section 3.1.4 in 
draft-4646bis-10 disallows two or more "formatting variations of the 
same description," which basically means that for each subtag, either a 
non-inverted form like "Church Slavic" or an inverted form like "Slavic, 
Church" is allowed, but not both.

For 4645bis, I will be adding only the non-inverted forms of language 
subtags taken from the ISO 639-3 files, and will uninvert the existing 
descriptions ("Sotho, Southern") or remove inverted forms where both 
currently exist ("Ndebele, North" and "North Ndebele") for consistency.

There's only one source of major duplication in the Registry now, and 
that involves the language names that exist as both a macrolanguage and 
an individual language.  Swahili is an example:

Id Part2B Part2T Part1 Scope Language_Type Ref_Name Comment
swa swa swa sw M L Swahili (macrolanguage)
swh    I L Swahili (individual language)

When the individual languages are listed in the current Registry, they 
naturally do not have the word "(macrolanguage)" in their description:

Type: language
Subtag: sw
Description: Swahili
Added: 2005-10-16
Suppress-Script: Latn

I've been assuming that the only solution is to keep both names, putting 
the 639-3 name first, because we wanted to keep the 639-1 and/or -2 name 
as well:

Description: Swahili (macrolanguage)
Description: Swahili

But because of the no-inversion rule, it turns out we will be getting 
rid of some of the 639-1/-2 names anyway (see "Sotho, Southern" above). 
Is it still necessary to list both "X" and "X (macrolanguage)" as in the 
Swahili example above?

--
Doug Ewell  *  Fullerton, California, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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