Mark Davis scripsit:
> cel-gaulish
>
> it looks like this was intended to be what the ethnologue calls Brythonic:
Not at all. Brythonic is a child of Insular, which is a sib
of Continental. Ethnologue does not list any Continental
Celtic languages, because they are all long extinct. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages#Divisions for details:
some people disagree with this subdivision, and consider P-Celtic
vs. Q-Celtic a more important distinction than Continental vs. Insular.
The sub-registrar for ancient languages in 639-3 is Linguist List;
we could ask them what they recommend be done. (For example, Gaulish
could become a macrolanguage.)
> So we would need a new code, or ask ISO to add one. (Having codes for the
> families in the Ethnologue would be pretty handy; many exist, but many
> don't.)
That's the domain of ISO 639-5.
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some years ago
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