Re: [Ltru] Preferred Values for Irregular Tags

["Debbie Garside" <debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk>]

Within ISO FDIS 639-6 data the hierarchy is as follows:

 

ineu	wrld	Indo-European
cltc	ineu	Celtic
cclc	cltc	Celtic Continental
lptc	cclc	Lepontic
glsh	cclc	Gaulish
xcg	glsh	Cisalpine Gaulish
xtg	glsh	Transalpine Gaulish

 

If anyone has any comments/better ideas now is the time to say so as I am just putting the final touches to the data.

 

best

 

Debbie

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From: ltru-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Davis
Sent: 08 May 2008 14:52
To: John Cowan
Cc: LTRU Working Group
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Preferred Values for Irregular Tags

That was caught - see my later message.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:05 PM, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

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

--
Mark

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