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Re: [Ltru] Preferred Values for Irregular Tags



Debbie Garside scripsit:

> 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.

We just don't know enough, and probably never will, to figure out whether
the top-level split in Celtic is between Continental (Gaulish, Lepontic,
Celtiberian) and Insular (Brythonic and Goedelic), as shown here and at
Ethnologue, or whether it's between P-Celtic (Celtiberian and Brythonic)
and Q-Celtic (Gaulish and Goedelic).

So one has to choose.

-- 
John Cowan   http://ccil.org/~cowan    cowan at ccil.org
In might the Feanorians / that swore the unforgotten oath
brought war into Arvernien / with burning and with broken troth.
and Elwing from her fastness dim / then cast her in the waters wide,
but like a mew was swiftly borne, / uplifted o'er the roaring tide.
        --the Earendillinwe
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