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Re: [Ltru] Preferred Values for Irregular Tags



Indeed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org]
> Sent: 09 May 2008 06:07
> To: Debbie Garside
> Cc: 'Mark Davis'; 'John Cowan'; 'LTRU Working Group'
> Subject: 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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