Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing dot co dot uk> wrote: > Are there likely to be additional Macrolanguages created in the > future? During the 2007 review period, ISO 639-3 reclassified two individual languages into macrolanguages (kln, luy) and changed the list of encompassed languages for four other macrolanguages (gba, hmn, msa, zha). Most of these membership changes were secondary effects of the encompassed languages having being split or merged. They rejected one additional request to reclassify (kha) to a macrolanguage, instead creating the Khasi/Lyngngam quasi-narrowing situation that we talked about at length. They did not create any new macrolanguages from scratch, nor delete any, though in theory that would be possible. I have no reason to think this will not happen again during 2008 and beyond. RFC 4646bis will follow all of these ISO 639-3 changes; unlike extlangs, the Macrolanguage field is meant to correlate 1-to-1 with ISO 639-3. -- Doug Ewell * Arvada, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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