> Naturally, there exists a grey area: is Danish so different from > Norwegian? While Bokmål and Danish as written languages are quite similar (for historical reasons), just some minor differences in vocabulary, spoken Danish and spoken Bokmål are quite different (and indeed the dialects of Danish are also quite varying, to the extent that some are nearly incomprehensible even to other Danes). A macrolanguage "dab" encompassing Danish and Bokmål, anyone... Or maybe one that covers "Scandinavian"? "Scandinavian" as an individual language is taught in Iceland, since Icelandic is not comprehensible by Scandinavians. I'm not actually proposing to register the abovementioned putative "macrolanguages" (neither as three- (in 639-3) nor five-letter (LSR only) code). But a code for "Scandinavian" as an individual language (used in Iceland & Scandinavia, for Icelanders communicating with Scandinavians, not among Icelanders) may be useful. A language ISO 639-3 seems to lack a code for... /kent k _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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