Kent Karlsson scripsit: > The 630-* ISO standards have a hierachy "baked in", though not > explicitly, until ISO 639-5:2008, Codes for the representation > of names of languages -- Part 5: Alpha-3 code for language families > and groups (which I haven't seen a copy of yet) The most recent version I know about is two years old, self-confessedly incomplete, and has 105 code elements, of which 53 are shared with 639-2. It is not clear why the nine remaining 639-2 collection code elements (bad, btk, day, ijo, kar, kro, nah, son, znd) do not appear. > The hierarchy is still implicit in parts 1-3 which have collection > codes (part 1 has only, if you pardon the expression, half-hearted > collection codes, zh and ar). Parts 1 and 3 have macrolanguage and individual language code elements. Part 2 has language collection and individual language code elements. > I understand that you do not want tags like gem-deu, but you seem > to want to have tags like zh-yue. For "identification purposes" > (as well as much else) the approach for both those examples seem > to be the same. Nobody treats all the Germanic languages as a single language for any purpose. Many people treat Chinese as a single language for many purposes or even for all purposes. -- John Cowan cowan at ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan This great college [Trinity], of this ancient university [Cambridge], has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, somewhere betwixt and between. --A.E. Housman _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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