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Re: [Ltru] ISO 639 language code addition rules...



Peter Constable scripsit:

> Between 639-5 and 639-3, it looks like 639-2 would be redundant for
> our purposes.

Almost.  The four special code elements 'mis', 'mul', 'und', and 'zxx'
are in -2 but not -5 or -3, and in principle new code elements of this
type could be added to -2.  So we can't completely exclude adding subtags
from -2.

-- 
John Cowan    cowan at ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
        Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
        analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
                --E.H. Sturtevant, ca. 1945, probably at Yale
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