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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