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



>
> I agree about the probability of further registrations in 639-1.
> But my guess is that if anybody manages to get a 'new' language
> registered is 639-1, they will have a big interest to be able
> to use this two-letter code on the Internet.

The big problem is to get a language code that isn't already a three-letter code.

>
> Actually, I think the main reason for new 639-1 registrations
> will not be discoveries of new languages with big populations
> of speakers, but politically motivated splits and changes such
> as the Kroatian/Serbian case. I don't think it is possible to
> call such cases absurd. Even if we don't see such a case on
> the horizon, things can change quite quickly when they change.
> So I don't want to rule out further 639-1 registrations.

That's a very good point: "never" being, on average, a very long time.

Addison
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