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



Martin Duerst <duerst at it dot aoyama dot ac dot jp> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.

I'd better go get the door.  Someone is banging on it and shouting,
"Montenegrin!  Montenegrin!"

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