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Re: [Ltru] Editor's copy of draft-4645bis-06



Doug Ewell wrote:
> Excellent they are.  Among other things, they show those of us who don't 
> know Indian languages that the "-i" ending in "Bihari" and "Himachali" 
> essentially means "languages."  This implies that any proposal to change 
> these descriptions to "Bihari languages" and "Himachali languages" 
> should first be reviewed by the Subcommittee on Redundancy 
> Subcommittee.

Even if that interpretation of "Himachali" and "Bihari" is true (which I
doubt a bit, they look like inflections rather than composite words; I guess
"Bihari people" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihari_people) does not mean
"Bihar languages people"...), that does not prevent the expressions "Himachal
languages" and  "Bihar languages" which conforms to the 639-2 rule (for
good or bad)...

	/kent k

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