Re: [Ltru] Data update from ISO 639-5 to draft-4645bis

["Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>]

Kent Karlsson <kent dot karlsson14 at comhem dot se> wrote:

> > 2. 'day' for "Land Dayak languages" has been added.  Since it was
>
> Side remark: I have seen translations of this one as just "Dayak". But 
> the Land Dayak languages appears to be a subset of the Dayak 
> languages. At least according to Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayak_languages,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidayuh.
> (In addition there is the retired code dyk for Land Dayak 
> [languages]...)

At this point, as editor of the draft, I'm primarily interested in how 
the various ISO 639-* parts categorize and name the languages or groups 
and what the code elements are.  If there are "better" categories or 
"better" names, I don't really want to know about them right now. :-)

'dyk' just looks to me like a duplicate that was recognized and retired.

> I think this holds also for "chs", Chumash, which I gather is the code 
> that is referred to in "1 retirement of a code element representing a 
> language family whose constituents were already present in [the] code 
> set. This code element will be recommended for inclusion in ISO 
> 639-5". See 
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/639-3_ChangeRequests_2008_Sum&add.pdf. 
> (But at the moment chs is not covered by any part of 639, except as 
> "retired"...)

Same as above.  I would guess that 'chs' will appear in 639-5 sometime 
in the future, and so I would recommend against ietf-languages trying to 
register a variant for it.  But there is no work for LTRU to do here.

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