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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Fri Mar 6 18:10:00 +0000 2009 ------- Hi the Kichwa academy is located in Ambato, province of Chimborazo. http://www.dineib.edu.ec/kamak.htm However, Shukllachishka Kichwa (unified Kichwa) is a new ortography for all the Quichua dialects in Ecuador. There are plans for making Kichwa an official language, and a unified orthography is needed. So I wrote to SIL.org to open a new language identifier for the Unified Kichwa, but the answer was no: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/criteria2.html says quite clearly that new orthographies are not given new codes. In total, since 1) it seemed incorrect to assign the unified Kichwa to only one of the dialects and 2) Kichwa is [probably] becoming an official language for Ecuador, I assumed qu_EC would be the most accurate description. qu for "a Quechua dialect", EC for Ecuador. If we have to choose one specific dialect, I assume "qxl" would be closest due to the fact that it is the dialect spoken around Ambato, where the Kichwa academy is located. However, as stated above, the unified Kichwa is not pure Salasaca Quichua, but a unification. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambato compared to http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=EC and http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=que --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
