Re: Two Languages: One ISO-639-# code

2015-05-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:14 AM, toki toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/05/2015 10:20, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: So in ISO 639-X the most accurate you can pinpoint it is xo and then xho. And in glotolog; you have mpon1252 as its most precise denominator. Now as it *happens* -

Re: Two Languages: One ISO-639-# code

2015-05-20 Thread toki
On 20/05/2015 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: 1. I have no idea what anyone in this thread is talking about, but it does sound important. It is about adding AOo support for minority languages that are threatened, extinct, or dead. Rephrased: Implementing full and complete support in AOo for languages

Re: Two Languages: One ISO-639-# code

2015-05-19 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
In testing out various grammar and spell checkers, I've come across a couple of instances, where different languages/dialects share the same ISO-639-# code. Can you give an example - to understand this better ? Or do you mean collective -1 (e.g. zh) or -2 codes (e.g. chi or zho) v.s. -3

Re: Two Languages: One ISO-639-# code

2015-05-19 Thread toki
On 19/05/2015 10:20, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: So in ISO 639-X the most accurate you can pinpoint it is xo and then xho. And in glotolog; you have mpon1252 as its most precise denominator. Now as it *happens* - this language is spoken in an area fully covered by a single country - so

Re: Two Languages: One ISO-639-# code

2015-05-19 Thread toki
On 19/05/2015 08:05, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: In testing out various grammar and spell checkers, I've come across a couple of instances, where different languages/dialects share the sam e ISO-639-# code. Can you give an example ISO 639-1 is xo ISO 639-2 is xho ISO 639-3 is xho

Re: Two Languages: One ISO-639-# code

2015-05-19 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 19 May 2015, at 11:52, toki toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/05/2015 08:05, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: In testing out various grammar and spell checkers, I've come across a couple of instances, where different languages/dialects share the same ISO-639-# code. Can you give

Two Languages: One ISO-639-# code

2015-05-18 Thread toki
All: In testing out various grammar and spell checkers, I've come across a couple of instances, where different languages/dialects share the same ISO code. IOW: The _current_ ISO 639-1, ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3, ISO 639-4, ISO 639-5, and ISO 639-6 codes are the same. They do have different Glottolog