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On 09/12/2000 10:00:34 AM "Christopher J. Fynn" wrote:
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>I think a clear distinction may need to be made between those languages
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> "Christopher J. Fynn" wrote:
> > In short I favour inclusion of codes for written languages in the Ethnolouge
> > list which are currently missing in ISO 639 (and the requirement for a certain
> > number of publications does not seem too onerous) - but do
"Christopher J. Fynn" wrote:
> I think a clear distinction may need to be made between those languages which
> are commonly written and those which are (largely) only spoken. Outside the
> realm of specialised applications for linguists, most applications currently
> only deal with written langu
Tuesday, September 12, 2000
Last Friday was International Literacy Day here at LC. SIL was among
those distributing literature here. From it I gather their goal is to
define and implement writing systems for many presently unwritten
languages a
In principle I think making the set of ISO 639 language tags more
comprehensive is a good idea.
However there are a couple of concerns I have:
I think a clear distinction may need to be made between those languages which
are commonly written and those which are (largely) only spoken. Outside t
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