2012/2/17 Peter Wendorff <[email protected]>: > Hi Brian. > > I would simply pull these information from Wikipedia, where the > Country-Template includes the official language. Therefore it should be > straight forward to fetch them - automatically or manually. > > Nevertheless the question is: What about countries with more than one > official language?
What is the "official language"? This is not always unambigous for every part of the national territory. Even in Germany with few minorities there are exceptions (e.g. [1] de: "Mittlerweile lautet der § 184 des Gerichtsverfassungsgesetzes: „Die Gerichtssprache ist deutsch. Das Recht der Sorben, in den Heimatkreisen der sorbischen Bevölkerung vor Gericht sorbisch zu sprechen, ist gewährleistet.“ -> In areas with a majority of Sorbs [2] they have the right to speak Sorbian at court). cheers, Martin [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorben#Rechtliche_Grundlagen [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
