https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17592
--- Comment #3 from Purodha Blissenbach <bugzilla.wikime...@publi.purodha.net> 2009-02-22 02:08:45 UTC --- nds is a common code for a set of some 4000 diverse languages, as some scholar see it. About a dozen+ of those also have ISO codes on their own, several of which are again group codes (e.g. wep) while other are not (e.g. gro). Included are both living and extinct varieties. For various reasons none of the more distinctive codes are suited to identify any of our wiki projects, although they could, in theory, be used to be tagged onto pages or sequences of text here and there, which happen to be written in one of those specific varieties. Unfortunately, we have no good software support (yet) for such tagging. While all varieties of nds are astonishingly well mutually understandable when spoken (considering their wide geographic spread), when written, they follow either of two base orthographies, one Dutch-like, and another German-like, which makes written texts much harder to mutually compreend than spoken language. Hence the "schism" of nds-DE, and nds-NL in our wikis. Since our localizations are 100% written, it is justified, to distinguish orthographies. (Using ISO 3166 country codes to do so is not really. Following ISO 639 rules verbatim, we needed to apply for orthography subtags. Using country codes is, however, available in ISO 639 for geographic tagging, which in our case gives a 100% coincidence with the orhographic diversion. Although it's not its original purpose, it turns out usable for us) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
