- From: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar.bittersmann@web.de>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:38:45 +0200
- To: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > Aah... gsw. Swiss German. Added in 2006, according to the language > subtag registry. > > So why no use de-CH instead? Frank has pointed out the differences already. For a German, it would be no problem to unterstand 'de-CH', but hard to nearly unimpossible to understand Schwyzerdütsch 'gsw'. (People speaking 'gsw' are subtitled on DE/AT/CH TV channel 3sat.) > > "frs", "dsb", "lsb", etc. > Those are not the German language. (They are German/Germanic languages.) Lower Sorbian 'dsb' and Upper Sorbian 'lsb' are Slavic languages (related to Czech and Polish). Their macrolanguage tag is 'wen'. No way of tagging them de-something. Live long and prosper, Gunnar _______________________________________________________________________ Jetzt neu! Schützen Sie Ihren PC mit McAfee und WEB.DE. 30 Tage kostenlos testen. http://www.pc-sicherheit.web.de/startseite/?mc=022220
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