Re: ISO 639-2 3-letter language codes and RFC 1766

On Jan 21,  2:47pm, Marion Gunn wrote:

> With ref to <http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso639/dis639-2-en.html>:
> gdh gae Gaelic (Scots)
> sco sco Scots
>
> The word in parentheses above should be "Scottish", rather than "Scots" .

I dispute that. I have always heard the language referred to as Scots Gaelic,
never Scottish Gaelic.

I appreciate that there is the potential of confusion with the entirely
different language Scots, but there we are.




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