RE: Language Identifier List up for comments

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> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:42 PM
> To: Tex Texin
> Cc: IETF Languages; www-international@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Language Identifier List up for comments
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> Tex Texin scripsit:
> 
> > 2) What to do about yiddish? It is spoken in many places. 
> Any idea whether it
> > is the same everywhere or not?
> 
> Yiddish for many years had no written standard, but now it does,
> and almost everyone writing Yiddish has adopted it.  (The _Forverts_,
> the weekly Yiddish newspaper of New York City, was about the last
> holdout.)

- except for Israeli Yiddish users (I had an e-mail from an American Yiddish
expert who explained that they don't count because they are influenced by
Hebrew).

- except for the Soviet Yiddish, which used a very different orthography,
such as עמעס instead of אמת.

- whatever is the current practice, there is a long history and much legacy
texts.

Jony

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