- From: Tex Texin <tex@xencraft.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:22:57 -0800
- To: Jony Rosenne <rosennej@qsm.co.il>
- CC: 'IETF Languages' <ietf-languages@iana.org>, www-international@w3.org
thanks Jony, that is rather what I expected. I imagine the list of subtags that could be used with yi, might be very long... Jony Rosenne wrote: > > > 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, ... > > - whatever is the current practice, there is a long history and much legacy > texts. > > Jony
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