- From: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:19:57 -0800
- To: "IETF Languages" <ietf-languages@iana.org>, "WWW International" <www-international@w3.org>
> From: ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages- > bounces@alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Tex Texin > I hope others comment on this. If the two are distinct, then it is another > type > of ambiguity with tagging. > > tex > > Andrew Cunningham wrote: > > > ar-SD (Arabic) also this tag could be considered to be ambiguous .. is > > it the national language of Sudan (Standard Modern Arabic) or is it the > > Sudanese Arabic dialect? If you want to refer to Standard Arabic, use "ar". If Standard Arabic has a Sudan-specific variant (dialect or spelling differences), then use ar-SD. If what is intended is the vernacular Sudanese Spoken Arabic (perceived as a distinct language from Standard Arabic or the spoken varieties in other countries), then ISO 639-3 will provide a distinct alpha-3 ID, and I suggest that people wait to use that. Peter Constable
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