Arne Goetje, 2008-10-27 14:27:23-0000: > Kaihsu Tai wrote: > > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nan > > While we are at it: > 1. ethnologue is not the authoritative data regarding language codes. > That's ISO 639-3.
Sorry, my fault. But the web version of Ethologue does show ISO 639-3 code on the top of the language page. > 2. There has been a proposal filed at ISO 639-3 to split the nan code > into dzu and xim, reflecting the Chaozhou and Xiamen dialects. As they > group the Taiwan dialect into the Xiamen group, we should probably use > xim_TW in future... ? ( > http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2008-083&lang=nan ) Indeed the language as spoken in Taiwan is in the Xiamen (Amoy = Ē-mn̂g) group. But we should only change the code from ‘nan’ to whatever when it becomes officially approved. Cheers! -- 2008-10-24/30 Disarmament Week http://www.un.org/disarmament/ -- Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
