[geolang-comment] what is a language

["Bandholtz, Thomas" <Thomas.Bandholtz@koeln.sema.slb.com>]

The UNESCO Red Book of Dangered Languages is a true PSI source. Did someone
mention it before?

http://www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Redbook/index.html

They even have URLs (nor for each language mentioned, but try
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/europe_report.html#Romani)

I think this is pretty close to what we want to do. Well, not
machine-ledgible :-(

They seem to use a rather relaxed definition of what a "language" is, see:
*Germany*
Polabian 
Lower Sorbian 
Upper Sorbian 
Eastern Frisian 
Northern Frisian 
Dutch 
Low Saxon (Low German proper) 
Luxembourgian (Moselle Franconian) 
High German (proper) 
Alemannic (incl. Swiss German) [known as Swabian in Germany] 
Bavarian (incl. Austrian German) 
Danish 
Romani 
[Yiddish also reported] 

Thomas Bandholtz
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