Re: [geolang-comment] what is a language

[Murray Altheim <m.altheim@open.ac.uk>]

John Cowan wrote:

[...]
>>They have URLs for each country like
>>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Norway
>>but not for each language. We should ask them to continue with
>>URL-per-language.
> 
> Sure they have:  http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ENG
> is a PSI for English.
> 
> Similarly, http://www.ethnologue.com/show_iso639.asp?code=eng is
> a PSI for the (synonymous) 639 code "eng".


John,

What do think about the idea of creating a set of PSIs for the
SIL language codes? I mean, not from a technical standpoint but
in terms of practicality, political issues, usefulness, etc.?
Like I said, I'm certainly willing to do the work, but not if
nobody but a few people would accept it. Would SIL? I don't
know much at all about the insides of the organization.

Murray

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