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Subject: Re: [geolang-comment] what is a language
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 ...................................................................... Murray Altheim <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/> Knowledge Media Institute The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK In the evening The rice leaves in the garden Rustle in the autumn wind That blows through my reed hut. -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu
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