Re: [geolang-comment] what is a language

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

* John Cowan
| 
| Right, that is SIL's definition but not ISO 639's, unfortunately.

Yes. Having a definition of language and using it systematically would
not have hurt ISO 639 at all...
 
| Sure they have: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ENG
| is a PSI for English.

Well, no. It is certainly a subject indicator for English, but not a
published one. A resource becomes a subject indicator by being used as
one, but it only becomes a published subject indicator if its
publisher publishes it for that use. 

Your point is still valid, though.
 
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