[Foundation-l] languages with INVENTED codes

[Tim Starling]

Crazy Lover wrote:
> I add (In language Proposal policy - communiy draft) a clause is for
> languages with active wikis, but which Code has been invented: voro
> (fiu-vro), tarantino (roa-tara), Cantonese (zh-yue), min nan
> (zh-min-nan) , etc.

zh-min-nan was indeed invented by a Wikipedian, but he went to the trouble
of getting it approved by IANA, in 2001:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-tags/zh-min-nan

We have to give him credit for that.

zh-yue is also an approved RFC 4646 language tag. The other two you
mention really are invented. Voro, fiu-vro, appears to have been made
obsolete by the ISO 639-3 code "est", so the wiki can be moved now.
Tarantino, roa-tara, doesn't appear to have any valid RFC 4646 code, so we
should probably apply to IANA to create one. There is an ISO 3166-2 region
code for Taranto (IT-TA), but RFC 4646 doesn't seem to allow them.

-- Tim Starling