[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] vro

[Marcus Buck]

I am happy, that Voro got its own code and I fully support to move 
'fiu-vro' to 'vro'. But I think this also demonstrates, that ISO is to 
some degree out of touch with reality or at least quite inconsistent 
with its codes.
Why did they declare 'et' to be synonymous to the macrolanguage? 'et' 
was always intended to mean 'Standard Estonian' in earlier revisions of 
ISO 639 (cause ISO 639 was created in a time when non-standard languages 
and minorities did not or were not supposed to produce books [and the 
internet wasn't invented]. There was no need for codes other than 
standard languages). 'de' for example is synonymous to 'deu' (Standard 
German), although there are several codes like 'bar', 'gsw' or 'ksh' 
that would fit under the roof of a 'de' macrolanguage just in the same 
way as 'vro' fits under the roof of an 'et' macrolanguage. But they are 
handled differently nonetheless.
I oppose to move et.wikipedia to ekk.wikipedia and I think this would be 
a really bad service to the et.wikipedia community.

Marcus Buck

Gerard Meijssen hett schreven:
> Hoi,
> Congratulations.
>
> As a consequence of the recognition of the Võro language, the Estonian
> language with the codes est and et has been made a macro language. This
> macro language contains two languages, Võro and Standard Estonian. Standard
> Estonian has the code of ekk.
>
> It is appropriate to rename the et.wikipedia.org as a consequence.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=est
>
> 2009/1/21 Jüvä Sullõv <juvasul at ut.ee>
>