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@ut.ee