On Nov 19, 2004, at 12:47 AM, Gerrit wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
I was unable to find als in a list of ISO 639-2 language codes.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ALS
ALBANIAN, GHEG: a language of Yugoslavia
Ethnologue uses SIL codes, not ISO 639-2. (SIL is the organization that produces Ethnologue.)
als is not an ISO 639-2 code; I foolishly created the pseudo-code out of thin air when creating the Allemanish wiki. This was a mistake because new codes may be assigned in the future which conflict with invented ones; since then our policy has been to use longer names when an official iso 639-1 (2-letter) or 639-2 (3-letter) code is not available, to avoid potential conflicts.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)