[Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 08:59:53 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 08:03, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Macro languages are nicely defined. They are languages that used to be
> recognised at one time as a single language but are found to be a
> combination of multiple languages. Kicking the idea of macro-languages is
> daft; it is not only a result of the work of SIL it is more the consequence
> of the work of the maintainers of the iso-639-1 and the iso-639-3.

If you've read definition at SIL [1], you would know that it is just
the first paragraph of the definition.

[1] http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/scope.asp#M



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