2018年1月23日 00:27 於 "Steven White" <Koala19890(a)hotmail.com> 寫道:
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Teochew: Currently on hold due to no
ISO code.
Code was rejected at SIL in 2009. At the time, SIL expressed some
sympathy for the idea of retiring "nan" and splitting it. But as the code
request did not cover the full breadth of "nan", the request was rejected.
There has been no recurrent request, to the best of my knowledge. Suggest
reject per policy, with an invitation to create a new request if a code is
ever created.
Note that, in Wikimedia's language proposal policy, the reason being put
forth for reqiring an ISO 639-3 code for the language is that, "*The
information that distinguishes this language from another must be
sufficient to convince standards organizations to create an ISO 639 code.*".
In this case, the standardizing body is convinced that the language is
sufficiently unique, despite they're not able to create the code due to
problems of other nan variant. Which mean the underlying rationale behind
the reason for requesting a ISO639 code is fulfilled despite the lack of
code.
As, in the language proposal policy, it is said that "The committee can
skip steps in the procedure if they consider a request to have already met
the objectives of those steps.", I would suggest member of language
committee consider marking Teochew as eligible according to this principal.