[Foundation-l] Community draft of language proposal policy

Jesse Plamondon-Willard pathoschild at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 03:06:08 UTC 2008


On 9/6/08, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> ISO-639-3 includes a code for Yinglish. If having an ISO-639-3 code
>  makes a language "Verified as eligible", I'm afraid for our future.

It was retired before ISO 639-3 was published, and even if it weren't
it would fail the requirement that it "be sufficiently unique that it
could not coexist on a more general wiki".

Identifier:	yib
Status:	Retired
Retirement remedy:	Merged into [eng]; entirely intelligible with English.
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=yib

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Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)




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