Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Frisian problems

From: "Peter Constable" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:16:56 -0800

> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of John.Cowan

> An alternative is to change DIS 639-3 so that 'fry' is no longer a
> macrolanguage but simply the 639-3 code for Western Frisian

> I don't know how much turmoil that would cause with existing data.
> It may even be that the 639-2/RA assumed that 'fy'/'fry' already meant
> Western Frisian specifically.

The ISO 639 JAC is in the process of clarifying the documentation for 'fy'/'fry' in precisely this way, that the corresponding change will be made before 639-3 is published.‎

Peter Constable

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