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Michael Everson Date: Mon Aug 9, 1999 1:57 pm Subject: Re: proper names | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ar 10:20 -0700 1999-08-08, scríobh Valerie Sutton: >Some of the SIL acronyms are not the way signers use them, and I would like >to write to the SIL to figure out a solution, which I am sure can be >done...they are wonderful and open-minded people. It doesn't matter. What the SIL does has nothing to do with ISO. It doesn't matter to me that people call American Sign Language ASL but that SIL has ASE. So far as I know, nobody uses the SIL acronyms but SIL. A simple table can express the differences. I have added a column showing "conventional" acronyms to my document (https://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso639/deaf.html). >And there are some countries that have more than one signed language...but >there are some countries that have more than one spoken language too...how >do you handle that at the ISO? For languages, ISO generally gives a code for each name. These codes are used in various ways. One might be to mark a library record to tell what language a book is written in (eng English, rus Russian). These codes are also used in internet searches, so you can search the word "gift" 'present' by specifying HTML documents written in English, and excluding Danish "gift" 'married' or German "Gift" 'poison'. A lot of standardization work will have to be done before that is possible, but applying for "sgn" in ISO 639-2 will be the first step. Modifications of this basic code, as shown in column 5 of my document.Other languages, like CHinese, also make use of this convention: chi-CN, chi-HK, chi-TW for China, Hong Kong, Taiwan orthographies. Where a country has more than one Sign Language, this is usually indicated by appending a regional modifier for the "less national" langauge. Examples: French Sign Language sgn-FR Lyons Sign Language sgn-FR-LYO Spanish Sign Language sgn-ES Catalonian Sign Language sgn-ES-CAT I've added a new section at the end of the document showing how Signed English and similar languages can be represented with the coding. -- Michael Everson * Everson Gunn Teoranta * https://www.indigo.ie/egt 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Ireland Guthán: +353 1 478 2597 ** Facsa: +353 1 478 2597 (by arrangement) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Co. Átha Cliath; Éire | ||||||||||||||||||||
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