Are there languages with systematic color-naming
schemes, like computer hex codes for colours?
This reminds me of a certain all-vowel Japanese word,
and I think you know which word I mean.
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Ar 12:04 -0800 2000-09-13, scríobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In
the mean time there are people who need language identifiers for their
data. It's in the cases of the more familiar languages (many of them
European), that we may need special cases to deal with distinct notions
such as written vs. spoken
Here's another thing about the Ethnologue list that has been almost,
but not quite, addressed. Just so everyone knows, the point here is
*NOT* that the six or seven thousand additional languages in Ethnologue
are somehow not worthy of encoding, but that the list is incompletely
edited and not
Ar 08:46 -0800 2000-09-16, scríobh Doug Ewell:
Here's another thing about the Ethnologue list that has been almost,
but not quite, addressed. Just so everyone knows, the point here is
*NOT* that the six or seven thousand additional languages in Ethnologue
are somehow not worthy of encoding, but
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Doug Ewell wrote:
But it gets worse. When I stripped out the alternate-names field and
again checked for duplicated codes, I found 14 (AVL AYL CAG CTO FUV GAX
GSC GSW JUP MHI MHM MKJ SHU SRC). Some of these duplicates differ only
in spelling (CAG 'Chulupi' vs.
From: "John Cowan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems clear from the detailed information that in all 14 cases,
there is only one language, known by different names in different
countries. Expecting the Ethnologue to solve this problem by fiat,
or even to openly prefer one name over another
At 7:49 AM -0800 9/13/00, John Hudson wrote:
Otto Stolz wrote:
...
One of the criticisms of the Ethnologue raised at the conference, by Ken
Whistler, I believe, was that it only contains codes for living and
moribund languages, and that many hundreds of dead languages of interest to
scholars are
At 3:36 AM -0800 9/13/00, Michael Everson wrote:
Ar 14:43 -0800 2000-09-12, scríobh Kenneth Whistler:
BMP: real characters
Plane 1: complex characters
Plane 2: irrational characters
Plane 14: imaginary characters
A lovely taxonomy.
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