Re: language identifiers - iso 639

From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Date: Sat Sep 16 1995 - 18:45:13 EDT

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Unfortunately, the Ethnologue data base is very inconsistent in the
definition of `language' and what it contains. Look what they do to
`german' and consult any textbook about german language and dialectology
(e.g. dtv Atlas der deutschen Sprache) to see what I mean.

--J"org Knappen.

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