Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] ISO 639-3 changes, part 3

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:49:40 -0700

Kent Karlsson wrote:

> Does this mean that
>
> Subtag: arevela
>
> [and]
>
> Subtag: arevmda
>
> should be deprecated (with the latter referencing hyw as preferred)?

Possibly, if Michael agrees that the introduction of 'hyw' means that
'hy' is now narrowed to Eastern Armenian. Traditionally, the meaning of
subtags was not ever supposed to be narrowed (Sec. 3.4 (15)(B)).
 
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