Subject: Re: [Ietf-languages] Unknown language discovered Malaysia

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:10:04 -0700

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>> FYI:
>> 
>> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/unknown-language-discovered-malaysia-180968099/
>
> Already in Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedek_language>
> but not yet in ISO-639.

As much as I enjoy Wikipedia, few of its contributors seem to understand
the difference between a language and a dialect. (See
"Category:Languages without ISO 639-3 code".)

Although Jedek seems to be distinct enough from Jehai [jhl] to quality
as a language, from the Smithsonian article, it would be best to wait
for corroboration from SIL before thinking about coding.
  
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