Subject: [Ietf-languages] Variant subtag for Gallo (was: RE: ISO-3 for Gallo)

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 13:21:45 -0600

Hello Mr. Eufe,

Thank you for your inquiry.

Registration of a BCP 47 variant subtag for a dialect, orthography, or other language variety is not automatic. There is a registration process as described in RFC 5646; a Language Subtag Reviewer, who reviews requests and makes the ultimate decision; and a mailing list (cc'd) where participants can provide additional information and perspectives to assist the Reviewer in making his decision.

RFC 5646, the main document that constitutes BCP 47, is here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5646

Information on the mailing list, including steps to subscribe to the list and participate in the discussion, is here:
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/Ietf-languages

For the variety in question (Gallo), the discussion will probably focus on the position of Gallo within the family of langues d'oil, and whether other members of the family (besides Standard French) need to be considered as well. There will probably also be comparisons to the langue d'oc family; note than Occitan is coded in ISO 639, but its dialects (Languedocien, Gascon, etc.) have only recently been assigned BCP 47 variant subtags.

Members of this list can help with the actual paperwork described in Section 3.5 of RFC 5646, but you might be asked to provide references to Gallo beyond the Wikipedia page.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

--
Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Rembert Eufe <[email-masked]> 
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 12:40
To: Registrar ISO639-3 <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]; Doug Ewell <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: ISO-3 for Gallo

Dear Melinda Lyons,

thank you very much for your answer.

Dear Doug Ewell,

hereby we would like to apply for a dialect code for Gallo. Is this message sufficient or do we have to do anything else?

Thank you in advance,

yours,

Rembert Eufe

Zitat von Registrar ISO639-3 <[email-masked]>:

> Dear Mr. Eufe,
>
> Gallo is considered a dialect of French, so does not have a code under 
> ISO 639. You can apply for a dialect code under IETF BCP 47 by contacting Mr.
> Doug Ewell at the copied address.
>
> Melinda Lyons
> ISO 639-3 RA
> SIL International
> 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd.
> Dallas, TX 75236
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 6:36 AM Rembert Eufe 
> <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> we currently work on a French corpus in which some sequences in Gallo 
>> appear. Gallo is the Romance vernacular of Eastern Brittany (opposed 
>> to Breton in its Western part):
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo_language .
>>
>> For our annotation, we need an ISO-3-Code for Gallo, but we can't 
>> find it. Apparently it hasn't been created yet?
>>
>> We would be glad for any information on this subject,
>>
>> yours,
>>
>> Rembert Eufe