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  1. Bug #236028
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 236028

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Kaihsu Tai (kaihsu) wrote : Re: [Bug 236028] Re: Min Nan Chinese not available in Language Support

Arne Goetje, 2008-10-27 14:27:23-0000:
> Kaihsu Tai wrote:
> > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nan
>
> While we are at it:
> 1. ethnologue is not the authoritative data regarding language codes.
> That's ISO 639-3.

Sorry, my fault. But the web version of Ethologue does show
ISO 639-3 code on the top of the language page.

> 2. There has been a proposal filed at ISO 639-3 to split the nan code
> into dzu and xim, reflecting the Chaozhou and Xiamen dialects. As they
> group the Taiwan dialect into the Xiamen group, we should probably use
> xim_TW in future... ? (
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2008-083&lang=nan )

Indeed the language as spoken in Taiwan is in the Xiamen
(Amoy = Ē-mn̂g) group. But we should only change the code
from ‘nan’ to whatever when it becomes officially approved.

Cheers!

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