Re: European Day of Languages (26 September)

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:55:44 -0000 (UTC): Christian Weisgerber
<naddy@mips.inka.de> scribeva:

On 2024-09-26, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
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https://edl.ecml.at/
Can you identify all 43 languages from their two-letter abbreviations?

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Uhmm... I should be able to... but no.
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ME? "Crnogorski jezik", that must be Montenegrin. Wikipedia doesn't
list that language code, though.  Also, another separate Serbocroatian
language? *sigh*

Perhaps they are mixing up ISO 639 (languages) and ISO 3166
(countries)? ME is montenegro, the Montenegrin language (which of
course is simply Serbian) is cnr in ISO 639-2 and 3.

Why does that list have Nynorsk instead of Norwegian (NO), which
covers both written standards?

Yes, strange. The country code for Norway is NO, the languages are nn
or nno for Nynorsk, and nb of nob for Bokmål.

No Faroese (FO).  Maybe the Faroe Islands don't fall under the
umbrella of the Council of Europe.

ISO 639 fo or fao.

So it seems this page is either not genuine and official, or the
organisation invented its own codes.

For Danish and Swedish they do use language codes (da and sv), not
country codes (DK and SE).

Good. Now, can you write the self-designations of all of them,

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Nope.
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in the appropriate script?

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Nope, I've never had any real contact with the Georgian and Armenian
alphabets.