[Sigia-l] notation for locales

Ziya Oz listera at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 1 00:48:38 EDT 2007


Ruth Kaufman:

> I normally notate this as a pair of words or codes, such as
> "CN-FR" or "Canada, French".

You may have to adjust the granularity of that. :-) For example, one of
NYC's boroughs, Queens (USA>NY>NYC>Queens), has more than 135 languages
spoken by about 2 million people in not more than 100 sq miles. And that's
not even the most populous NYC borough.

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Ziya

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