Re: Ethnologue exercise
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 18:24 |
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> > Note: I have no clue what the brackets stand for, so I'm figuring it's an
> > abbreviation.
>
> They're simply a handy way to catalogue the languages online. The codes
> serve as unique identifiers when abbreviated and are handy ways to cross-
> reference them to other parts of the ethnologue.
[snip]
Is there a central registry of unique identifiers then? Otherwise how do
you prevent somebody from choosing an existing identifier? (Sorry if this
was mentioned before, I haven't been keeping up with this thread :-)
T