Re: Ethnologue exercise

"H. S. Teoh" wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:45:41PM -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> > Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
Yep:  <http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/names/AA-AM.html>.  That page is
just A-AM, but has links to all the other pages at the top.

> (Sorry if this
> was mentioned before, I haven't been keeping up with this thread :-)
No, don't worry.  I know that I certainly miss snippets of what people
say frequently.  The tendency to jump in on a thread you haven't been monitoring
can sometimes be overwhelming.  :)

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