This is capturing some email discussion issues on the Language => Script / Territory data in supplemental data for bugs 377, 471, 272
We should to make it clear that the current information is to reflect "modern official or major commercial languages" (see bug 272) instead of just any languages spoken in the territories, since the latter is less useful for product localization. For example, it is of little use to add French as one of the languages for the US (despite the fact that is official in Louisiana) because it is not useful information for localizations.
If we want to broaden the list beyond modern official/major-commercial, we probably want to have separate attributes, like:.
On that basis, we'd want to change Esperanto (entirely).
Roozbeh raised 3 different cases that we should discuss
1) When a language is only official in certain parts (states, provinces, municipalities, etc.) of a country. This goes from Spanish in the United States (with at least 10% of the population speaking it at home in 2000, but only official in New Mexico and Puerto Rico) to Dogrib in Canada (with only 2085 native speakers in the whole country 1999, but official in Northwest Territories) to Kurdish in Iraq (with about 20% of the population speaking it, only official in the northern parts of the country but as the first official language there). French and Hawaiian in the United States would be good examples to discuss here and compare with Kurdish in Iraq.
2) When a language is only official in a territory with no ISO 3166 code (usually a de facto country) not controlled directly by the main UN-recognized government. The most important example is Kosovo which is in Serbia and Montenegro officially and primarily uses a completely different language (Albanian) and currency (Euro) than the main government of Serbia and Montenegro. But there are other much more isolated and less famous cases, including Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Northern Cyprus, and Nagorno-Karabakh.
3) When a language has official "minority language" recognition, like Welsh in the United Kingdom and Finnish in Sweden.
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This is capturing some email discussion issues on the Language => Script /
Territory data in supplemental data for bugs 377, 471, 272
We should to make it clear that the current information is to reflect "modern
official or major commercial languages" (see bug 272) instead of just any
languages spoken in the territories, since the latter is less useful for product
localization. For example, it is of little use to add French as one of the
languages for the US (despite the fact that is official in Louisiana) because it
is not useful information for localizations.
If we want to broaden the list beyond modern official/major-commercial, we
probably want to have separate attributes, like:.
<language type="af" scripts="Latn" territories="ZA" aux-territories="US"/>
On that basis, we'd want to change Esperanto (entirely).
Roozbeh raised 3 different cases that we should discuss
1) When a language is only official in certain parts (states, provinces,
municipalities, etc.) of a country. This goes from Spanish in the United
States (with at least 10% of the population speaking it at home in 2000,
but only official in New Mexico and Puerto Rico) to Dogrib in Canada
(with only 2085 native speakers in the whole country 1999, but official
in Northwest Territories) to Kurdish in Iraq (with about 20% of the
population speaking it, only official in the northern parts of the
country but as the first official language there). French and Hawaiian
in the United States would be good examples to discuss here and compare
with Kurdish in Iraq.
2) When a language is only official in a territory with no ISO 3166 code
(usually a de facto country) not controlled directly by the main
UN-recognized government. The most important example is Kosovo which is
in Serbia and Montenegro officially and primarily uses a completely
different language (Albanian) and currency (Euro) than the main
government of Serbia and Montenegro. But there are other much more
isolated and less famous cases, including Abkhazia, South Ossetia,
Northern Cyprus, and Nagorno-Karabakh.
3) When a language has official "minority language" recognition, like
Welsh in the United Kingdom and Finnish in Sweden.