LL-L: "Language codes" LOWLANDS-L, 08.DEC.1999 (02) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Language codes"

Dear Lowlanders,

Below I am forward a copy of my email to the folks at Microsoft.  I suggest
you write to them if you want to see other languages included.

Best regards,

Reinhard/Ron

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Subject: Language codes
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 09:20:00 -0800
From:  Lowlands-L Administrator <sassisch at yahoo.com>
To: errata at unicode.org

Thanks very much for the helpful language code list
(http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/languages.html).

I noticed that you wisely included languages that have not been given their
own codes as yet.  I propose that you include the following two languages as
well:

(1) SCOTS (not to be confused with "Scots Gaelic" in your list, nor with
Scottish English).  This language, the closest relative of English, now has de

facto or actual official recognition in Scotland.  It is used in all countries

that have Scottish communities.  There is a large and growing number of Scots
web sites.  For a sampling please see our list of links at
<http://www.geocities.com/~sassisch/rhahn/lowlands/links_scots.htm>.  An
appropriate code suggestion might be SC.

(2) LOW SAXON / LOW GERMAN.  Not long ago, it  was awarded official
recognition as a regional language both in the Netherlands and in eight North
German states.  It is known as "Low Saxon" (Nedersaksisch) mostly in the
Netherland and as "Low German" (Niederdeutsch / Plattdeutsch) in Germany.  It
is the direct descendant of Old Saxon.  It is the same language on both sides
of the border, though on the German side some bodies are still pretending that

they are two separate languages.  In the past, the tendency had been to
pretend that the dialects on the Netherlands side belonged to Dutch and those
on the German side belonged to German.   (For further details please visit
<http://www.geocities.com/~sassisch/rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax-engl.htm> and
<http://www.geocities.com/~sassisch/rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax-nl.htm>.)  There is

a large and growing number of Low Saxon / Low German web sites.  For a
sampling, please visit
<http://www.geocities.com/~sassisch/rhahn/lowlands/links_neddersassisch.htm>
and <http://www.geocities.com/~sassisch/rhahn/low-saxon/po-sites.htm>.

Thank you very much for your attention to this.

Regards,

Reinhard "Ron" Hahn
Lowlands-L
<http://www.geocities.com/~sassisch/rhahn/lowlands/>

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