ISO 639-3 code for International Sign Language--a good idea? How to proceed?

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Esperanto does have a code and it does not make sense to lump all distinct
international sign languages together in one ccode. When there is sufficient
clarity what distinct languages exist and to what extend they are used, they
can get their own codes.

I am quite happy to help where I can.

Thanks,
    Gerard


On 11/2/07, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
>
> Does Esperanto have a code? If it does, then these International
> signing systems could have a unique code too. Each International
> signing system should have its own unique code...to lump them all
> together into one code representing "all International signing"
> doesn't make sense to me, because the codes are used to refer to a
> specific language, and the World Federation of the Deaf's
> International signing system is not the same as Signuno, for example...
>
> So it is a matter of pinning down what systems are current today and
> assigning different language codes to each one...
>
> Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
> ----------
>
>
> On Nov 2, 2007, at 1:31 AM, GerardM wrote:
>
> > With Signundo having an active community, it can have its own
> > language code as well. When Gestuno has no active community, it is
> > unlikely that there is an immediate need for an ISO 639 code for it.\
> >
> > Thanks,
> >      Gerard
>
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