abbreviations for signed languages?

[Benjamin Barrett]

Granted they aren't in common use in many situations, but surely they're 
the best way forward. There are far too many sign languages beginning 
with "I" :) BB

Hope Hurlbut wrote:
> Dear Benjamin,
> Thanks for your helpful research.  Actually I have the Ethnologue 
> handy, but I was not thinking in terms of Ethnologue codes.  In the 
> Ethnologue the code for ASL is ASE, so not all codes are helpful.
> I like Shane's idea, as I have actually been using BII on my records 
> here.
> Hope
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Barrett" 
> <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
> To: "A list for linguists interested in signed languages" 
> <slling-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLLING-L] abbreviations for signed languages?
>
>
>> According to the Ethnologue (www.ethnologue.org), these "I" languages 
>> have the following abbreviations:
>>
>> Irish Sign Language: isg 
>> (http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=isg)
>> Indian Sign Language: ins 
>> (http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=ins)
>> Indonesian Sign Language: inl 
>> (http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=inl)
>> Israeli Sign Language: isr 
>> (http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=isr)
>>
>> ISL is for the spoken language Icelandic 
>> (http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=isl) :)
>>
>> These are the ISO 639-2 alpha codes for languages. There is a page at 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3 about this and a complete 
>> listing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-3_codes.
>>
>> HTH
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> a cyberbreath for language life
>> livinglanguages.wordpress.com
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