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Macro languages #40
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Collective and macro language are different categories. As I understand collective is a looser category with geographical/historic motivation (like Philippine languages), macro language denotes a group of languages with a stronger connection, like having a common written form (Chinese) or common standard dialect (Arabic). ISO 639-3 doesn't contain collective languages, |
András told me to
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#36 contains some sils where our solution has to work properly |
We have to parse iso 639 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes) to get collective languages, until then, there will be some languages with no champion |
done in #75 |
@kornai How to deal with languages that are macro-languages?
There is a mapping here:
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/macrolanguages.asp
but even though sol supposed to be a collective/macro language:
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=son
It's not on this list.
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