Macro languages

[zseder]

@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.

1. What to do with macro-languages that are not on this mapping?
2. With a proper mapping, what to do with crúbadán (or other src) data, that are written to a macro-language?

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[pajkossy]

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,
(other versions of ISO 639 do) I guess that's why sol was not on the list.

[zseder]

András told me to

1. choose "champion" language to every macro/collective language
2. put data only to the champion
3. when crúbadán distinguishes two languages with the same sil, we should do the same and create fake codes for them

[zseder]

#36 contains some sils where our solution has to work properly

[zseder]

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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrolanguage is good resource for macro languages and their individuals

[zseder]

done in #75