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   Ruud Harmsen to All   
   Re: European Day of Languages (26 Septem   
   27 Sep 24 08:07:14   
   
   From: rh@rudhar.com   
      
   Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:55:44 -0000 (UTC): Christian Weisgerber   
    scribeva:   
      
   >On 2024-09-26, Ross Clark  wrote:   
   >   
   >> https://edl.ecml.at/   
   >> Can you identify all 43 languages from their two-letter abbreviations?   
   >   
   >Uhmm... I should be able to... but no.   
   >   
   >ME? "Crnogorski jezik", that must be Montenegrin. Wikipedia doesn't   
   >list that language code, though.  Also, another separate Serbocroatian   
   >language? *sigh*   
      
   Perhaps they are mixing up ISO 639 (languages) and ISO 3166   
   (countries)? ME is montenegro, the Montenegrin language (which of   
   course is simply Serbian) is cnr in ISO 639-2 and 3.   
      
   >Why does that list have Nynorsk instead of Norwegian (NO), which   
   >covers both written standards?   
      
   Yes, strange. The country code for Norway is NO, the languages are nn   
   or nno for Nynorsk, and nb of nob for BokmÃ¥l.   
      
   >No Faroese (FO).  Maybe the Faroe Islands don't fall under the   
   >umbrella of the Council of Europe.   
      
   ISO 639 fo or fao.   
      
   So it seems this page is either not genuine and official, or the   
   organisation invented its own codes.   
      
   For Danish and Swedish they do use language codes (da and sv), not   
   country codes (DK and SE).   
      
   >> Good. Now, can you write the self-designations of all of them,   
   >   
   >Nope.   
   >   
   >> in the appropriate script?   
   >   
   >Nope, I've never had any real contact with the Georgian and Armenian   
   >alphabets.   
      
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