sc-IT for Sardinian language

From: Francesco Cheratzu (f.cheratzu@tiscali.it)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 00:59:58 EDT

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    The latter part of my message was "wishful thinking". sc-IT is to be used
    without doubt.

    What I meant was that we might have a problem in the future if we want to
    translate Abiword in Gallurese-sardinian which is quite different from the
    other three dialects.

    Just to add wood to the fire in Sardinia we also have a Catalan dialect
    spoken in the town of Alghero (and only there!) and a Genovese dialect (so
    called Tabarchino) spoken on the small islands of S. Pietro and S. Antioco
    (on the south west coast of Sardinia). For simplicity's sake I won't go into
    the various sub-dialects of the main variants. The real problem is that
    Sardinia should be considered as a seperate country... but this is wishful
    thinking once again.

    In bon'ora,

    Francesco

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Alan Horkan" <horkana@tcd.ie>
    To: "Francesco Cheratzu" <f.cheratzu@tiscali.it>
    Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 10:59 PM
    Subject: Re: Sardinian language

    >
    >
    > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Francesco Cheratzu wrote:
    >
    > > The fourth dialect is "gallurese" and it is a mixture of Corsican and
    > > Sardinian (present in the north-east) and so it differentiates from the
    > > others both in lexicon and grammar (maybe it would be better to use sc
    for
    > > sardinian-corsican and srd for sardinian).
    >
    > That does not sound like it would be compatible with what the ISO codes
    > use. Standards are really important in this matter so i can tell you now
    > from my limited understanding of what has been discussed that this sounds
    > like a really bad idea (although i may be misunderstanding what you are
    > saying).
    >
    > Reply to the list please
    >
    > Later
    > Alan
    >
    >



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