User talk:Ewithu

mansi

Hi. The Mansi languages don't have ISO codes. Only Mansi as a whole does. Wiktionary codes like "mns-sou" are not ISO. — kwami (talk) 19:23, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Kwamikagami yes, you are right, my appologies, I tried doing something similar I saw in other Uralic languages without ISO codes, but I forgot which was it, but now I know it was the Northwestern Mari language. Do you think that could be sufficient way of writing it? Ewithu (talk) 19:45, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"isoexception" is a tracking device. Instead of going in the hidden category "Languages without ISO 639-3 code", which could be an error or oversight, it puts it in "Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code". There are a lot of those, and separating them out makes it easier to find and correct errors in the other.

"Dialect" may not be the correct word, but the normal reader doesn't see this. It's a "dialect" in the sense that it's subsumed under a language that is assigned an ISO code (that is, it was considered a dialect by Ethnologue). If we can demonstrate that it's not a dialect by intelligibility criteria, then we petition ISO to split the superior code, or simply add a new code. Straightforward enough; I've done it several times. — kwami (talk) 19:58, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did not mean to be ignorant, or come of as a know it all, I'm sorry. Thank you for reaching out to make it clear to me. Ewithu (talk) 20:08, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't come off as a know-it-all. You're just new and haven't yet figured out what we've been doing and why. It will take a while. — kwami (talk) 00:22, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]