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)


 * 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)
 * "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)
 * 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)
 * 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)