On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:21:40 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> The Romance languages are a dialect continuum from Lisbon to Calabria.

Did you have some reason not to include Romanian?

===

[suzmccarth]

>> What is the difference between the 2 letter code and the 3 letter
>> identifier?

{Someone has probably given a better reply already; I'm just skimming
e-mail.}

Definitely non-authoritative:

Try Googling on [language codes]. ISO 639 is one standard.

Internet IP addresses use two-letter codes for nations, such as .uk. .ie,
.de, .jp, .es, etc. These are probably top-level domains. They seem to
differ sometimes from the elliptical black-on-white nation identifiers
seen on some private cars, such as "GB"; iirc, they come from Formula 1
Grand Prix racing.

Related, probably: The distinction between locale, such as Paraguay, and
language, such as Spanish and Guaraní, which, iirc, is widely spoken in
Paraguay. People who install Linux, especially outside the USA, are aware
of these.

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
Do organic chemists in S. America joke about Orthoguay and Metaguay as
hypothetical countries?
... orthodocs, metaphysicians, and parapsychologists...