[Wikipedia-l] Re: Limburgian wikipedia

Wed Mar 31 21:50:55 UTC 2004

"Timwi" <timwi at gmx.net> schrieb:
> Kasper wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice if the Limburgian Wikipedia could be instigated at 
> > li.wikipedia.org, or rather lim.wikipedia.org. I think lim would be much 
> > clearer than li.
> 
> The question is not whether it's "clearer" or not. The language codes we 
> use are from an ISO standard.
> 
> I can't find any mention of "Limburgian language" in the ISO language 
> codes table, or on Wikipedia, or in Ethnologue. This seems to suggest to 
> me that such a language doesn't exist...

See: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html (changes to the
ISO 639 code). "Limburgish", "Limburger" or "Limburgan" has been added to
ISO 639 with code "li" in August 2002.

Andre Engels