Re: icons for languages

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:01 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote:
>  
>
> > I know, that's why I indicated "region", not "country". No matter what 
> > one thinks of e. g. Greater Kurdistan, it's hard to dispute there's 
> > currently a substantial group of people living and speaking Kurdish in a 
> > given geographic location.
> >    
>
> It's hard, but they still dispute it. Believe me, *some* maps of Greater
> Kurdistan that is supposed to where current Kurdish speakers live,
> include Azerbaijani-speaking areas, Lori-speaking areas, Persian-
> speaking areas, and Arabic-speaking areas. I don't know enough about the
> politics of Kurdish in Iraq and Turkey. That is only from my knowledge
> of Iran.
>
> In other words, yes, contrary to what you think, it is very very
> controversial to claim that a substantial group of people speaking in a
> certain region speak Kurdish.
>
> Danilo, would you please come to my aid? I guess you have a similar
> problem in the areas that made the former Yugoslavia.
>  
I suppose you refer to FYROM which oftentimes causes issues with Greece 
due to claims for affinity with ancient macedonia, either in terms of 
language or in terms of history.

Indeed, it's a difficult problem to solve yourself. For one reason or 
another, it's common to delegate the task to international standards, 
and follow them to the letter. It would still cause grievances, though 
you can direct now to ISO.

Simos