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Re: [lojban] Summary: Cultural fu'ivla



On Thursday 01 April 2010 19:29:29 komfo,amonan wrote:
> Hmm. Isn't there a cultural bias in the ISO codes? My recollection is that,
> broadly speaking, the larger the language, the closer the code to the
> autonym.

I think that's because the more populous languages got codes first. The others 
had to make do with whatever letter combinations were left.

Pierre

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