Language code for Pinyin?

[Denis Arnaud]

Hi!

Is there a language code for Pinyin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin)?

If not, I guess the most reasonable is to put English (in alternate names).

Cheers

Denis

[Marc Wick]

Hi Denis

I am not aware of an iso language code for it, so English is a
reasonable choice.

Best Regards

Marc

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[rzeno]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 06:55:26AM +0200, Marc Wick wrote:
> Hi Denis
>
> I am not aware of an iso language code for it, so English is a
> reasonable choice.
>

i'm not sure but based on this:

http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/index.php?find=pinyin&submit=Find

subtag is probably zh-Latn or bo-Latn, probably primary subtag, followed by the country tag.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt

best regards

[Maksym Shostak]

Hi Denis,

ISO 639-3 has the code 'pny' for the language name 'Pinyin'

Source: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/download.asp 

Regards,

Max

[rzeno]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 05:35:31AM -0700, Maksym Shostak wrote:
> Hi Denis,
>
> ISO 639-3 has the code 'pny' for the language name 'Pinyin'
> Source: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/download.asp
>

from same source:

http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/index.php?find=pinyin&submit=Find

pny "Pinyin
Comment. Registry comment: a Niger-Congo language spoken in Cameroon; not to be confused with the Pinyin romanization systems used for Chinese and Tibetan

* Type: language
* Added: 2009-07-29
* Comments: a Niger-Congo language spoken in Cameroon; not to be confused with the Pinyin romanization systems used for Chinese and Tibetan
"
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pny

if i didn't miss something the question was about the romanization system, Hanyu Pinyin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin

best regards

[Denis Arnaud]

Thanks for your answers.

Yes, I was thinking about the romanization of the Chinese language. For instance, as in http://www.geonames.org/7910162/jiuzhai-huanglong-airport.html

Chinese is of course not the sole language to have a romanisation (a.k.a., transliteration) scheme, since passports from any country must show Roman characters (along with the native language).

So, we could maybe add a '-Latn' subtag to the language code?

For instance, for many Ukrainian POR, the Ukrainian transliteration (uk-Latn) is not the same as the Russian one (ru-Latn).

Note that Wikipedia has got apparently the same issue. As far as I have seen, the language template (e.g., "{{lang-ISO|}}") does not contain references to romanization/transliteration, and some have found work-arounds, like in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozelshchyna_Raion . But I have not digged that much in Wikipedia, and they may have a cleaner solution for that issue.