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Direct linkHaspelmath, Martin – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
Linguists are sometimes confronted with choices concerning language names. For example, one and the same language may be referred to as Persian or Farsi. This short paper discusses some principles that one might use for making decisions when there are variant forms in use, or when one feels that none of the existing names is appropriate. The…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Planning, Databases, Second Languages
