Azerbaijani ISO code about dev

[bambooforest]

If look at what WALS tagged this resource:

http://wals.info/refdb/record/Householder-and-Lofti-1965

(check the bibtex entry) we get both azb and azj. I think at some point we were avoiding macrocodes, but in this case it seems like the best choice. Thoughts?

[drammock]

It seems like in this case the macrocode might be the appropriate choice.
However, if we do that I think we need to build an additional column into
the aggregation script that says "this is a macrolanguage" so that users
can easily exclude macrolanguages if they want to (or look only at the
macrolanguages). We may want to do something similar to make it easy to
find all signed / mixed / pidgin / extinct languages too... I know we had
a way to exclude those when we wrote the Language paper, so it should be
fairly easy to dig up those lists of ISO codes. Leave this issue open and
I'll resolve it in a couple weeks.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Steven Moran [email protected]
wrote:

If look at what WALS tagged this resource:

http://wals.info/refdb/record/Householder-and-Lofti-1965

(check the bibtex entry) we get both azb and azj. I think at some point we
were avoiding macrocodes, but in this case it seems like the best choice.
Thoughts?

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[drammock]

I went to the source, which clearly says in the introduction that

The dialect presented in this book is as closely Tabrizi as possible...

Where Tabrizi is the dialect of Tabriz, i.e., Southern Azerbaijani (cf. the first few paragraphs of this review article). Apparently the book also has one chapter on the dialect of Baku (which would be Northern Azerbaijani), but I looked at it and it's too cursory to have been the source of the phoneme data. So I think we should code this as azj