LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

(last updated 2003-05-30)

Name of requester          : Mark Davis
E-mail address of requester: <mark.davis&macchiato.com> or <mark.davis&us.ibm.com>
Tag to be registered       : zh-Hans

English name of language   : simplified Chinese

Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): zhong wen (jian ti zi)

Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

Chinese is customarily written in two very different script variants, 
called simplified and traditional. It is often required, when 
matching languages, to select a subset of documents written in a 
particular script variant. When looking up language resources, this 
is even more important, so that text in different script variants is 
not mixed.

References:
Ramsey, S. Robert. The Languages of China. Princeton: Princeton 
University Press, 1987. Paper. ISBN: 0-691-01468-X

Wang, W. S-Y. Languages and Dialects of China. Journal of Chinese 
Linguistics Monograph Series No. 3. Berkeley: Journal of Chinese 
Linguistics, 1991

Boltz, William G. The Origin and Development of the Chinese Writing 
System. Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1994. ISBN: 0-940490-78-1

(created 2003-05-30)

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