[Tagging] Identifying language regions

[Vao Matua]

I would suggest that OSM is probably not the best place for this.  There
are many countries that have many or even hundreds of languages.  The lines
between the places where languages are commonly spoken can be quite fuzzy
and often do not follow any other features. A year ago I was living in a
place where people living there spoke 3 different languages in addition to
the "official" language.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What would be the best tags to use for mapping language regions?  I would
> like to create a map of primary languages spoken in an area. This will
> greatly help with multilingual maps, allowing data consumers to calculate
> which language name tags to use for which locale. This will also give OSM
> community a much greater control over such maps.
>
> Proposal (relations only, must have closed polygons):
> type=language
> primary=xx   (required)
> secondary=yy;zz;...  (optional)
>
> A relation may span multiple countries (e.g. US and most of Canada for
> English), or split countries (e.g. EN and FR regions in Canada). In some
> cases, the relation will reuse country border ways.
>
> What do you think?
>
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