LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM (last updated 26 April 2005) Name of requester : Mark Davis E-mail address of requester: mark.davis&us.ibm.com Tag to be registered : zh-Hans-CN English name of language : PRC Mainland Chinese in simplified script Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): zhong wen (jian ti zi, zhong guo) Reference to published description of the language (book or article): RFC 3066 currently provides for the language tag zh-CN, to mark any distinctions in the Chinese used in China. However, Chinese is customarily written in multiple scripts, Traditional (Hant) and Simplified (Hans). It is often required, when matching languages, to select a subset of documents written in a particular script. When looking up language resources, this is even more important, so that text in different scripts is not mixed. For that reason, it is important to be able to distinguish the two scripts used in writing zh-CN: zh-Hant-CN vs zh-Hans-CN. 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 DeFrancis, John. The Chinese Language: Fact And Fantasy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. Paper. ISBN: 0-8248-1068-6 Chao, Yuen Ren. A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. ISBN: 0-520-00219-9. Kratochvil, Paul. The Chinese Language Today: features of an emerging standard. London: Hutchinson, 1968. Boltz, William G. The Origin and Development of the Chinese Writing System. Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1994. ISBN: 0-940490-78-1 (created 26 April 2005)