
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-SG
English name of language   : Singapore Chinese in simplified script
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): zhong wen (jian ti zi, xin jia
po)

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

RFC 3066 currently provides for the language tag zh-SG, to mark any distinctions 
in the Chinese used in Singapore.

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-SG: zh-Hant-SG vs zh-Hans-SG.

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)