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[Question] Multiple entries under the same ISO code #370

Closed Lavmint closed 10 months ago

Lavmint commented 10 months ago

Greetings,

I'm making a small pet-project and noticed that for a single ISO6393 could be multiple InventoryID with a different set of phonemes. For instance under ISO rus (russ1263) there are 3 entries (166, 530, 2261)

Could someone please explain me what does this mean and would it be correct to merge those entries into a single entity in my app under rus with total sounds of 118 or it's better to keep them separated? Also would it be correct to merge all allophones in the same entity?

Another question is: why some phonemes while having the same GlyphID can have different Marginal value?

bambooforest commented 10 months ago

@Lavmint -- all your questions should be answered in the FAQ:

https://phoible.org/faq

Whether you combine or keep the inventories separate is up to you and your application.

Marginal is a status indicator about a phoneme and is dependent on whether the source reports marginality of phonemes. Not all bibliographic sources report marginal (or borrowed) phonemes (or allophones). This may also be pertinent to your decision of whether you combine different sources or not.