FOR ARCHIVING: Registration form for 'saigon'

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Chung Le
2. E-mail address of requester: chungvle&yahoo.com

3. Record Requested:

Type: variant
Subtag: saigon
Description: The S¨¤i G¨°n variant of Vietnamese
Prefix: vi

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

vi-saigon indicates the S¨¤i G¨°n variant of Vietnamese.

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

"Statistical Analysis of Vietnamese Dialect Corpus and Dialect
Identification Experiments" by Pham Ngoc Hung, Trinh Van Loan and Nguyen
Hong Quang (https://ijseas.com/volume2/v2i8/ijseas20160825.pdf). In this
paper, the three main variants (called dialects in the paper) are
discussed: H¨¤ N?i, Hu? and H? Ch¨ª Minh City.

6. Any other relevant information:

The third variant is called H? Ch¨ª Minh City in the paper. H? Ch¨ª Minh
City is the current name of the city formerly called S¨¤i G¨°n. The third
dialect is well known among Vietnamese people as S¨¤i G¨°n, and has been
in use long before the new name H? Ch¨ª Minh city. In other words, S¨¤i
G¨°n as a variant predates H? Ch¨ª Minh City. Therefore, this request
proposes a subtag named S¨¤i G¨°n instead of H? Ch¨ª Minh City.