In my view, Kabardian should certainly be assigned a code in ISO
639-2, and "kbd" is a good identifier for it. See
http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/kabardian.pdf for the indigenous
name "qabardjaibza".
Michael Everson
At 12:08 +0100 2002-10-30, Håvard Hjulstad wrote:
>The ISO 639 RA-JAC has received the following proposal for a new entry in
>the alpha-3 table:
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:24:45 -0400
>From: WWW generic account <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New ISO 639-2 code
>
>This data was submitted on: Friday, October 25, 2002 at 15:24:45
>
>lang_in_eng = Kabardian language
>lang_in_fre =
>ref_where_found_1 =
>lang_in_vern =
>ref_where_found_2 =
>trans_lit =
>evidence = Columbia University Libraries (186)
>addinfo =
>request_addition = ISO 639-2 only
>2_code_suggestion =
>3_code_suggestion = KBD
>submit_name = Susan Summer
>submit_email = [log in to unmask]
>submit_status = Catalog Librarian, Columbia University Libraries
>
>---------- End forwarded message ----------
>
>CURRENT SITUATION:
>
>ISO 639 encoding: cau = Caucasian (other)
>
>Linguasphere: 42-AAA-ac = Qaberdey
>
>Ethnologue: KAB = Kabardian. Spoken by some 650.000 people in Russia and
>Turkey.
>
>COMMENTS:
>
>It seems like a straight-forward issue. The name form "Kabardian" seems to
>be clearly the most common in English. (As for all proposals, we also need
>French name(s), and preferably also indigenous name(s).)
>
>The Ethnologue identifier (kab) is NOT available in ISO 639-2 (used for
>Kabyle), while the proposed identifier (kbd) is available.
>
>
>Best regards,
>Håvard Hjulstad
>(acting chairman of ISO 639 RA-JAC)
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