In my view, Udmurt should certainly be assigned a code in ISO 639-2,
and "udm" is a good identifier for it. See
http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/udmurt.pdf for the indigenous name
"udmurt kyl".
For this and other languages I will undertake to help collect the
French names next week.
Michael Everson
At 11:35 +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, 11 Oct 2002 14:14:00 -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 11, 2002 at 14:14:00
>
>lang_in_eng = Udmurt language
>lang_in_fre =
>ref_where_found_1 =
>lang_in_vern =
>ref_where_found_2 =
>trans_lit =
>evidence = Columbia University Libraries (128)
>addinfo =
>request_addition = ISO 639-2 only
>2_code_suggestion =
>3_code_suggestion = UDM
>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: fiu = Finno-Ugric (other)
>
>Linguasphere: 41-AAE-ac = Udmurt
>
>Ethnologue: UDM = Udmurt. Some 550.000 speakers in the Udmurtia region in
>Russia.
>
>COMMENT:
>
>To me this seems like a quite straight-forward issue. The proposed
>identifier (udm) is identical with the Ethnologue identifier, and it is
>available.
>
>
>Best regards,
>Håvard Hjulstad
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