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John Clews
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Ethnologue:
KARACHAY-BALKAR [KRC] lang, Russia, Europe, USA
Ballot:
___ I accept/do not accept the alpha-3 identifier
"krc" for Karachay-Balkar (if to be included)
Result:
The item has NOT been approved for inclusion, and a second round is needed.
[One language or two?]
**** COMMENT (JPC): regarded as a single literary language throughout
the Soviet period.
There may be the option to have three codes,
for Karachay-Balkar, Karachay and Balkar,
as for
Serbo-Croat, Serbian, and Croatian.
One (Karachay, I think) also has a long history as a literary
language in classical times, which I don't think Balkar did.
In passing, as a librarian I know from British Library days
that a lot of books exist explicitly in Serbo-Croat, and not
in Serbian or Croatian, so deprecation was arguably
incorrect, and it should no longer be deprecated.
Serbo-Croat was constructed by a major linguist in the 19th
and 20th centuries, as a language bringing together dialects
from various parts of the country, much as was probably done
for Karachay-Balkar, and in may ways what was done in Nynorsk
(I forget the names of the linguists concerned).
That's rather a long winded way of saying that there's a
reason to give a code for Karachay Balkar, as requested: it
wouldn't conflict with any later request for providing
further codes for Karachay and Balkar separately, if such
were requested.
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John Clews,
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