ISO 639 Ballot -- New item: Haitian; Haitian Creole

Please vote by Friday 2003-02-21.

Please see additional information below the ballot form.

Submitted by (your name, please):

(A) -- Inclusion:
(1)
___ I am in favour of including the individual language "Haitian; Haitian
Creole" in 639-1 (alpha-2 code)
___ I am opposed to including the individual language "Haitian; Haitian
Creole" in 639-1 (alpha-2 code)

(2)
___ I am in favour of including the individual language "Haitian; Haitian
Creole" in 639-2 (alpha-3 code)
___ I am opposed to including the individual language "Haitian; Haitian
Creole" in 639-2 (alpha-3 code)

(B) -- Identifiers:
(Please vote even if you are opposed to the inclusion of the item)
(3)
___ I accept the alpha-2 identifier "ht" for Haitian (if to be included)
___ I do not accept the identifier "ht" -- Comment:

(4)
___ I accept the alpha-3 identifier "hat" for Haitian (if to be included)
___ I do not accept the identifier "hat" -- Comment:


(C) -- Language names:
(Please vote even if you are opposed to the inclusion of the item)
(5)
___ I accept the English name "Haitian; Haitian Creole"
___ I do not accept the English name "Haitian; Haitian Creole" -- Comment:

(6)
___ I accept the French name "haïtien; creole haïtien"
___ I do not accept the French name "haïtien; creole haïtien" -- Comment:

(7)
___ I accept the indigenous name "Kreyòl; Kreyòl Ayisyen"
___ I do not accept the indigenous name "Kreyòl; Kreyòl Ayisyen" -- Comment:


Other comments:


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Background and additional information:

This is based on a proposal that was submitted on 2002-12-22 and circulated
to the JAC for comments on 2003-01-10. No negative feedback has been
received, except one general opinion that no new alpha-2 identifiers should
be assigned.

The identifiers on this ballot, which deviate from the identifiers that were
originally proposed, are harmonized with Ethnologue.

The names are probably quite relyable. The proposer did not include the
English and French names without "creole", but these names are found in a
number of sources.