ISO 639 JAC ballot 2004-12 - Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian

Please vote by 2004-12-16

Submitted by (your name):

(A) Inclusion:
(1)
___ I am in favour of including "Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian" in
ISO 639-2 (alpha-3 table).

___ I am opposed to including "Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian" in ISO
639-2 (alpha-3 table).

Comment:

[No proposal to include item in ISO 639-1 (alpha-2 table).]

(B) Identifier:
(2)
___ I accept the identifier "rup" for "Aromanian; Arumanian;
Macedo-Romanian".

___ I do not accept the identifier "rup" for "Aromanian; Arumanian;
Macedo-Romanian".

Comment:

(C) Names:
(3)
___ I accept the English names "Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian;
Macedo-Romanian".

___ I do not accept the English names "Aromanian; Arumanian;
Macedo-Romanian; Macedo-Romanian".

Comment:

(4)
___ I accept the French names "aroumain; macédo-roumain".

___ I do not accept the French names "aroumain; macédo-roumain".

Comment:

(5)
___ I accept the indigenous name: "armâneashti".

___ I do not accept the indigenous name: "armâneashti".

Comment:

(D)
General comment:

***** Original submission *****

This data was submitted on: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 16:03:45

lang_in_eng = aromanian, arumanian, macedo-romanian, vlach lang_in_fre =
aroumain, macédo-roumain ref_where_found_1 =
lang_in_vern = armâneashti
ref_where_found_2 =
trans_lit =
evidence = Biblioteca Academiei Române, Bucharest, Romania (54) addinfo =
The list of books in aromanian can be found at
http://193.230.13.190:4330/ALEPH/ROM/RAL/RAL/RAL/SHORT/519332/1 , on the
site of the Romanian Academy Library (www.bar.acad.ro)

Number of speakers: 260.000 to 378.000. Spoken in the Balkans.
request_addition = ISO 639-2 only 2_code_suggestion =
3_code_suggestion = aro
submit_name = Dan Irimie
submit_email = [log in to unmask]
submit_status =

***** Additional information *****

This item has been discussed by the JAC previously. From the resolutions
from the JAC meeting on 2000-02-18/18: "23. Aromanian: Deferred. Further
evidence of the documents is needed. These will be circulated through the
e-mail lists."

The item was sent out again in July, with a reminder in September. There
were few comments, and no negative comments. The ballot proposes to assign
the ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue identifier: rup.

Status in Ethnologue and ISO 639-3: Macedo-Romanian = "rup"
(http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RUP).

Linguasphere: 51-AAD-b ("Armâneasca+Meglenitsa") and 51-AAD-ba ("Limba
Armâneasca").