At 14:58 -0700 2005-05-19, Peter Constable wrote:
>Why is it that the change history page at
><http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html
>indicates that "sh" for Serbo-Croatian was deprecated 2000-2-18,
>while it is listed in the code tables published with ISO 639-1:2002?
>
>While on the topic, Serbo-Croatian was one of the issues I
>identified last year (and still needing resolution) in the "Issues
>to Resolve" document (the last version of which reflects
>recommendations that Milicent Wewerka also endorsed). ISO/DIS 639-3
>has an entry for Serbo-Croatian as a macrolanguage, using "hbs" as
>the ID. At this point, it appears that Part 1 has IDs for the
>macrolanguage Serbo-Croatian ("sh") as well as for the individual
>languages, Bosnian ("bs"), Croatian ("hr") and Serbian ("sr").
>
>Wouldn't it make sense for us to add Serbo-Croatian to Part 2?
YES
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