Doesn't adding this to 639-1 cause problems with automated systems? I thought the instructions were to use 639-1 if possible but to use 639-2 if there was no alpha-2 identifier. Databases will currently have records with "pau" since there was no 639-1 identifier. If we now add an identifier to 639-1 what happens to all those documents/records that used the alpha-3 identifier?
By the way, this is going to be an issue after 639-3 is formally approved also. Although there won't be the conflict between the number of letters in the identifier, there will probably be requests to add identifiers to 639-2 that appear already in 639-3.
Milicent Wewerka, Library of Congress
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Dear JAC members,
The request below is actually for adding an alpha-2 identifier (ISO 639-1) to an item which already has an alpha-3 identifier in ISO 639-2. The Malayo-Polynesian language Palauan has had the identifier pau since publication of ISO 639-2 in 1998.
The reason for requesting an alpha-2 identifier is that the language has official status in Palau.
The requested alpha-2 identifier (pu) is available.
Discussion please (until 2005-12-02).
Best regards,
Hĺvard Hjulstad
(secretary ISO 639 RA-JAC)
********** Submission: ***********
This data was submitted on: Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 10:55:03
lang_in_eng = Palauan
lang_in_fre = palau
ref_where_found_1 = ISO 639-2
lang_in_vern = Belauan
ref_where_found_2 =
trans_lit =
evidence = As this language is already in ISO 639-2, it is clear that there is sufficient evidence to introduce it in ISO 639-1, which is necessary because it has an official status in Palau (see Ethnologue for example)
addinfo = See ethnologue foe example
request_addition = ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2
2_code_suggestion = pu
3_code_suggestion = pau
submit_name = Lang gérard
submit_email = [log in to unmask]
submit_status = Convenor of ISo/TC 46/WG 2
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