To ISO 639 JAC members,
As many of you will realize, this item has been discussed extensively on the IETF-Languages list. Personally I tend to agree with Rebecca when it comes to how we should respond to this request, but people who have followed the IETF discussion more closely than I have, may wish to present some of the arguments.
The JAC may also wish to discuss how to draw relevant borders: We certainly don't want to register "Texan" as an additial name for English! The present case may be similar to Catalan/Valencian/Balear?
Best regards,
Håvard
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Håvard Hjulstad
Standard Norge / Standards Norway
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca S. Guenther [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:08 PM
To: [log in to unmask]; Håvard Hjulstad
Subject: ISO 639-2 Language Code Change Request (fwd)
Here is a request for an additional language name. According to the Ethnologue entry for France, Alsatian is a dialect of Alemannic (Swiss German). So an entry for Alsatian would properly belong in the part of
ISO-639 for dialects. Do you want to respond to the person? Or do you think we need to discuss this in the JAC?
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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:04:03 -0500
From: NDMSO <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: ISO 639-2 Language Code Change Request
ISO 639-2 Language Code Change Request.
English name of Language: Swiss German
French name of Language: alémanique
iso_639_2_b: gsw
iso_639_2_t: gsw
change_requested: This request is to add \"Alsatian\" as a language name to this entity.
This request is in synch with the Ethnologue page for gsw referenced by ISO 639-3. I am a member of the IETF language tags working group and the inclusion of this name will help users looking for a code for Alsatian in the IANA registry.
Submitter's name: Karen Broome
Submitter's email : [log in to unmask]
Submitter's status : I am in charge of metadata standards at Sony Pictures and work with the LTRU group for the IETF. I also work with many audiovisual technical standards that require codes for dubbed and subtitled languages. I am the original registrant of the gsw tag.
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