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Currently both ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-1 provide a single code for Komi. Like other recent queries brought to the attention of the ISO 639 JAC list, there are again two languages involved: Komi-Zyrian (which is usually just referred to as Komi) and Komi-Permyak. Both have had official status (as "literary languages") within the former Soviet Union, and may still both have such status within the Russian Federation, under the new constitution. Ethnologue has two entries. KOMI-PERMYAK [KOI] lang, Russia, Europe KOMI-ZYRIAN [KPV] lang, Russia, Europe Best regards John Clews -- John Clews, SESAME Computer Projects, 8 Avenue Rd, Harrogate, HG2 7PG tel: +44 1423 888 432; fax: + 44 1423 889061; Email: [log in to unmask] Committee Chair of ISO/TC46/SC2: Conversion of Written Languages; Committee Member of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC22/WG20: Internationalization; Committee Member of CEN/TC304: Information and Communications Technologies: European Localization Requirements Committee Member of TS/1: Terminology (UK national member body of ISO/TC37: Terminology) Committee Member of the Foundation for Endangered Languages; Committee Member of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC2: Coded Character Sets