Currently both ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-1 provide a single code for Tatar. ------------------------------------------------------------ 639-2 639-1 Language name ------------------------------------------------------------ tat tt Tatar ------------------------------------------------------------ Like other recent queries brought to the attention of the ISO 639 JAC list, there are again two languages involved: Tatar, or Kazan Tatar (which is usually just referred to as Tatar) and Crimean Tatar, or Krim Tatar in the vernacular. Tatar (Kazan Tatar) has official status (as a "literary language") within Tatarstan in the Russian Federation, and Crimean Tatar has been a "literary language" in Uzbekistan, with state publishing houses producing significant numbers of Crimean Tatar publications (following the mass deportations in the 1940s), and returning Crimean Tatars are attempting to get language rights and other rights in the Crimea, within the Ukraine, with mixed success. There is also a significant population of Crimean Tatars across the Black Sea in Turkey. Publications may be expected to be extensive. The Tatar languages are seen as distinct languages from each other. The Ethnologue has the following, rather confusing (and somewhat erroneous?) entries for various Tatar languages: TATAR [TTR] lang, Russia, Europe, Afghanistan, China, Turkey CRIMEAN TATAR alt for CRIMEAN TURKISH [CRH] CRIMEAN TURKISH [CRH] lang, Uzbekistan , USA, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Uzbekistan [sic] and also JUDEO-CRIMEAN TATAR [JCT] lang, Uzbekistan, Georgia MARC language codes also have various "Judeo-..." languages listed. I welcome reactions from JAC members as to the likely reactions to a future request from CEN/TC304 for adding a code for Crimean Tatar. 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