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The ISO 639 RA-JAC has received the following proposal for a new entry in the alpha-3 table: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:10:24 -0400 From: WWW generic account <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: New ISO 639-2 code This data was submitted on: Friday, October 11, 2002 at 14:10:24 lang_in_eng = Kalmyk language lang_in_fre = ref_where_found_1 = lang_in_vern = ref_where_found_2 = trans_lit = evidence = Columbia University Libraries (157) addinfo = request_addition = ISO 639-2 only 2_code_suggestion = 3_code_suggestion = KLM submit_name = Susan Summer submit_email = [log in to unmask] submit_status = Catalog librarian, Columbia University Libraries ---------- End forwarded message ---------- CURRENT SITUATION: ISO 639 encoding: tut = Altaic (other) Linguasphere: 44-BAA-bd = Kalmyk (Cf 44-BAA-be = Oyrat) Ethnologue: KGZ = Kalmyk-Oirat. Called "Kalmyk" in Russia, "Oirat" in China. Some 174.000 speakers in Asian Russia, 139.000 in China, 205.000 in Mongolia. ISSUES: It isn't entirely obvious to me whether we should include "Kalmyk" or "Kalmyk-Oirat". If we go for the former, a change will be needed in the Ethnologue encoding. One important question is whether the groups have a common literature across the borders. One option might be to encode "Kalmyk" and "Oirat" seaparately. Input is invited! Best regards, Håvard Hjulstad (acting chairman of ISO 639 RA-JAC) ------------------------- Håvard Hjulstad mailto:[log in to unmask] Chairman ISO/TC37 (Terminology and other language resources) Chairman ISO/TC207/TCG (Environmental management - Terminology coordination group) Solfallsveien 31 NO-1430 Ås, Norway tel: +47 64963684 & +47 64944233 mob: +47 90145563 http://www.hjulstad.com/havard/ -------------------------