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 14:14:00 -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 14:14:00 lang_in_eng = Udmurt language lang_in_fre = ref_where_found_1 = lang_in_vern = ref_where_found_2 = trans_lit = evidence = Columbia University Libraries (128) addinfo = request_addition = ISO 639-2 only 2_code_suggestion = 3_code_suggestion = UDM 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: fiu = Finno-Ugric (other) Linguasphere: 41-AAE-ac = Udmurt Ethnologue: UDM = Udmurt. Some 550.000 speakers in the Udmurtia region in Russia. COMMENT: To me this seems like a quite straight-forward issue. The proposed identifier (udm) is identical with the Ethnologue identifier, and it is available. Best regards, H�vard Hjulstad (acting chairman of ISO 639 RA-JAC) ------------------------- H�vard 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 �s, Norway tel: +47 64963684 & +47 64944233 mob: +47 90145563 http://www.hjulstad.com/havard/ -------------------------