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For the record, I agree absolutely with Peter's analysis and recommendations in each case. Best regards John Clews In message <[log in to unmask]> Peter Constable wrote via [log in to unmask]: > Some comments on requests other than Kalmyk: > > Udmurt, Adygei, Kabardian, Ingush, Dargwa, Crimean Tatar, Nogai: > Ethnologue lists these as individual languages, hence we would > consider them to be appropriate for encoding as a distinct, > individual languages. > > Mordvin: Our position is to concur with Michael: there are two > distinct languages: Moksha and Erzya. The alternative would be to > encode a collective identifier for "Mordvinic languages", but we > received outside input (via Havard) discouraging the idea of doing > just that alone. Our recommendation would be to encode two individual > languages; encoding of a collective could be considered later if > there is such a user request. > > Karachay-Balkar: Michael mentioned two alphabets. The research behind > the Ethnologue has not thus far (that I know of) demonstrated that > there are two distinct languages. Our recommendation would be to > encode as a single language at this time. > > Altai: We would recommend encoding "Southern Altai". > > - Peter -- John Clews, Keytempo Limited (Information Management), 8 Avenue Rd, Harrogate, HG2 7PG Email: [log in to unmask] tel: +44 1423 888 432; Committee Member of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC22/WG20: Internationalization; Committee Member of ISO/TC37/SC2/WG1: Language Codes