A consistent arrangement of information is included for each language, for easy reference. Comments are marked by **** John Clews ------------------------------------------------------------ Ethnologue: KARACHAY-BALKAR [KRC] lang, Russia, Europe, USA Ballot: ___ I accept/do not accept the alpha-3 identifier "krc" for Karachay-Balkar (if to be included) Result: The item has NOT been approved for inclusion, and a second round is needed. [One language or two?] **** COMMENT (JPC): regarded as a single literary language throughout the Soviet period. There may be the option to have three codes, for Karachay-Balkar, Karachay and Balkar, as for Serbo-Croat, Serbian, and Croatian. One (Karachay, I think) also has a long history as a literary language in classical times, which I don't think Balkar did. In passing, as a librarian I know from British Library days that a lot of books exist explicitly in Serbo-Croat, and not in Serbian or Croatian, so deprecation was arguably incorrect, and it should no longer be deprecated. Serbo-Croat was constructed by a major linguist in the 19th and 20th centuries, as a language bringing together dialects from various parts of the country, much as was probably done for Karachay-Balkar, and in may ways what was done in Nynorsk (I forget the names of the linguists concerned). That's rather a long winded way of saying that there's a reason to give a code for Karachay Balkar, as requested: it wouldn't conflict with any later request for providing further codes for Karachay and Balkar separately, if such were requested. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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