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ISO 639 Ballot -- New item: Erzya Please vote by Friday 2003-01-24. Please see additional information below the ballot form. Submitted by (your name, please): Rebecca Guenther (A) -- Inclusion: (1) _X__ I am in favour of including the individual language "Erzya" in 639-2 (alpha-3 code) ___ I am opposed to including the individual language "Erzya" in 639-2 (alpha-3 code) (B) -- Identifier: (Please vote even if you are opposed to the inclusion of the item) (2) _X__ I accept the alpha-3 identifier "myv" for Erzya (if to be included) ___ I do not accept the identifier "myv" -- Comment: (C) -- Language names: (3) _X__ I accept the English name "Erzya" (if to be included) ___ I do not accept the English name "Erzya" -- Comment: (4) _X__ I accept the French name "erzya" (if to be included) ___ I do not accept the French name "erzya" -- Comment: (5) _X__ I accept the indigenous name "erzjan' kel'" [with dot over first e] (if to be included) ___ I do not accept the indigenous name "erzjan' kel'" -- Comment: Other comments: * * * * * * * Background and additional information: This is based on a proposal submitted on 2002-10-11 and circulated to the JAC for comments on 2002-10-30. The proposal was originally for one identifier for Mordvin. Feedback that has been received (from Michael Everson and Trond Trosterud (via Håvard Hjulstad)) strongly advise against one identifier for Mordvin, but rather to identify the two Mordvinic languages Moksha and Erzya separately. Evidence clearly confirms that the two languages are separate "individual languages". Since this has not been contradicted by other input, I propose to encode the two languages separately, and two separate ballots are circulated. The proposed identifiers are identical with the Ethnologue identifiers, and they are not based on indigenous names. The source of the French name is http://www.eurominority.org/. The source of the indigenous name is http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/