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I received a request from this person for a language code for Valencian (see below). He was pleased with my proposal to include the language name with Catalan. I just wanted to let the JAC know that I plan to do this and see if there are any objections. Rebecca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:56:23 -0500 (EST) From: Rebecca S. Guenther <[log in to unmask]> To: Tomas Miralles <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: A question about a language We have considered Valencian a variant of Catalan and have included it in that code. Sometimes when we discover this sort of omission we add that language name to the list with the code assigned. Since this is a variant and uses the code of Catalan, we could change to: Catalan; Valencian cat then in the "V" section we would add: Valencian; Catalan cat There is the alternative to fill out the form for a new language code, but I think in this case the committee would still consider it a variant and it is our policy to include it as I detailed above. The form is at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639-2form.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ Rebecca S. Guenther ^^ ^^ Chair, ISO 639-2 Maintenance Agency ^^ ^^ Senior Networking and Standards Specialist ^^ ^^ Library of Congress ^^ ^^ Washington, DC 20540-4402 ^^ ^^ (202) 707-5092 (voice) (202) 707-0115 (FAX) ^^ ^^ [log in to unmask] ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Tomas Miralles wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I'm writing you because I have entered in your web about "codes for the > representation of names of languages and I would like to know why my mother > lenguage (valencian; a variant of catalan but independent of this, > recognized in Spain by the Statuts) doesn't appear at list. > > Valencian have own history and great writers like Joanot Martorell. > I would like that you gave me a code for valencian and if not, the reasons > by witch do not appear valencian at list. I do not understand why appear a > great number of lenguages spoken all arround the world and don't my > lenguage. > > Please, excuse me for my poor english, I'm waiting for your reply, > thanks you very much for your time. > > Bye > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: > http://messenger.microsoft.com/es > >