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Rebecca 1. Regardless of the pros and cons of the points made by Joan Benet Rodríguez Manzanares, PLEASE do not sent large attachments (943123 bytes is what reached me). Please place it on a website, and give us the URL. Large attachments can completely obliterate the available bandwidth: I'm working away from my normal office, and attachments like this can cause mayhem with various dialup restrictions. 2. On Joan Benet Rodríguez Manzanares' paper, the main issues seem to be about orthography (and indeed these are well attested, and generally convincing arguments, though it would help if the English was clearer. It doesn't say anything about the status of Valencian being other than a dialect. It has additional lexical items, and some different grammatical constructions, in comparison to Barcelona Catalan, but what self-respecting dialect wouldn't? I note that the Ethnologue describes the language as Catalan-Balearic-Valencian (which sounds like hedging one's bets, and isn't a neat language name). However, there is no suggestion from that, that Valencian would be a language in ISO 639-3, though it might receive a dialect code in one of the later parts of ISO 639, if/when that gets developed. 3. Nor, therefore, should ISO 639-2 list Valencian as a language name. There also needs to be come consideration given as to the operational relationship between maintenance of ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-2, just as the JAC provides an operational relationship between maintenance of ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-1. Best regards John Clews -- John Clews, Keytempo Limited (Information Management), 8 Avenue Rd, Harrogate, HG2 7PG Tel: +44 1423 888 432 mobile: +44 7766 711 395 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.keytempo.com