It was just brought to my attention that 'alt' was added to ISO 639-2 for Southern Altai, but this addition never got reflected in the ISO 639-2 web site. (And, as a result, in ISO/DIS 639-3 I incorrectly list 'alt' as not being in part 2.) I've appended Havard's announcement below. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 22:05:13 +0200 From: H?vard Hjulstad<[log in to unmask]> Subject: New item in ISO 639 - Southern Altai To: "IETF-languages list" <[log in to unmask]>, "LangTag (Unicode)" <[log in to unmask]>, "ISO639-2 list" <[log in to unmask]>, "ISO639 list" <[log in to unmask]>, "ISO639 JAC list" <[log in to unmask]> Cc: Susan Summer <[log in to unmask]> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The ISO 639 Registration Authorities' Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) has approved the following: Alpha-3 identifier: alt (No alpha-2 identifier has been assigned.) English name: Southern Altai French name: alta� du Sud Southern Altai is a Northern Turkic language used in Asian Russia. For further information about the JAC and the maintenance of ISO 639, please see http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639jac.html Best regards, H�vard Hjulstad -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------