ISO 639 item: Northern Sotho; Pedi; Sepedi

[Håvard Hjulstad]

The ISO 639 RA-JAC (now) only includes "normal" name forms in its decisions,
not inverted. The underlying database (now) has "normal" name forms only
(e.g. "Sesotho; Southern Sotho"). Any presentation of the language names is
free to include inverted forms if desired. ISO 639-1:2002 includes "normal"
forms only (not inverted), including "Sesotho; Southern Sotho" (with entries
alphabetical by name forms at "Seso.." and "South.."). It has not been
decided how this will be dealt with in future editions of ISO 639-2.

Håvard

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no 
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> Sent: 26. oktober 2004 17:15
> To: ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: ISO 639 item: Northern Sotho; Pedi; Sepedi
> 
> 
> Håvard Hjulstad <hhj at standard dot no> wrote:
> 
> > The ISO 639 RA Joint Advisory Committee has decided the following:
> >
> > Existing item "nso" (no alpha-2 identifier), encoded in ISO 639-2
> since
> > 1998; new names:
> >
> > English: Northern Sotho; Pedi; Sepedi
> >
> > French: sotho du Nord; pedi; sepedi
> >
> > Indigenous: Sesotho sa Leboa; Sepedi
> 
> Previously this was listed as "Sotho, Northern."
> 
> Will the name "Sotho, Southern" (alpha-2 "st", alpha-3 "sot") 
> also be inverted to "Southern Sotho" to match this?
> 
> -Doug Ewell
>  Fullerton, California
>  http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
> 
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