LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: Variant for a Latin-based alphabet for Id?l-Ural (Qazan) Tatar (iqtel)

[Doug Ewell]

Reshat Sabiq <tatar dot iqtelif dot i18n at gmail dot com> wrote:

>> Note that the only valid primary language subtag for Tatar is "tt", 
>> derived from the ISO 639-1 code element.  "tat", the ISO 639-2 code 
>> element, is not valid.
> I see. I guess this refers to:
> "Note: For languages that have both an ISO 639-1 2-character code and 
> an ISO 639-2 3-character code, only the ISO 639-1 2-character code is 
> defined in the IANA registry."
> http://www.inter-locale.com/ID/draft-phillips-langtags-10.html#primarylang

You are looking at a draft that is 19 months old.  The final, approved 
document is RFC 4646:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt

As it turns out, though, this particular text in RFC 4646 is essentially 
the same as in the draft.  The rule goes back to RFC 3066 in 2001.

> Please treat the submission as if it had only tt in 7. If needed, i'll 
> re-submit it later on.

It shouldn't be necessary for you to resubmit to fix this.  Four 
requests were recently approved with the understanding that similar 
minor errors would be fixed.

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