Reshat Sabiq's requests for two Tatar orthographic variants
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Sun Feb 4 11:43:16 CET 2007
At 16:04 -0800 2007-02-03, Doug Ewell wrote:
>2. Do NOT call this new subtag "nta". (Variant subtags added under
>RFC 4646 are canonically lowercase, though matching algorithms must
>be case-insensitive.) The implied word "new" might unnecessarily
>reinforce the notion of this 1930s orthography as something "new,"
>particularly in today's context where some former Soviet minority
>languages are again adopting (different) Latin orthographies.
>Instead, call it by its Tatar name "janalif" unless this would be
>unacceptable to non-Tatar speakers.
Is it the same as the pan-Turkic alphabet? Panturk would do if it is.
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