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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