Reshat Sabiq's requests for two Tatar orthographic variants

[CE Whitehead]

Hi, I sort of like nta1926;
I do not completely object to nta though if its meaning is well-known among 
the speakers.

(How do speakers feel about a term like 'panturk'???  It's not the Turkish 
alphabet anyway.)

The key is the description I think.  That should distinguish nta from modern 
alphabets!

Thanks.

--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
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>Michael Everson yazmış:
> > 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.
>I don't know what alphabet this line refers to.
>
>The thing about janalif is that it is a Qazan Tatar word. And Qazan
>Tatar's state is quite dire these days, and so is it's alphabet. I think
>nta is a better choice. If we'd like to disambiguate New, how about 
>nta1926?
>
>I'm not against janalif, but it might not match the scope. We can try
>it, if you folks insist, and if there are objections in the future,
>deprecate it, and assign another variant name.
>
nta1926 might work then?


>So, i guess we are down to:
>1. nta
>2. janalif
>3. janalif for tt (and maybe ba), nta for others
>4. nta-janalif for tt and maybe ba, nta
>5. nta1926
>Or if there are better ideas, please speak up.
>
>Thanks,
>Reshat.
>
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