Duplicate Busters: Survey #1 [bwo] and [bxx]

[Doug Ewell]

Joan Spanne <ISO639 dash 3 at sil dot org> wrote:

> I will take action to resolve the matter for each of the four (Aruá; 
> Awa; Borna; Murik) by early next week.

I'm delighted to see that the RA is willing to resolve these conflicts 
within ISO 639-3, so we don't have to deviate from them.  I'll hold off 
on any action here until the new 639-3 files come out.

> I am inclined to accept Doug's recommendations, with the exception of 
> [Aruá]. Precedent within the standard uses a state or province level 
> geographic qualifier, so those would be [arx] "Aruá (Rodonia State)" 
> and [aru] "Aruá (Amazonas State)". If they were geographically 
> proximal to the district level, the next choice of qualifier would be 
> classification based (the highest level where they are distinct).

That is perfectly fine.  I wanted to stay consistent with the precedent, 
but couldn't find state-level identifications in the Ethnologue pages 
(though I see it now for 'arx').

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