Alsatian answer from LOC

[Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com]

For what it's worth.... Read entire thread.


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Karen Broome/LA/SPE
02/22/2008 12:15 PM

To
"Rebecca S. Guenther" <rgue at loc.gov>
cc
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
Subject
Re: ISO 639-2 Language Code Change Request





Rebecca,

Thank you for your reply. How is this different from Schwyzerdütsch or 
Alemannic or Castilian? All of those are names for the language only in 
particular dialects. This seems to be inconsistent with the other 
alternate names found in ISO 639-2.

Regards,

Karen Broome




"Rebecca S. Guenther" <rgue at loc.gov> 
02/22/2008 07:27 AM

To
Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com
cc
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
Subject
Re: ISO 639-2 Language Code Change Request






I do apologize; I thought that Havard Hjulstad was going to respond. I am
sorry for the annoyance and am glad that you contacted me again.

Essentially the question we discussed is whether "Alsatian" is perceived
as a name of a dialect, or as a name for the language. If it is a dialect,
we do not necessarily add an alternate name for it, since we say in the
introduction that a dialect is coded for the language of which it is a
variant. But if some may consider "Alsatian" to be an alternate name by
which they refer to the language coded as "gsw", then we would add it. We
are not certain that indeed this is the case, so would ask that you give
evidence that "Alsatian" is used by some group of people as a language
name rather than the name of a dialect within that language.

If you could provide a citation from a reputable source that states that
indeed this is the case, we can add it as an alternate name.

Rebecca
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:

> IANA is still waiting on your answer. Has there been any progress? This 
is 
> delaying our ability to fulfill a tag request for this language.
> 
> Karen Broome
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> "Rebecca S. Guenther" <rgue at loc.gov> 
> 01/16/2008 06:24 AM
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> To
> karen_broome at spe.sony.com
> cc
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> Subject
> Re: ISO 639-2 Language Code Change Request
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> Karen:
> 
> I did receive this last week and the committee is currently discussing 
it.
> I will get back to you soon.
> 
> Rebecca
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^^  Rebecca S. Guenther                                   ^^
> ^^  Senior Networking and Standards Specialist            ^^
> ^^  Network Development and MARC Standards Office         ^^
> ^^  1st and Independence Ave. SE                          ^^
> ^^  Library of Congress                                   ^^
> ^^  Washington, DC 20540-4402                             ^^
> ^^  (202) 707-5092 (voice)    (202) 707-0115 (FAX)        ^^
> ^^  rgue at loc.gov                                          ^^
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> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, NDMSO wrote:
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> > 
> > ISO 639-2 Language Code Change Request.
> > 
> > English name of Language:   Swiss German
> > French name of Language:   alémanique
> > iso_639_2_b:   gsw
> > iso_639_2_t:   gsw
> > change_requested:   This request is to add \"Alsatian\" as a language 
> name to this entity. 
> > 
> > This request is in synch with the Ethnologue page for gsw referenced 
by 
> ISO 639-3. I am a member of the IETF language tags working group and the 

> inclusion of this name will help users looking for a code for Alsatian 
in 
> the IANA registry.
> > Submitter's name:   Karen Broome
> > Submitter's email :   karen_broome at spe.sony.com
> > Submitter's status :   I am in charge of metadata standards at Sony 
> Pictures and work with the LTRU group for the IETF. I also work with 
many 
> audiovisual technical standards that require codes for dubbed and 
> subtitled languages. I am the original registrant of the gsw tag.
> > 
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