ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol

[Ihar Mahaniok]

Hi all,

How is the official language of Transnistrian Moldovan Republic to be
identified from now on?
They use Moldovan in Cyrillic script, and both people and authorities
of this de-facto independent territory would definitely object calling
this language "Romanian".

Ihar

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Håvard Hjulstad <HHj at standard.no> wrote:
> The ISO 639 Registration Authorities' Joint Advisory Committee has decided:
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> The identifiers mo and mol are deprecated
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> leaving ro and ron/rum the current language identifiers to be used for the
> variant of the Romanian language also known as Moldavian and Moldovan in
> English and moldave in French. (The identifier ron is used in the ISO 639-2
> T table; the identifier rum in the ISO 639-2 B table.)
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> The identifiers mo and mol will not be assigned to different items, and
> recordings using these identifiers will not be invalid.
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> Best regards,
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> Håvard Hjulstad
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