ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
According to the Wikipedia article Moldavian is written in the Latin script.
It is only in the break away region of Transnistria that it is written in
Cyrillic. Consequently I think that the two changes are wrong.
Thanks,
        Gerard

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Mark Davis <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:

> Deprecation of "mo" is a welcome step; whenever BCP47 has two separate
> codes for entities that are really dialects, regional variants, or
> orthographic variants of a single language, it just causes problems for any
> software that has to deal with them. Thus one ends up having to have a
> special hack to treat "mo" as if it were "ro-Cyrl-MD". Introducing a formal
> deprecation in ISO and then the IANA registry alerts people and software as
> to the underlying relationship, and allows simpler canonicalization to a
> unique form for comparison. People can still call "ro-Cyrl-MD" by the term
> "Moldovan".
>
> ===
>
> There are, however, two changes that need to be made to the IANA registry
> for this:
>
> A. 'mo':
> - deprecate and add preferred code "ro-Cyrl".
>
> B. 'ro':
> - remove the suppress-script of Latn
> - add a comment that Romanian as used in Moldavia ("ro-MD") is typically
> called "Moldovan" or "Moldavian" and written in Cyrillic. It is thus
> generally equivalent in function to "ro-Cyrl-MD".
>
> Mark
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Lang Gérard <gerard.lang at insee.fr> wrote:
>
>> Maybe, but this does not explain why "mo" and "mol" have been created and
>> used during this time. In particular, if "mol" has been created, there must
>> be some terminological or bibliographical entries (notably at the LC ?)
>> having used this code element ? Because "mol" was created in 1998, after the
>> 1994 Constitution of Moldova.
>> And if the Moldovan language academy recognization is new, is it between
>> 2008-06-26 (when ISO 639 RA/JAC  modified "mo" and "mol" by adding a new
>> language name variant) and now ?
>> Cordialement
>> Gérard LANG
>> De : John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org]
>> Envoyé : lundi 3 novembre 2008 16:30
>> À : Lang Gérard
>> Cc : Doug Ewell; ietf-languages at iana.org; havard at hjulstad.com
>>  Objet : Re: ISO 639 JAC decision re mo/mol
>>
>>  Lang Gérard scripsit:
>>
>> > How is it possible that this language name, that passed all criteria
>> > to be recognized inside ISO 639[-1] and ISO 639-2 during 20 or 10
>> > years, has now to be deprecated ?
>>
>> In a word, because political realities have finally caught up to
>> linguistic ones: the constitution may say "Moldovan language", but the
>> Moldovan language academy recognizes the facts on the ground, which are that
>> Moldovan is Romanian.
>>
>> --
>> But that, he realized, was a foolish            John Cowan
>> thought; as no one knew better than he          cowan at ccil.org
>> that the Wall had no other side.
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>>        --Arthur C. Clarke, "The Wall of Darkness"
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