Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Sun Nov 15 22:34:41 CET 2009


Looks like a well-formed request, and seems like it would be useful.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Avram Lyon
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 9:07 PM
To: ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

Dear members of the ietf-languages mailing list,

I would like to propose a new variant subtag for the Library of Congress romanization of Russian, described below. Per the requirements of RFC 4646, section 3.5, I am submitting it first to this list for community review.

In proposing this, I realize that perhaps it would be more appropriate to add the entire ALA-LC Romanization as a variant applicable to a larger set of languages. If so, then perhaps this subtag request should be modified to that end.

I look forward to the feedback of the community.

Sincerely,

Avram Lyon
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of California, Los Angeles

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
  1. Name of requester: Avram Lyon
  2. E-mail address of requester: ajlyon at ucla.edu
  3. Record Requested:

     Type: variant
     Subtag: rusloc
     Description: ALA-LC Romanization of Russian
     Prefix: ru-Latn
     Comments: Romanization of Russian recommended by the American Library Association and the Library of Congress for bibliographic and scholarly use.

  4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
This variant subtag is intended to apply to Russian text presented in the Library of Congress romanization, widely used in English-language academic works that discuss or employ Russian-language sources.

  5. Reference to published description
     of the language (book or article):
American Library Association and Library of Congress. 1997. "Russian".
ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html and http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/russian.pdf .

  6. Any other relevant information:
This romanization is used by leading journals in American Slavic studies, including _The Slavic Review_
(http://www.slavicreview.illinois.edu/info/manuscripts.html) and _Slavic and Eastern European Journal_ (http://www.aatseel.org/contributor_info). It is also the primary romanization for Russian used in United States library catalogs and at the British Library.
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