Mismatch between ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3

[ISO639-3]

Mark,

 

[scr] and [scc] have been deprecated (I think that is the proper term) now in Part 2. I thought I had removed them from the published tables.

There is now no distinct Part 2B identifier in these two cases. There is now only the one identifier for each.

 

Thank you for bringing it to light.

 

 

Joan Spanne

SIL International

ISO 639-3 Registration Authority

iso639-3 at sil.org

 

 

 

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Mark Davis ?
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:31 PM
To: ietf-languages at iana.org; ISO639-3 at sil.org; iso639-2 at loc.gov
Subject: Mismatch between ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3

 

There is a discrepancy between ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 for certain three-letter codes. In particular, the bibliographic codes for Croatian and Serbian are  hrv and srp respectively in ISO 639-2, whereas ISO 639-3 has them as scr and scc respectively. (There is also a mismatch in the '3-letter code' for "sh", but that is less important.)

 

My question is: which one should we believe: ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-3?

 

Background


For ISO 639-3, we have the following:


http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/iso-639-3_20100202.tab

 


Id

Part2B

Part2T

Part1

Scope

Language_Type

Ref_Name

Comment


hrv

scr

hrv

hr

I

L

Croatian

	

srp

scc

srp

sr

I

L

Serbian

	

hbs

		sh

M

L

Serbo-Croatian

Code element for 639-1 has been deprecated

 

On the other hand, we find the following in
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
which matches http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt

 


O 639-2 Code

ISO 639-1 Code

English name of Language

French name of Language


...

			

hrv

hr

Croatian

croate


...

			

srp

sr

Serbian

serbe


...

			

 

Differences between B and T are indicated in the first column, where they exist, such as:

 


wel (B)
cym (T)

cy

Welsh

gallois

 

If there are no such differences, then B and T are the same. So this says that the B forms are hrv and srp respectively, whereas ISO 639-3 has them as scr and scc respectively.

 

For ISO 639-2, "sh" is in a different file (there doesn't seem to be a machine-readable form).

 

http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php

 


[-sh]

(none)

Serbo-Croatian

serbo-croate

2000-02-18

Dep

This code was deprecated...

 

In this case, the 3-letter code is indicated as none, while ISO 639-3 has it as hbs. This is not as problematic, because 'sh' has a funny status in 639-3.

 

Mark

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