ISO 639-3 releases list of 2009 changes

[John Cowan]

Mark Davis â?? scripsit:

> If the argument is that ISO 639-3 can't make a change in X *because **the
> Ethnologue says Y, *it doesn't hold water, because the Ethnologue is neither
> part of nor normatively referenced by ISO 639-3.

No, it isn't.  But then the glyphs in the Unicode Standard aren't
normative either, but 'z' just isn't going to be a glyph for LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER Q.  It's just not that likely that ISO 639-3/RA will
change the meaning of code elements in a way which seriously contradicts
the information in the Ethnologue.  They are, after all, basically the
same set of people.

-- 
Dream projects long deferred             John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>
usually bite the wax tadpole.            http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
        --James Lileks