<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have heard back from Anthony Aristar,
my LinguistList contact. LinguistList, as our partner agency advising on
ancient, historical, and constructed languages, had been the "originator"
of the Sakan code element. In working through the draft 639-3 code tables
and aligning them with ISO 639-2, matching Sakan with Khotanese was missed.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Anthony agrees that [xsk] ought to be
merged into [kho], with the proviso that "Sakan" be added as
a name used with [kho]. So I will take appropriate steps to that end.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Joan Spanne<br>
ISO 639-3/RA<br>
SIL International<br>
7500 W Camp Wisdom Rd<br>
Dallas, TX 75236<br>
ISO639-3@sil.org</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:16:37AM -0700,<br>
- <klncity@yahoo.com> wrote <br>
a message of 4 lines which said:<br>
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> In the descripton of Sakan [xsk] in linguistlist.org, it said that<br>
> the Sakan language is also named Khotanese; but Khotanese has<br>
> already a code [kho]. Do the two codes [kho] and [xsk] duplicate<br>
> each other?<br>
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In the current IETF/IANA language tag registry<br>
<http://www.langtag.net/registries.html>, kho (Khotanese) exists
but<br>
there is no code xsk.<br>
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In the future version (the successor of today's RFC 4646, which will<br>
be the first one to incorporate ISO 639-3), there will be a xsk for<br>
Sakan. See<br>
<http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=xsk><br>
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Now, are there the same language or not? Currently, ISO 639-3<br>
registration authority says no... And we follow them.<br>
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