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Hi!<BR><BR>
<H1><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" size=2 face=Arial>I tend to agree with what John says (reprinted below); there are so few two-letter and three-letter code elements available; you have to take what you can get; you cannot expect the code to correspond with the name.</FONT></H1>
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<FONT face=Arial>However, if Valencian turns out to have a separate literature, and Victor wants to apply for a language code such as "valencia" (8 characters, the max allowed), fine. If that goes through, ca-valencia will be deprecated with a 'preferred-value' of 'valencia' No problem.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Arial>However, if there is not a clear, ongoing distinct literature and/or if there is not sufficient difference between Valencian and Catalan, then I doubt Victor's request for such a code (or for any code for Valencian) will be granted.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Arial>And as I've said before, I'd personally prefer a 2-character code near the top of the list instead of something that will be hidden way down. So I'd leave the code as 'ca' for now.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Arial>Best,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT face=Arial>C. E. Whitehead</FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> </FONT><BR>
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<BR><B>John Cowan</B> <A title="Valencian Language Tag registration request" href="mailto:ietf-languages%40alvestrand.no?Subject=Valencian%20Language%20Tag%20registration%20request&In-Reply-To=68723E6B2E0EDC4999504D17DDE8F94906E35DB9%40S90X2HUB1.ad.insee.intra">cowan at ccil.org </A><BR><I>Thu Jun 18 20:20:03 CEST 2009</I>
<PRE> another for "gliban.", and so on
through the world's 7000+ languages.
><I> So that the coded entries of ISO 639 should be NAMES of LANGUAGES
</I>><I> (ideally the language's autonym, that is the name given by the
</I>><I> considered named language inside this considered language; so that there
</I>><I> should ideally be only one language name for every entry of ISO 639,
</I>><I> because this entry is exactly this name that is being coded).
</I>
So you are proposing that because Ainu (Japan) and Ainu (China), two
unrelated languages, share a name, they should also share a code?
It's time to put the "names of languages" canard to rest once and for all.
There may be a case that ISO 3166 encodes names of countries, but no
case at all for ISO 639.
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