<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Saroj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarojchakma20@gmail.com" target="_blank">sarojchakma20@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, I want to know how to add Chakma Language in two letter code. We have 3 letter code in ISO 639-3 as ccp. </div>
</blockquote></div><br>The contact details for the ISO 639-1 Registration Authority are:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">Austrian Standards Institute</div><div class="gmail_extra">Österreichisches Normungsinstitut</div><div class="gmail_extra">Heinestrasse 38</div><div class="gmail_extra">A-1020 Wien</div><div class="gmail_extra">Austria</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Tel: +43 1 213 00 610 / +43 1 213 00 613</div><div class="gmail_extra">Fax: +43 1 213 00 609</div><div class="gmail_extra">E-mail: <a href="mailto:ceo@as-institute.at">ceo@as-institute.at</a></div><div class="gmail_extra">Website: <a href="http://www.as-institute.at">www.as-institute.at</a></div><div><br></div><div>However, it is very unlikely that Chakma will receive a 2-letter code. The text of ISO 639-1 states:</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The alpha-2 code was devised for practical use for most of the major languages of the world that are not only most frequently represented in the total body of the world’s literature, but which also comprise a considerable volume of specialized languages and terminologies.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>While there are some languages on the ISO 639-1 list that clearly don't qualify by this standard (e.g. Navajo 'nv'), it's unlikely that the Registration Authority will add any more. Furthermore, the Registration Authority as a matter of policy doesn't register any new 2-letter codes for languages that already have 3-letter codes. So in practice the 2-letter codes are a closed list.</div><div><br></div><div>In the modern era of language tagging, 2-letter codes are anachronistic, but we are stuck with them because they are already so widely used. Adding more of them serves no one well.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a></div><div>The first thing you learn in a lawin' family is that there ain't</div><div>no definite answers to anything. --Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird </div><div><br></div></div>