LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM: bs-Latn-BA
Peter Constable
petercon at microsoft.com
Thu Feb 3 22:47:49 CET 2005
LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
Name of requester : Peter Constable
E-mail address of requester: <petercon at microsoft.com>
Tag to be registered : bs-Latn-BA
English name of language : Bosnian in Latin script, as used in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): bosanski
Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
RFC 3066 currently provides for the tags bs for Bosnian, and bs-BA
for Bosnian as spoken in Bosnia and Hezegovina. Bosnian is customarily
written both in Cyrillic script and also in Latin script, however.
It is often required, when matching languages, to select a subset of
documents written in a particular script. When looking up language
resources, this is even more important, so that text in different
scripts is not mixed.
Thus, it is important to be able to distinguish between scripts
used in writing bs-BA: bs-Latn-BA vs. bs-Cyrl-BA
References:
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/src1.htm (Latin script)
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/src4.htm (Cyrillic script)
http://www.language-museum.com/b/bosnian-latin.php (Latin script)
http://www.language-museum.com/b/bosnian-cyrillic.php (Cyrillic script)
More information about the Ietf-languages
mailing list