Runyakitara (RE: New item in ISO 639-2 - Zaza)

Don Osborn dzo at bisharat.net
Thu Aug 24 15:37:06 CEST 2006


What are the guidelines and expert opinions re getting ISO-639 codes for an
engineered standard version of a set of very closely related tongues? A
prime example is Runyakitara in western Uganda. 

 

What sort of provisions will the evolving ISO-639 system have for cases
where language planning (called by one source a “resurgent” field) leads to
active steps to develop such standard language versions for use in
education, ICT, etc. ?

 

More info on Runyakitara with some links is at
http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Runyakitara (this is
a wiki page – the password for editing is Africa ). This is one of a number
of languages (or clusters) for which information for localization is being
gathered at
http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/MajorLanguages .

 

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

 

Don

 

Don Osborn, Ph.D.         dzo at bisharat.net

*Bisharat! A language, technology & development initiative

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http://www.bisharat.net

 

*PanAfrican Localisation Project

*Projet panafricain sur la localisation

http://www.bisharat.net/PanAfrLoc (new domain coming)

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