ISO 639 decision: arc = Official Aramaic; Imperial Aramaic

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Tue Jun 5 20:23:18 CEST 2007


Simon Montagu scripsit:

> So is there no specific language code for other forms of Aramaic? If I 
> have pages that use "arc" for quotations from the Zohar, what should I 
> use instead?

Until RFC 4646bis becomes effective, you are out of luck: at that time,
the code "tmr", which represents Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, will become
available.  (For that matter, nothing could stop you from using it now,
if this question happens to be actual rather than hypothetical.)

> the Aramaic Wikipedia with 412 articles at 
> http://arc.wikipedia.org/

Ouch.  Well, I have no idea which of the dozen or so modern Aramaic
languages is in use here, but 639-3 code elements for them exist.

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