[Ltru] 'car' in different ISO 639 parts

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Mon Jun 9 19:47:09 CEST 2008


> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan at ccil.org]


> > This is an inconsistency in ISO 639 that the JAC should resolve: 639-
> 5
> > is giving a very different denotation from -2/-3 -- a collection
> scope
> > versus individual-language scope -- which is something that should
> > never happen.
>
> It would be good if the JAC could expedite this.

I have raised the issue.


> Does the provision for "rest groups" in 639-5 and their treatment as
> full families mean that the effort to remove "(Other)" in 639-2 is a
> dead letter now?

I'm guessing it might.



Peter


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