Anomaly in upcoming registry

[Doug Ewell]

Lang Gérard <gerard dot lang at insee dot fr> wrote:

> 11-ISO 639-5 (2008-05-15) includes the entry "sla", that an alpha-3 
> ISO 639-5 code element to represent the family language name "Slavic 
> languages (remainder group)", that is under the hierarchy of the 
> alpha-3 ISO 639-5 code element "ine" to represent the family language 
> name "Indo-European (remainder group)."

"Remainder group" is an ISO 639-5 term for an ISO 639-2 concept, viz. 
"Indo-European (Other)", and these were all effectively converted to 
full language groups on 2009-03-03 by changing the reference names. 
Check the change page at 
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php .

ISO 639-5/RA should consider updating their information to match that 
maintained by ISO 639-2/RA, especially since it's the same RA.

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