Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

Avram Lyon ajlyon at ucla.edu
Sun Nov 15 06:07:18 CET 2009


Dear members of the ietf-languages mailing list,

I would like to propose a new variant subtag for the Library of
Congress romanization of Russian, described below. Per the
requirements of RFC 4646, section 3.5, I am submitting it first to
this list for community review.

In proposing this, I realize that perhaps it would be more appropriate
to add the entire ALA-LC Romanization as a variant applicable to a
larger set of languages. If so, then perhaps this subtag request
should be modified to that end.

I look forward to the feedback of the community.

Sincerely,

Avram Lyon
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of California, Los Angeles

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
  1. Name of requester: Avram Lyon
  2. E-mail address of requester: ajlyon at ucla.edu
  3. Record Requested:

     Type: variant
     Subtag: rusloc
     Description: ALA-LC Romanization of Russian
     Prefix: ru-Latn
     Comments: Romanization of Russian recommended by the American
Library Association and the Library of Congress for bibliographic and
scholarly use.

  4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
This variant subtag is intended to apply to Russian text presented in
the Library of Congress romanization, widely used in English-language
academic works that discuss or employ Russian-language sources.

  5. Reference to published description
     of the language (book or article):
American Library Association and Library of Congress. 1997. "Russian".
ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman
Scripts. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html and
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/russian.pdf .

  6. Any other relevant information:
This romanization is used by leading journals in American Slavic
studies, including _The Slavic Review_
(http://www.slavicreview.illinois.edu/info/manuscripts.html) and
_Slavic and Eastern European Journal_
(http://www.aatseel.org/contributor_info). It is also the primary
romanization for Russian used in United States library catalogs and at
the British Library.


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