Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

[CE Whitehead]

Hi!
My feeling is the resources listed with this proposal are primarily for Russian; 

to have a generic variant instead (and I'm not opposed to these) we'd need more generic resources--

though I do see Mark's point about the explosion of subtags!

 

Here are some possible generic resources:

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html

 

and

 

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/charsets.pdf

 

The second is useful because it lists special characters for all language romanized!

 

Best,

C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com 


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

 

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> 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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