Mismatch between ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3

[Mark Davis ☕]

Thanks for the very speedy reply. Do you have a sense of when
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/iso-639-3_xxxxxxxx.tab will be updated?

Mark

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 14:10, ISO639-3 <ISO639-3 at sil.org> wrote:

>  Mark,
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> [scr] and [scc] have been deprecated (I think that is the proper term) now
> in Part 2. I thought I had removed them from the published tables.
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> There is now no distinct Part 2B identifier in these two cases. There is
> now only the one identifier for each.
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>
> Thank you for bringing it to light.
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> Joan Spanne
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> SIL International
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> ISO 639-3 Registration Authority
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> iso639-3 at sil.org
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> *From:* ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:
> ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] *On Behalf Of *Mark Davis ?
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:31 PM
> *To:* ietf-languages at iana.org; ISO639-3 at sil.org; iso639-2 at loc.gov
> *Subject:* Mismatch between ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3
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> There is a discrepancy between ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 for certain
> three-letter codes. In particular, the bibliographic codes for Croatian
> and Serbian are  hrv and srp respectively in ISO 639-2, whereas ISO 639-3
> has them as scr and scc respectively. (There is also a mismatch in the
> '3-letter code' for "sh", but that is less important.)
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> My question is: which one should we believe: ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-3?
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> *Background*
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> For ISO 639-3, we have the following:
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> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/iso-639-3_20100202.tab
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> *Id*
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> *Part2B*
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> *Part2T*
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> *Part1*
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> *Scope*
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> *Language_Type*
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> *Ref_Name*
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> *Comment*
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> hrv
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> scr
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> hrv
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> hr
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> I
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> L
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> Croatian
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> srp
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> scc
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> srp
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> sr
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> I
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> L
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> Serbian
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> hbs
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> sh
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> M
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> L
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> Serbo-Croatian
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> Code element for 639-1 has been deprecated
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> On the other hand, we find the following in
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
> which matches http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt
>
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> *O 639-2 Code*
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> *ISO 639-1 Code*
>
> *English name of Language*
>
> *French name of Language*
>
> ...
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> hrv
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> hr
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> Croatian
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> croate
>
> ...
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> srp
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> sr
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> Serbian
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> serbe
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> ...
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> Differences between B and T are indicated in the first column, where they
> exist, such as:
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> wel (B)
> cym (T)
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> cy
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> Welsh
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> gallois
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> If there are no such differences, then B and T are the same. So this says
> that the B forms are hrv and srp respectively, whereas ISO 639-3 has them as
> scr and scc respectively.
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> For ISO 639-2, "sh" is in a different file (there doesn't seem to be a
> machine-readable form).
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> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php
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> [-sh]
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> (none)
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> Serbo-Croatian
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> serbo-croate
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> 2000-02-18
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> Dep
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> This code was deprecated...
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> In this case, the 3-letter code is indicated as none, while ISO 639-3 has
> it as hbs. This is not as problematic, because 'sh' has a funny status in
> 639-3.
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>
> Mark
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