One new registration and some minor editorial changes

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Thu Feb 25 14:54:48 CET 2010


I tested the 100+ incremental changes by manually plugging the proposed 
records into an existing copy of the Registry, and comparing the result 
with a programmatically generated copy of the Registry built using the 
ISO 639-3 files directly.  In doing so, I found one additional 639-3 
change that was not announced by the RA, plus two minor and hopefully 
non-controversial editorial errors that need to be fixed before 
submission.

(1) The macrolanguage 'hmn' for Hmong was expanded to include 'hmz' for 
"Hmong Shua; Sinicized Miao," correcting what was apparently an 
oversight by the RA.  We need to reflect this by adding a Macrolanguage 
field to the record for the subtag 'hmz'.  Section 3.4, item 10 permits 
us to add this field in response to RA action.  No extlangs are 
involved, and no change needs to be made to 'hmn'.

Submitting this change along with the others means that the IANA 
submission date needs to be pushed back to 2 weeks from today, or March 
11.  If anyone feels strongly that the other changes need to be 
submitted on March 5 as previously planned, please say so.  (John Cowan 
suggested earlier that these could be sent to IANA in batches.)

Also, moving the submission date to the right means that the File-Date 
and relevant Added or Deprecated dates in the records will be updated to 
2010-03-11 before submission.  This has been done regularly in the past; 
I do not believe it conflicts with Section 3.5 about posting the "final 
record" one week before submission.

(2) The proposed record for 'bnc' (name changing to Bontok) erroneously 
gives the Added date as 2005-10-16.  The actual Added date is 
2009-07-29.  Since the Added date does not appear in the registration 
form, there is no need to change that form.

(3) The record and registration form for 'lv' (Latvian) show a new 
field, "Scope: Macrolanguage".  The word "macrolanguage" should be 
lowercased here.

Below are the records and registration forms that implement these 
changes.  These will also be posted on my "2010changes" Web page.

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2010-03-12
%%
Type: language
Subtag: hmz
Description: Hmong Shua
Description: Sinicized Miao
Added: 2009-07-29
Macrolanguage: hmn
%%

---

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
3. Record Requested:

   Type: language
   Subtag: hmz
   Description: Hmong Shua
   Description: Sinicized Miao
   Macrolanguage: hmn

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

5. Reference to published description
   of the language (book or article):

6. Any other relevant information:

   This registration tracks a change made to ISO 639-3 effective
   2010-01-20, reclassifying the existing code element 'hmz' for "Hmong
   Shua; Sinicized Miao" as an encompassed language under the
   macrolanguage 'hmn' for Hmong.  No languages encompassed under 'hmn'
   have extended language subtags in the Registry.

---

LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2010-03-05
%%
Type: language
Subtag: bnc
Description: Bontok
Added: 2009-07-29
Scope: macrolanguage
%%

---

LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2010-03-05
%%
Type: language
Subtag: lv
Description: Latvian
Added: 2005-10-16
Suppress-Script: Latn
Scope: macrolanguage
%%

---

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
3. Record Requested:

   Type: language
   Subtag: lv
   Description: Latvian
   Suppress-Script: Latn
   Scope: macrolanguage

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

5. Reference to published description
   of the language (book or article):

6. Any other relevant information:

   This registration tracks a change made to ISO 639-3 effective
   2010-01-20, reclassifying the ISO 639-3 code element 'lav' (Latvian,
   which is represented by ISO 639-1 'lv' in the Language Subtag
   Registry) as a macrolanguage encompassing 'ltg' (Latgalian) and 'lvs'
   (Standard Latvian).

   For more information on the ISO 639-3 change, refer to
   http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/639-3_ChangeRequests_2009_Summary.pdf 
.


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