Elfdalian

Phillips, Addison addison at lab126.com
Wed Jun 1 23:30:05 CEST 2016


Ur.... the registration form just contradicted the rule about field order that you just quoted (before I could get to it ;-))

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On
> Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 2:07 PM
> To: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>; ietflang IETF Languages
> Discussion <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Cc: ISO639-3 <ISO639-3 at sil.org>
> Subject: RE: Elfdalian
> 
> Michael Everson wrote:
> 
> > I do think that is is a mistake to call it Ovdalian (= Övdalian),
> > however, per our discussions here. Elfdalian seems to be the best name
> > for it. Our appeal only used the form “Elfdalian” and I was unaware
> > that the other name was in play.
> >
> > I’ve mentioned this to the RA, and if they make a change that would be
> > great. In the meantime, our subtag should list both names, with
> > Elfdalian first.
> 
> I completely agree that "Elfdalian" should be the preferred name.
> Unfortunately, the new 639-3 file "iso-639-3_Latin1_20160525.tab" lists only
> "Övdalian" (and "iso-639-3_20160525.tab" doesn't list [ovd] at all; more later).
> Since that makes "Övdalian" the 639-3 reference name, our standard
> requires us to list that first:
> 
> "For fields of type 'language', the first 'Description' field appearing in the
> registry corresponds whenever possible to the Reference Name assigned by
> ISO 639-3.  This helps facilitate cross-referencing between ISO 639 and the
> registry."
> 
> If and when the RA makes this change at a later date, we can (and must)
> reflect that in the Registry.
> 
> It looks like the changes to the 639-3 data files are not fully finished anyway,
> as [ovd] appears in the Latin-1 file but not in the UTF-8 file; these are
> supposed to be in sync. So perhaps they will make both changes at once.
> 
> In the meantime, I know everyone is eager to get this subtag into Registry, so
> here comes the paperwork for the mandatory two-week review:
> 
> ---
> 
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2016-xx-xx
> %%
> Type: language
> Subtag: ovd
> Description: Övdalian
> Description: Elfdalian
> Added: 2016-xx-xx
> %%
> 
> ---
> 
> 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: ovd
> Description: Övdalian
> Description: Elfdalian
> 
> 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 2016-05-27,
> adding the code element 'ovd' for Övdalian.
> 
> For more information on the ISO 639-3 change, refer to:
> http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-
> 3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_Comments_2015-046.pdf
> 
> 
> --
> Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
> 
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