Subject: [Ietf-languages] ISO 639-3 changes and proposed forms: Intro and Section 1

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 19:04:33 -0700

ISO 639-3/RA has announced the results of its annual change request series, and posted the results and revised code tables on its web site (https://iso639-3.sil.org/).

Every year, this requires corresponding changes to the Language Subtag Registry. This has now been completed, and as usual I will post the proposed records and registration forms to this list in separate messages, mapped to specific sections of the RA's Summary of Outcomes document, in hopes of improving the ease of reviewing.

The posts which follow correspond to these Summary of Outcomes headings (which I will not repeat in each post):

1. Deprecations (retirements) from other than a split of a language code element

2. Deprecations (retirements) and creations from code element splits

3. Entirely new code elements

4. Updates: Name, Scope, Macrolanguage membership, Denotation changes

Section 3 includes six new sign languages; as required, both a primary language subtag and an extended language ("extlang") subtag are proposed for these.

Section 4 includes some changes in denotation. This basically means that language A has been retired in ISO 639-3 and merged into language B. The equivalent in BCP 47 is that A is deprecated with a Preferred-Value of B, which involves a change to the Registry record for A but not for B. Consequently, there are no forms in Section 4 for the "denotation" changes.

All of these forms have a review period ending on Friday, February 19 AoE. Please review them, mostly for clerical errors, as the actual content is the domain of ISO 639-3/RA.

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2021-xx-xx
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Type: language
Subtag: pat
Description: Papitalai
Added: 2009-07-29
Deprecated: 2021-xx-xx
Preferred-Value: kxr
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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: pat
Description: Papitalai
Deprecated: 2021-xx-xx
Preferred-Value: kxr

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
2021-01-22, merging 'pat' for Papitalai into 'kxr'.

For more information on the ISO 639-3 change, refer to:
https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/reports/639-3_ChangeRequests_2020_Summary.pdf

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2021-xx-xx
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Type: language
Subtag: bic
Description: Bikaru
Added: 2009-07-29
Deprecated: 2021-xx-xx
Preferred-Value: bir
%%

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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: bic
Description: Bikaru
Deprecated: 2021-xx-xx
Preferred-Value: bir

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
2021-01-22, merging 'bic' for Bikaru into 'bir'.

For more information on the ISO 639-3 change, refer to:
https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/reports/639-3_ChangeRequests_2020_Summary.pdf

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2021-xx-xx
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Type: language
Subtag: blg
Description: Balau
Added: 2009-07-29
Deprecated: 2021-xx-xx
Preferred-Value: iba
%%

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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: blg
Description: Balau
Deprecated: 2021-xx-xx
Preferred-Value: iba

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
2021-01-22, merging 'blg' for Balau into 'iba'.

For more information on the ISO 639-3 change, refer to:
https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/reports/639-3_ChangeRequests_2020_Summary.pdf

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