I was going to hold off on this until the holidays are over, but rather 
remarkably, unless somebody hacked the Library of Congress's web 
site<https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php>, Montenegrin 
has been granted an ISO 639–2 code ("cnr"). This has been in the air over the 
last month, and represents the first addition to ISO 639–2 in over five  years. 
The Montenegrin community is jumping for joy, and I've just full-protected the 
page Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Montenegrin 
5<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Montenegrin_5>
 on Meta because the discussion is getting out of hand.


If srwiki, hrwiki and bswiki didn't exist, we wouldn't have to create this one, 
either. But I have to admit that I don't really see any way we can currently 
justify not approving this project (as "eligible"). My questions are, therefore:

  *   Am I right about that?
  *   Is LangCom willing to see this project marked as "eligible" based on an 
ISO 639-2 code alone?
  *   The rules are that non-collective ISO 639-2 codes are supposed to be 
reflected in ISO 639-3 as well. So do I wait until this code is published by 
SIL?
  *   If so, what happens if SIL does not take action?


Steven


Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>
_______________________________________________
Langcom mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom

Reply via email to