It’s true. This language is as far as anyone knows identical to Serbian 
according to the classification we currently use. It is not certain that there 
could be a Monenegrin Wiki that would differ in any meaningful way from the 
Serbian one.  

> On 26 Dec 2017, at 22:43, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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, 
> 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 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
> 
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