ELL: new work on ISO 639

Peter Constable Peter_Constable at SIL.ORG
Sat Aug 24 10:51:30 UTC 2002


Folk on this list will probably be interested to learn that ISO/TC 37 is
starting to work on a new part of ISO 639 (ISO 639-3) that will be
intended to provide identifiers for all known languages. It will be based
on the Ethnologue (with a one-timne change to some identifiers to ensure
compatibility with existing IDs in ISO 639-2) together with additional
work being done for EMELD by Linguist List to cover historic and
constructed languages.




- Peter


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Peter Constable

Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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E-mail: <peter_constable at sil.org>

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