<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Nathan! Thanks for this highlight. I think a problematic aspect is that many change requests are submitted (and decided upon) based on unpublished reports. In the case of Ekai Chin<div><br></div><div>Language and Social Development Organization Survey Team. 2016. Sociolinguistic
Survey of the Ekai, Khulai, Daitu, Saingbaung, and Khamaw varieties spoken along the
Dalet Stream, Ann Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Unpublished manuscript.</div><div><br></div><div>Wouldn't it be better to put the horse before the cart and release the report before the change request that cites it, rather than vice versa?</div><div><br></div><div>all the best,</div><div>H</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Pada tanggal Kam, 7 Mar 2019 pukul 07.02 Nathan & Carey Statezni <<a href="mailto:nathan_statezni@sil.org">nathan_statezni@sil.org</a>> menulis:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,</div><div>Two topics confusingly combined into one email here:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><u><b>International Mother Language Day and International Year of Indigenous Languages</b><br></u><div>UNESCO has declared this year to be the International Year of Indigenous Languages (<a href="https://en.iyil2019.org/" target="_blank">https://en.iyil2019.org/</a>). Consider if there is an event you can organize to promote this! A national language development organization in Myanmar called Language and Social Development Organization (LSDO) has been hosting celebrations of International Mother Language Day in Yangon on February 21 for the last 3 years. They organized a larger event this year to also celebrate International Year of Indigenous Languages. Check out video coverage at their Facebook page: <a href="http://facebook.com/lsdomyanmar" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/lsdomyanmar</a> </div><div><br></div><div><b><u>2018 ISO changes</u></b></div><div>The following changes were made to TB languages in the ISO 639-3 standard based on requests in 2018. Note that I don't make the decisions, so don't blame me. :) <a href="https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/reports/639-3_ChangeRequests_2018_Summary.pdf" target="_blank">Here's </a>a report of the changes globally from 2018.<br></div><div><br></div><div><table class="gmail-m_-8062074226636045210gmail-MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none">
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</tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div>I was one of the parties making the request for adding Ekai Chin. They live in an under-researched area of Rakhine State (no prior mention in publications before our team visited). We found via recorded-text comprehension testing and confirmed by interviews that they had very low comprehension of neighboring varieties.</div><br class="gmail-m_-8062074226636045210gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div>The annual deadline for submitting requests for changes to the ISO standard is the end of August. The decisions (approved, rejected, etc.) then get made in the following January and get incorporated into the new version of the Ethnologue that is released on February 21st each year, International Mother Language Day. See more details on the process at <a href="https://iso639-3.sil.org/" target="_blank">https://iso639-3.sil.org/</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Nathan</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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