ELL: Re: new work on ISO 639

[Julia Sallabank]

I would be grateful if someome could explain what this means!

Thanks

Julia


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From: <Peter_Constable at SIL.ORG>
To: <endangered-languages-l at carmen.murdoch.edu.au>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: ELL: new work on ISO 639


> 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.
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> - Peter
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> Peter Constable
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