2013/3/21, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
JP Béland, 01/03/2013 20:52:
I don't think such request regarding the "name of a language" has to go through CLDR, but through SIL (anyway, that's what I understood the last time). It seems to me that SIL is the "Registration Authority" for ISO 639-3 which is the standard for "Codes for the representation of names of languages". CLDR website points to it at several different places (especially when looking to add a new language to their locales).
I don't understand, does the language in question lack an ISO code?
Maybe it's possible to define a different "language name" within CLDR data for a specific locale than the language name contains in the ISO 639, I'm not sure.
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/
If somebody with more experience there could help sort out "who's who in the zoo" and what are the processes in general, that would be helpful to us.
It's right there in the page, «SIL International has been designated as the ISO 639-3/RA for the purpose of processing requests for alpha-3 language codes comprising the International Standard, Codes for the representation of names of languages - Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages». Only codes, not names.
Nemo