Hoi,
I was at a conference in Berlin this week. I had the honour to speak
with some of the authors of the ISO-639 code. The work on ISO-639-3 has
finished. They are now working on three new flavours of the code.
ISO-639-4, ISO639-5 and ISO-639-6. The last will be to indicate
dialects. There is nothing available to the public at this time.
Thanks,
GerardM
Mark Williamson wrote:
Ævar, as far as I know, they're equal to the
ISO/DIS 639-3 codes. Most
ISO/DIS 639-3 codes are taken directly from SIL, unless there is a
conflict with existing ISO standards.
While ISO/DIS 639-3 is still provisional, in all reasonable likelyhood
there will be no major changes to existing codes.
Mark
On 15/12/05, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Note: Some of these proposals propose using the three letter sil codes
> for the projects in question, this is higly unadvisable because there
> might be an ISO code issued that equals that code in the future
>