[lojban-beginners] Re: Language code for Lojban

[Martin Norbäck <d95mback@dtek.chalmers.se>]

mån 2003-03-31 klockan 14.33 skrev Philip Newton:
> On 31 Mar 2003 at 14:24, Jens Gutzeit wrote:
> 
> > Is there a language code (ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-2) for Lojban, like
> > "en" for English and "de" for German?
> 
> I don't think so (though Esperanto [epo, eo], Interlingue [ile, ie], 
> and Interlingua [ina, ia] have codes).
> 
> jbovlaste uses "art-loglan" and "art-lojban" IIRC, i.e. they use the 
> "art" ISO 639-2 code for "Artificial (Other)" and add the name of the 
> language (I suppose this is a bit like en-GB for "British English").

well, art-lojban is a name registered with the IANA
http://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-tags/art-lojban

It's not an official iso 639-2 code though. Reading the criteria for the
registration of a new code:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/criteria2.html
and more explained at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/faq.html#13
also see
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639jac_n3r.html

Seems you need at least 50 documents written in the language to qualify
for a language code. The language code "loj" is not assigned. Perhaps we
should try to get it assigned. We need 50 documents written in Lojban.
It would surprise me if the Logical Language Group hasn't looked into
this though.

As for the en-GB, this  is not an language code, you are probably
mistaking this with the use of en_GB for locales ("English, as spoken in
Great Britain").

Regards,

	Martin