ISO 639-2 request

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

After having gotten clarification that the LLG counts as a language
archive, I have requested the ISO 639 code "jbo" for Lojban.  If
granted to be deprecated, this will cause the existing art-lojban, though it
will remain usable.  Here is a copy of the form I filled out:

Request for new language code
Criteria for requesting new language codes.
ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-1

Name(s) of language (English): (Required) Lojban

If giving variant names, indicate preferred form first

Name(s) of language (French): lojban

If giving variant names, indicate preferred form first

Reference where found:
http://www.lojban.org/publications/brochures/brochure_french.txt

Name(s) of language (indigenous): la lojban. [note required final dot,
NOT a period]

If giving variant names, indicate preferred form first

Reference where found:
http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/intro.html


If in non-Roman script and supplying a romanized form, indicate
transliteration system used, if possible:  None.

Evidence of sufficient number of documents to establish separate code
per ISO 639-2 Annex A A.2.1 (request by one agency with 50 documents
or five agencies with a total of 50 among them). Please cite name of
institution(s) where documents are held and number at each. Example:
Library of Congress (65) (Required)

The Logical Language Group, a non-profit Virginia (U.S.) corporation,
holds a substantial archive in paper and electronic form of documents
in Lojban. There are at least 100 Lojban documents in this archive,
including original prose and poetry, translations, personal letters,
and other works.  Many of these works are also available online.
See http://www.lojban.org for contact information.

Additional information (e.g., estimated number of speakers, official
status, where spoken):

Lojban is a constructed language with several purposes, originally
designed to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but now extended to
international communication, human-computer communication, and others.
There are about 30-40 fluent speakers in all parts of the world, and
perhaps 300 who have some level of interest in the language.  Lojban has
no official status anywhere.

Request addition in (Note that ISO 639-1 is a subset of ISO 639-2):

    ISO 639-2 only -- yes ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 -- no

Code suggestions (Note that there is no guarantee that these codes will
be assigned): Alpha-3 code: (ISO 639-2)

jbo

Alpha-2 code: (ISO 639-1)

None.

Submitter of request

Name: (Required)  John Cowan

E-mail: (Required)  cowan@ccil.org

Status of submitter in relation to language (e.g., Speaker of language;
Academic/language teacher):

Non-fluent speaker of language, Vice President of Logical Language Group.

Note:  We are requesting the code "jbo" because it seems unlikely to be
assigned to any other language, is not used by the Ethnologue, and is a
combining form (bound morpheme) meaning "Lojban(ic)", in such words as
jbopli, Lojban user, and jbota'a, to talk in Lojban.

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