GNU gettext updates for ISO 639-1

[Paul Eggert]

I reviewed the recent updates to ISO 639-1 and came up with the
following proposed changes to the GNU gettext documentation.

2002-04-14  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * doc/ISO_639: Update from the 2002-02-26 version of ISO 639-1
        technical content.  This adds codes for ak, av, bm, cr, dv,
        ee, ff, ig, io, kg, kr, lg, lu, oj, ve, wa; renames jw to jv;
        and changes the English-language labels for ab, be, cu, dz,
        el, es, fa, fj, fo, gd, gl, ha, he, ia, id, ik, ki, kj, kl,
        ky, lb, lo, lv, mh, my, na, nd, nr, nv, ny, oc, om, pa, ps,
        rn, rw, sg, si, ss, st, sw, tg, tn, to, vo, yi, za.

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RCS file: doc/ISO_639,v
retrieving revision 0.11.1.0
retrieving revision 0.11.1.1
diff -pu -r0.11.1.0 -r0.11.1.1
--- doc/ISO_639 2001/04/17 15:14:34     0.11.1.0
+++ doc/ISO_639 2002/04/14 07:45:41     0.11.1.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F)
-"Code for the representation of names of languages".
+Technical contents of ISO 639-1
+"Code for the representation of names of languages -- Part 1: Alpha-2 code".
 
 Typed by address@hidden 1990-11-30
 Minor corrections, 1992-09-08 by Keld Simonsen
@@ -11,26 +11,31 @@ Sinhalese corrected, 1995-10-10 by Micha
 Faeroese corrected to Faroese, 1995-11-18 by Keld Simonsen
 Updated from http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html,
 2001-04-17 by Bruno Haible
+Updated from http://www.rtt.org/ISO/TC37/SC2/WG1/639/ISO639-identifiers.html
+(2002-02-26) by Paul Eggert.
 
 Two-letter lower-case symbols are used.
 The Registration Authority for ISO 639 is Infoterm, Osterreichisches
 Normungsinstitut (ON), Postfach 130, A-1021 Vienna, Austria.
 
 aa Afar
-ab Abkhazian
+ab Abkhazian; Abkhaz
 ae Avestan
 af Afrikaans
+ak Akan
 am Amharic
 ar Arabic
 as Assamese
+av Avar; Avarish
 ay Aymara
 az Azerbaijani
 
 ba Bashkir
-be Byelorussian; Belarusian
+be Belarusian
 bg Bulgarian
 bh Bihari
 bi Bislama
+bm Bambara
 bn Bengali; Bangla
 bo Tibetan
 br Breton
@@ -40,38 +45,42 @@ ca Catalan
 ce Chechen
 ch Chamorro
 co Corsican
+cr Cree
 cs Czech
-cu Church Slavic
+cu Old Slavonic; Old Church Slavonic; Church Slavic; Old Bulgarian
 cv Chuvash
 cy Welsh
 
 da Danish
 de German
-dz Dzongkha; Bhutani
+dv Divehi; Maldivian
+dz Dzongkha; Bhutani; Butanese
 
-el Greek
+ee Ewe
+el Modern Greek (post 1453)
 en English
 eo Esperanto
-es Spanish
+es Spanish; Castilian
 et Estonian
 eu Basque
 
-fa Persian
+fa Farsi; Persian
+ff Fulah; Fula; Fulani; Fulfulde; Peul
 fi Finnish
-fj Fijian; Fiji
-fo Faroese
+fj Fijian
+fo Faroese; Faeroese
 fr French
 fy Frisian
 
 ga Irish
-gd Scots; Gaelic
-gl Gallegan; Galician
+gd Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic
+gl Galician; Gallegan
 gn Guarani
 gu Gujarati
 gv Manx
 
-ha Hausa (?)
-he Hebrew (formerly iw)
+ha Hausa
+he Hebrew
 hi Hindi
 ho Hiri Motu
 hr Croatian
@@ -79,40 +88,46 @@ hu Hungarian
 hy Armenian
 hz Herero
 
-ia Interlingua
-id Indonesian (formerly in)
+ia Interlingua (International Auxilary Language Association)
+id Indonesian
 ie Interlingue
-ik Inupiak
+ig Igbo
+ik Inupiaq
+io Ido
 is Icelandic
 it Italian
 iu Inuktitut
 
 ja Japanese
-jw Javanese
+jv Javanese
 
 ka Georgian
-ki Kikuyu
-kj Kuanyama
+kg Kongo
+ki Kikuyu; Gikuyu
+kj Kwanyama; Kuanyama
 kk Kazakh
-kl Kalaallisut; Greenlandic
+kl Greenlandic; Kalaallisut
 km Khmer; Cambodian
 kn Kannada
 ko Korean
+kr Kanuri
 ks Kashmiri
 ku Kurdish
 kv Komi
 kw Cornish
-ky Kirghiz
+ky Kyrgyz; Kirghiz
 
 la Latin
-lb Letzeburgesch
+lb Luxembourgish
+lg Luganda; Ganda
 ln Lingala
-lo Lao; Laotian
+lo Laotian; Lao
 lt Lithuanian
-lv Latvian; Lettish
+lu Luba-Katanga
+lv Latvian
 
 mg Malagasy
-mh Marshall
+mh Marshallese
 mi Maori
 mk Macedonian
 ml Malayalam
@@ -121,45 +136,46 @@ mo Moldavian
 mr Marathi
 ms Malay
 mt Maltese
-my Burmese
+my Myanmar; Burmese
 
-na Nauru
+na Nauruan
 nb Norwegian address@hidden
-nd Ndebele, North
+nd North Ndebele
 ne Nepali
 ng Ndonga
 nl Dutch
 nn Norwegian Nynorsk
 no Norwegian
-nr Ndebele, South
-nv Navajo
-ny Chichewa; Nyanja
-
-oc Occitan; Proven@,{c}al
-om (Afan) Oromo
+nr South Ndebele
+nv Navajo; Navaho
+ny Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja
+
+oc Occitan; Proven@,{c}al (post 1500)
+oj Ojibwa
+om Oromo; Afan Oromo; Galla
 or Oriya
 os Ossetian; Ossetic
 
-pa Panjabi; Punjabi
+pa Punjabi; Panjabi
 pi Pali
 pl Polish
-ps Pashto, Pushto
+ps Pashto; Pushto
 pt Portuguese
 
 qu Quechua
 
 rm Rhaeto-Romance
-rn Rundi; Kirundi
+rn Kirundi; Rundi
 ro Romanian
 ru Russian
-rw Kinyarwanda
+rw Kinyarwanda; Rwanda
 
 sa Sanskrit
 sc Sardinian
 sd Sindhi
 se Northern Sami
-sg Sango; Sangro
-si Sinhalese
+sg Sango; Sangho
+si Sinhala; Sinhalese; Singhalese
 sk Slovak
 sl Slovenian
 sm Samoan
@@ -167,21 +183,21 @@ sn Shona
 so Somali
 sq Albanian
 sr Serbian
-ss Swati; Siswati
-st Sesotho; Sotho, Southern
+ss Swazi; Swati; Siswati
+st Sesotho; Southern Sotho
 su Sundanese
 sv Swedish
-sw Swahili
+sw Swahili; Kiswahili
 
 ta Tamil
 te Telugu
-tg Tajik
+tg Tajiki
 th Thai
 ti Tigrinya
 tk Turkmen
 tl Tagalog
-tn Tswana; Setswana
-to Tonga (?)
+tn Setswana; Tswana
+to Tongan (Tonga Islands)
 tr Turkish
 ts Tsonga
 tt Tatar
@@ -193,16 +209,18 @@ uk Ukrainian
 ur Urdu
 uz Uzbek
 
+ve Venda
 vi Vietnamese
-vo Volap@"{u}k; Volapuk
+vo Volap@"{u}k
 
+wa Walloon
 wo Wolof
 
 xh Xhosa
 
-yi Yiddish (formerly ji)
+yi Yiddish
 yo Yoruba
 
-za Zhuang
+za Zhuang; Chuang
 zh Chinese
 zu Zulu