RE: [Ltru] Punjabi

Hi Mark. An addendum to your question would be what they write. Might there be a pa-PK written standard? I don’t know, just asking. 

I will take the liberty of cc’ing the question to Dr. Sarmad Hussein of the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences in Lahore, who also heads the PAN L10n project in Asia ( http://www.panl10n.net ), in case he has any thoughts. 

Don

From: Mark Davis [mailto:mark.davis@icu-project.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:12 PM
To: LTRU Working Group; ISO639-3@sil.org; iso639-2@loc.gov
Subject: [Ltru] Punjabi

I have a question about Punjabi. ISO 639-2 gives "pan" as Punjabi. ISO 639-3 divides Punjabi into three separate codes:

pmu    Mirpur Panjabi
pnb    Western Panjabi
pan    Panjabi // called Eastern Panjabi in the Ethnologue. 

It looks from this that according to ISO 639-3, there is no macro language for Panjabi; Pakistanis don't speak "pan" (= "pa"), even as a macro language they speak something else. So a language pa-PK (or locale pa_PK) is probably a mistake. Is this a fair statement? 

-- 
Mark 