Re: Panjabi or Punjabi?

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 11:14:37 EST

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    Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu> wrote:

    > I just found a difference between online reference on official ISO 639
    > names of the "pa" language.
    >
    > <http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt> mentions:
    >
    > pa Punjabi
    >
    > while <http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html> says:
    >
    > Panjabi pendjabi pan pa
    >
    > Which spelling is the official ISO 639 one?

    All four of the lists at the ISO 639-2/RA site show "Panjabi" with an A.
    I would trust those every time over a secondary-source list, even one
    prepared by Keld Simonsen.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California



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