Re: Panjabi or Punjabi? (fwd)

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh sharif edu>]

I asked about Panjabi<->Punjabi on the Unicode mailing list, and these 
were the answers. This means that the correct and official spelling is 
"Panjabi".

roozbeh

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:04:53 +0530
From: rajesh@inflibnet.ac.in
To: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
Subject: Re: Panjabi or Punjabi?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:30 PM
Subject: Panjabi or Punjabi?


> 
> 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?

Panjabi................pan

is the official code as per the ISO 639-2. 



Rajesh Chandrakar
Scientific and Technical Officer
Information & Library Network (NFLIBNET) Centre,
P.B. No. 4116, Navaragpura,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
India - 380 009


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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:44:56 +0000
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Panjabi or Punjabi?

Oxford lists Panjabi as a variant spelling of Punjabi. The
transliteration of the native designation is Pañjâbî (with macrons
not circumflexes).
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:34:45 -0600
From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
Subject: Re: Panjabi or Punjabi?

On 02/21/2003 02:00:03 AM Roozbeh Pournader 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?

Considering that the latter URL is the official site for ISO 639 and the
earlier one is not, I think the answer should be clear.


- Peter


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