LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM

Name of requester          : Peter Constable
E-mail address of requester: <petercon&microsoft.com>
Tag to be registered       : iu-Latn

English name of language   : Inuktitut in Latin script
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): inuktitut

Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

Inuktitut is customarily written both in Latin script and in the Canadian 
Aboriginal Syllabic script.

It is often required, when matching languages, to select a subset of documents 
written in a particular script. When looking up language resources, this is 
even more important, so that text in different scripts is not mixed.

Thus, it is important to be able to distinguish between scripts used in 
writing iu: iu-Latn vs. iu-Cans.

References:
http://www.gov.nu.ca/cley/english/language.htm
http://www.language-museum.com/i/inuktitut-eastern-canadian.htm (Latin script) 
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/esb.htm (syllabic script)
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(created 12 April 2005)

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