FOR ARCHIVING: Registration form for 'lvs' (extlang)

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
3. Record Requested:

   Type: extlang
   Subtag: lvs
   Description: Standard Latvian
   Preferred-Value: lvs
   Prefix: lv
   Macrolanguage: lv

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

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

6. Any other relevant information:

   This registration tracks a change made to ISO 639-3 effective
   2010-01-20, adding the code element 'lvs' for Standard Latvian,
   encompassed by the macrolanguage code element 'lav' (Latvian, which
   is represented by ISO 639-1 'lv' in the Language Subtag Registry).
   Both a primary language subtag and an extended language subtag were
   added for this code element.

   For more information on the ISO 639-3 change, refer to
   http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/639-3_ChangeRequests_2009_Summary.pdf .