LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell 2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org 3. Record Requested: Type: language Subtag: pny Description: Pinyin Comments: a Niger-Congo language spoken in Cameroon; not to be confused with the Pinyin romanization systems used for Chinese and Tibetan 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): Ethnologue description at http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=pny 6. Any other relevant information: The Pinyin language, spoken by ~24,600 people in Cameroon, is not related to the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system used for writing Chinese, or the Tibetan Pinyin romanization system used for writing Tibetan, in the Latin alphabet. These systems are represented by the variant subtag 'pinyin'.