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As a result of a formal request from the National Libraries of Serbia and Croatia and those countries' national standards bodies to the ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee, the MARC language codes for Serbian and Croatian will be changed as below from the ISO 639-2 bibliographic codes (ISO 639-2/B) to the ISO 639-2 terminology codes (ISO 639-2/T). This change also supports established usage in bibliographic databases in Croatia. Because the codes are obsolete, rather than deleted, they may still appear in bibliographic records created before the implementation of this change.
| New code | Language name | Previously coded |
|---|---|---|
| srp | Serbian | scc |
| hrv | Croatian | scr |
Subscribers can anticipate receiving MARC records reflecting these changes
in all distribution services not earlier than September 1, 2008. Questions
regarding the language codes should be directed to:
Network Development & MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-4305
(202) 707-6237
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