Swaziland becomes Eswatini

ISO 3166 has changed the name of Swaziland ('SZ') to Eswatini, in both 
English and French:

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:SZ

The corresponding change to UN M.49 was made on or just before June 11:

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/

ISO 3166 is the source of initial names of regions in the Language 
Subtag Registry. There is no obligation for region names in the Registry 
to follow changes in ISO 3166 strictly. However, nearly all region names 
in the Registry do follow a normalized form of the ISO 3166 name.

The new name has the same meaning ("land of the Swazis") in the Swati 
language that the old name has in English.

The capitalization of "Eswatini" in various languages has raised some 
questions since King Mswati III declared the name change in April. The 
spelling in Swati is "eSwatini." ISO 3166 reflects this, but for both 
English and French they use the spelling "Eswatini," capitalized as 
shown. UN M.49 additionally uses the capitalization "Эсватини" in 
Russian, which is not an ISO 3166 language. I also found an 
English-language article on the Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications 
Corporation website that uses the form "Eswatini."

I would like to propose adding the name "Eswatini" as the primary 
Description field and keeping "Swaziland" as an additional Description 
field:

Type: region
Subtag: SZ
Description: Eswatini
Description: Swaziland
Added: 2005-10-16

Comments, please.

--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org

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