Re: Swaziland becomes Eswatini

Are you sure it’s not eSwatini? That spelling structure is common in Bantu languages. (No, I didn’t go look it up.)

> On 17 Jul 2018, at 04:06, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

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