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Abstract. This document specifies the ISO 639 language code and establishes the harmonized terminology and general principles of language coding. It provides rules for the selection, formation, presentation and use of language identifiers as well as language reference names.
This document specifies the ISO 639 language code and establishes the harmonized terminology and general principles of language coding. It provides rules for the selection, formation, presentation and use of language identifiers as well as language reference names.
ISO 639 gives comprehensive provisions for the identification and assignment of language identifiers to individual languages, and for the creation of new language code elements or for the modification of existing ones (Terms of Reference of the ISO639/MA). This is the official site of the Language Coding Agency for ISO 639 Set 3. Questions?
ISO 639-1: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages - Part 1: Two-letter codes for languages. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ISO 639-1 provides two-character lowercase alphabetic strings that serve as identifiers of languages.
May 1, 2014 · ISO 639 consists of the following parts, under the general title Codes for the representation of names of languages: Part 1: Alpha-2 code. Part 2: Alpha-3 code. Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages. Part 4: Implementation guidelines and general principles for language coding.
Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages. Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by the English name of language. Note: ISO 639-2 is the alpha-3 code. Where two codes are provided (21 languages total), the bibliographic code is given first and the terminology code is given second. ISO 639-1 is the alpha-2 code.
Home. Blog. What are ISO 639 language codes? Share this: What are ISO 639 language codes? ISO 639 language codes exist to identify the languages, dialects and language scripts worldwide. It is an international standardization of linguistic codes. The most important for localization are: the 639-1, 639-2, and 639-3 ISO code set. ISO 639 basics.
