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ISO 639 Code Tables. This page offers a combined view of the language code tables of ISO 639 parts 1, 2, and 3. Select just the elements of the Part 1, 2, or 3 code, or show the set of code elements sorted by name. Viewing by name will enable you to browse for any name associated with a specific identifier, including an inverted form of a name ...
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These are lists of ISO 639-3 language codes . Enter an ISO 639-3 language code to find the corresponding article.
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This table lists all of two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage , and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence. Modern Hebrew.
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ISO 639-3 includes all languages in ISO 639-1 and all individual languages in ISO 639-2. ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 focused on major languages, most frequently represented in the total body of the world's literature. Since ISO 639-2 also includes language collections and Part 3 does not, ISO 639-3 is not a superset of ISO 639-2. Where B and T codesexi...
Since the code is three-letter alphabetic, one upper bound for the number of languages that can be represented is 26 × 26 × 26 = 17,576. Since ISO 639-2 defines special codes (4), a reserved range (520) and B-only codes(22), 546 codes cannot be used in part 3. Therefore, a stricter upper bound is 17,576 − 546 = 17,030. The upper bound gets even str...
There are 58 languages in ISO 639-2 which are considered, for the purposes of the standard, to be "macrolanguages" in ISO 639-3. Some of these macrolanguages had no individual language as defined by ISO 639–3 in the code set of ISO 639-2, e.g. 'ara' (Generic Arabic). Others like 'nor' (Norwegian) had their two individual parts ('nno' (Nynorsk), 'no...
"A collective language code element is an identifier that represents a group of individual languages that are not deemed to be one language in any usage context."These codes do not precisely represent a particular language or macrolanguage. While ISO 639-2 includes three-letter identifiers for collective languages, these codes are excluded from ISO...
Four codes are set aside in ISO 639-2and ISO 639-3 for cases where none of the specific codes are appropriate. These are intended primarily for applications like databases where an ISO code is required regardless of whether one exists. 1. mis(uncoded languages, originally an abbreviation for 'miscellaneous') is intended for languages which have not...
The code table for ISO 639-3 is open to changes. In order to protect stability of existing usage, the changes permitted are limited to: 1. modifications to the reference information for an entry (including names or categorizations for type and scope), 2. addition of new entries, 3. deprecation of entries that are duplicates or spurious, 4. merging ...
Linguists Morey, Post and Friedman raise various criticisms of ISO 639, and in particular ISO 639-3: 1. The three-letter codes themselves are problematic, because while officially arbitrary technical labels, they are often derived from mnemonic abbreviations for language names, some of which are pejorative. For example, Yemsa was assigned the code ...
Microsoft Windows 8:Supports all codes in ISO 639-3 at the time of release.Aristar, Anthony (2006). "ISO standardized language codes and the Ethnologue" (PDF). SSILA Bulletin. 247. Archived from the original (PDF)on 20 May 2014.Dobrin, Lise M.; Good, Jeff (2009). "Practical language development: Whose mission?" (PDF). Language. 85 (3): 619–629. doi:10.1353/lan.0.0152. S2CID 144749106.Epps, Patience (2006). "In opposition to adopting Ethnologue's language codes for ISO 639-3" (PDF). SSILA Bulletin. 246. Archived from the original (PDF)on 20 May 2014.Golla, Victor, ed. (2006). "SSILA statement on ISO 639-3 language codes" (PDF). SSILA Bulletin. 249. Archived from the original (PDF)on 20 May 2014.FAQ at the United States Library of CongresswebsitePending ISO 639-3 applications[dead link]ISO 639-3. Since the introduction of ISO 639-3 in 2007, access to language information has increased tremendously. The code set initially adopted as ISO639-3:2007 was based on a harmonization of ISO 639-2 with the code set of SIL’s Ethnologue 15th edition and languages from Linguist List to form a comprehensive set of code elements for world ...
The ISO 639 language code comprises four sets of language identifiers: Set 1: two-letter language identifiers (originally as in ISO 639-1:2002) for major, mostly national individual languages. Set 2: three-letter language identifiers (originally as in ISO 639-2:1998) for a larger number of widely known individual languages (including all ...
