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ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ISO 639 consists of different parts, of which two parts are currently published. The other parts are works in progress.
Parts of ISO 639
There are two items for ISO 639:
- ISO 639-1:2002 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 1: Alpha-2 code
- ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 2: Alpha-3 code
In other words, there are two-letter codes and three-letter codes. Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes. For these languages, the first three-letter code is for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B), and the second three-letter code is for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T).
The following parts are still being developed:
- ISO 639-3:2006? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages [1] (http://xml.coverpages.org/Nx74Clews-part3.pdf)
- ISO 639-4:2007? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 4: Implementation guidelines and general principles for language coding
- ISO 639-5:2006? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 5: Alpha-3 code for language families and groups
See also
List of language codes
The following incomplete list is sorted by language name in the third column.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z External links
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
| Alpha-3 | Alpha-2 | Language name
|
| que | qu | Quechua
|
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
| Alpha-3 | Alpha-2 | Language name
|
| xho | xh | Xhosa
|
Y
Z
External links
da:ISO 639
de:ISO 639
eo:ISO 639
es:ISO 639
fr:ISO 639
ia:ISO 639
ko:ISO 언어부호표
nl:ISO 639
ru:ISO 639
sl:ISO 639
sv:ISO 639
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