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=Language Codes, Scripts, and Associated Country Codes= |
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The following table lists the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639 ISO 639] two letter language codes (or three letter codes where no two-letter code exists) along with associated [http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html ISO 15924] script code(s), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 ISO 3166] country code(s), and charset encodings. |
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<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">''Note that ISO 639-2 defines two sets of three-letter codes: bibliographic and terminologic. The bibliographic codes resemble Z39.53 and the names of languages in English; the terminologic codes resemble the two-letter codes and the names languages have for themselves. There are 22 languages where these codes differ, see'' [http:#639note below] ''for a complete list; in every case there is a 2-letter code for the language.'' ''We should pick one of these two sets and standardize on it. Other metadata projects, like Dublin Core, suggest that the "bibliographic set is preferred for metadata because of its widespread use in bibliographic agencies." On the other hand, the terminologic set would be less confusing due to its similarity with the two-letter codes. I would suggest that [[MusicBrainz]] should'' '''use the terminologic (ISO 639-2/T) codes only'''. [[User:Dupuy|@alex]] |
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In the interest of brevity and relevance, the complete ISO 639 list is not used. The following categories are omitted: |
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* Historical variants of modern languages (e.g. Old French, Ancient Greek) |
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* Historical languages without modern pronounciation (e.g. Linear B, Phoenician, Egyptian) |
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* Sign languages (for obvious reasons, this ''is'' [[MusicBrainz]]) |
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* Catch-all codes (with "(Other)") |
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* Languages written only in scripts not [http://www.unicode.org/onlinedat/languages-scripts.html representable with Unicode] |
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Furthermore, to be listed, a language has to have at least one of the following: |
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* A Wikipedia with more than 100 articles |
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* GNU / Linux locale for perror() |
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* Windows or Macintosh [http://www.unicode.org/onlinedat/languages.html language code] |
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* Google localization (ISO 639 code required; no h4x0r or swedish chef) |
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| ar || Arabic || Arab || AE BH DZ EG IQ JO KW LB LY MA MR OM PS SA SD SY TN YE || '''8859-6''' |
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| en || English || Latn || GB US + many others || ASCII '''8859-1''' 8859-* |
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| gr || Greek || Grek || GR || '''8859-7''' |
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| he || Hebrew || Hebr || IL || '''windows-1255''' 8859-8 8859-8-i |
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| jp || Japanese || Hani+Hrkt || JP || Shift-JIS EUC-JP Big5 '''UTF-8''' |
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| kr || Korean || Hang+Hani || KD KR || EUC-KR '''UTF-8''' |
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| ru || Russian || Cyrl || RU || KOI8-R '''windows-1251''' 8859-5 |
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| tlh || Klingon || Latn || || '''ASCII''' |
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| th || Thai || Thai || TH || '''8859-11''' |
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| zh || Chinese || Hant || HK TW || GB18030 '''UTF-8''' |
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| zh || Chinese || Hans || CN HK || Big5 '''UTF-8''' |
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(this is incomplete, but intended to demonstrate the table contents) |
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<span id="639note"></span> [1] Differences between ISO 639-2/B and 639-2/T: |
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| Bibl || Term || 639-1 || Language |
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| alb || sqi || sq || Albanian |
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| arm || hye || hy || Armenian |
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| baq || eus || eu || Basque |
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| bur || mya || my || Burmese |
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| chi || zho || zh || Chinese |
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| cze || ces || cs || Czech |
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| dut || nld || nl || Dutch |
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| fre || fra || fr || French |
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| geo || kat || ka || Georgian |
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| ger || deu || de || German |
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| gre || ell || el || Greek |
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| ice || isl || is || Icelandic |
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| mac || mkd || mk || Macedonian |
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| mao || mri || mi || Maori |
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| may || msa || ms || Malay |
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| per || fas || fa || Persian |
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| rum || ron || ro || Romanian |
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| scc || srp || sr || Serbian |
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| scr || hrv || hr || Croatian |
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| slo || slk || sk || Slovak |
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| tib || bod || bo || Tibetan |
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| wel || cym || cy || Welsh |
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[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Documentation]] |
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