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An IETF best practice, specified by BCP 47, for language tags easy to parse by computer. The tag system is extensible to region, dialect, and private designations. It references ISO 639, ISO 3166 and ISO 15924.
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Linguasphere Register code-system published in 2000, containing over 32,000 codes within 10 sectors of reference, covering the world's languages and speech communities.
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Navigate also the hierarchy of the
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An extension of ISO 639‑2 to cover all known, living or dead, spoken or written languages in 7,589 entries.
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150:– Anglian (Old to Modern English, incl. Scots)
762:List of usual language codes and its variants
112:Intentionally do not resemble abbreviations.
769:Language Identifiers in the Markup Context
83:List of some common language code schemes
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309:– other English-based creoles and pidgins
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193:– English, as shortest ISO 639 code.
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246:List of ISO 639 language codes
47:Difficulties of classification
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420:Indo-European phylosector
385:– Spanish, Loreto-Ucayali
623:Flag icons for languages
634:List of ISO 639-2 codes
628:List of ISO 639-1 codes
391:– Spanish sign language
335:List of ISO 639-3 codes
281:List of ISO 639-2 codes
400:Linguasphere Register
736:Verbix language codes
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469:Scots + Northumbrian
97:Examples for Spanish
94:Examples for English
783:Language identifiers
560:, a publication of
345:– three-letter code
291:– three-letter code
228:UN M.49 region code
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379:– Spanish
327:ISO 639‑3
319:– Spanish
273:ISO 639‑2
265:– Spanish
237:ISO 639‑1
104:Glottolog
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164:olds1249
158:stan1288
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142:olde1238
136:merc1242
130:midd1317
124:macr1271
118:stan1293
57:variants
53:dialects
88:Scheme
64:Spanish
33:library
747:Verbix
721:8 June
675:, IETF
580:Verbix
511:51-AAA
442:52-ABA
224:es-419
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91:Notes
68:Mexico
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