Talk:List of ISO 639-1 codes
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I started expanding this list, but I've decided that I don't see the point, since I was just copying from List of ISO 639-2 codes which already includes all these. Maybe it would be better to just maintain one list of ISO 639-1 and -2 codes. I would even support calling it simply the List of ISO 639 codes and let ISO 639-3 be mentioned at the top as the draft that it is. Cpastern 03:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
- it's a list by code (by 639-1) which List of ISO 639-2 codes is not.
- calling it List of ISO 639 codes is not correct once the 639-3 codes are official.
- 639-1 is only a small subset. makes the list more handy then 639-2 list
- list could be an easy transition list for people that want to switch from 639-1 or RFC 3066 to ISO 639-3.
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Contents |
[edit] meta:Language codes/Conflicts
Below is a list of "conflicts" between 2 letter language codes and country codes. A conflict occurs when a country uses the same code as a language it does not actively use. Theoretically, country and language codes are orthogonal so the conflict does not exist, but practically, it could be a source of needless confusion.
| 2 letter | 3 letter | Language | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| af | afr | Afrikaans | Afghanistan |
| am | amh | Amharic | Armenia |
| ar | ara | Arabic | Argentina |
| as | asm | Assamese | American Samoa |
| ba | bak | Bashkir | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| be | bel | Byelorussian | Belgium |
| bh | bih | Bihari | Bahrain |
| bi | bis | Bislama | Burundi |
| bn | ben | Bengali | Brunei Darussalam |
| br | bre | Breton | Brazil |
| bo | bod/tib | Tibetan | Bolivia |
| ca | cat | Catalan | Canada |
| co | cos | Corsican | Colombia |
| cy | cym/wel | Welsh | Cyprus |
| dz | dzo | Dzongkha | Algeria |
| et | est | Estonian | Ethiopia |
| ga | gai/iri | Irish | Gabon |
| gl | glg | Gallegan | Greenland |
| gn | grn | Guarani | Guinea |
| gu | guj | Gujarati | Guam |
| km | khm | Khmer | Comoros |
| kn | kan | Kannada | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| ky | kir | Kirghiz | Cayman Islands |
| la | lat | Latin | Lao People's Democratic Republic |
| ml | mlt | Maltese | Mali |
| mo | mol | Moldavian | Macau |
| mr | mar | Marathi | Mauritania |
| ms | may/msa | Malay | Montserrat |
| my | bur/mya | Burmese | Malaysia |
| na | nau | Nauru | Namibia |
| ne | nep | Nepali | Niger |
| om | orm | Oromo | Oman |
| pa | pan | Panjabi | Punjab (India & Pakistan) |
| Ks | KAS | Kashmiri | Kashmir (India Kashmir) |
| ps | pus | Pushto | Palestinian Territories |
| sa | san | Sanskrit | Saudi Arabia |
| sd | snd | Sindhi | Sudan |
| sg | sag | Sango | Singapore |
| sh | scr | Serbo-Croatian | St. Helena |
| si | sin | Singhalese | Slovenia |
| sl | slv | Slovenian | Sierra Leone |
| sm | smo | Samoan | San Marino |
| sn | sna | Shona | Senegal |
| st | sot | Sotho, Southern | Sao Tome and Principe |
| sv | sve/swe | Swedish | El Salvador |
| tg | tgk | Tajik | Togo |
| tk | tuk | Turkmen | Tokelau |
| tn | tsn | Tswana | Tunisia |
| tt | tat | Tatar | Trinidad and Tobago |
| tw | twi | Twi | Taiwan |
| ug | uig | Uighur | Uganda |
| uk | ukr | Ukrainian | United Kingdom |
| vi | vie | Vietnamese | Virgin Islands (USA) |
| za | zha | Zhuang | South Africa |
It is a derived table. The 3-letter code is not necessary as I didn't think they're relevant to the "conflicts". I think we should start a new page to put this table.--Hello World! 03:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
- The country code for the UK is GB, not UK. This is probably the only situation in which "GB" is an abbreviation for "United Kingdom" (instead of "Great Britain"). (212.247.11.153 21:59, 24 June 2007 (UTC))
[edit] Dupliction of work
Why spend time recreating the whole table when there is already one in meta? AbelCheung 23:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Because we want to improve en:WP and it is not here. Furthermore the table you cite is not a table of ISO 639-1 codes. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Arabic Crossover
The end line of this page is still arabic, fixing appreciated. -Sox207 23:34, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] removed Macedonian/Slovenian POV
Someone combined mk and sl, probably political POV (the usual claim that Macedonia or Macedonian doesn't really exist). Whatever the POV, and whatever similarity there might or might not be, the fact is that ISO codes them separately; this article documents the fact(s) of the ISO coding. Fixed. Robert Ullmann (talk) 05:34, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "new" ISO 639-1 codes
For those watching this page: note that ISO is not assigning any more 2 letter codes. (To be precise, a 2 letter code will not be assigned to any language that already has a 3 letter code; since any language significant enough to have a 2 letter code is already coded in -3, it won't happen. Mind you, if ETs show up, we might need a code for Pan-Galactic or something ;-)
I've noted over the last months several separate attempts to "assign" new two letter codes by adding them here, to pages, to templates and pages in the wiktionary, etc. They are all bogus, and should be cleaned out. (Languages were Kadazandusun, Mazerandani, Gagauz, and Rusyn recently). Any additions/deletions from the list are almost certainly invalid. Robert Ullmann (talk) 12:57, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] List title
Why isn't the title of this list List of ISO 639? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson (talk) 12:54, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
