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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

• language families and languages
• list of languages
• list of official languages

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

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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

• ISO 639-2/RA Homepage (http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/)
• ISO 639-2/RA Change Notice (http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html)
• http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/normtext.html
• RFC 3066, Tags for the Identification of Languages, Best Current Practice, January 2001
• ISO 639 and the Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/iso639/)

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