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ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a two-letter (639-1) and three-letter ( and ) lowercase abbreviation, amended in later versions of the nomenclature. This table lists all of: *
ISO 639-1 ISO 639-1:2002, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages—Part 1: Alpha-2 code'', is the first part of the ISO 639 series of international standards for language codes. Part 1 covers the registration of two-letter codes. There are 1 ...
: two-letter codes, one per language for
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And some of: * ISO 639-2/T: three-letter codes, for the same languages as 639-1 * ISO 639-2/B: three-letter codes, mostly the same as , but with some codes derived from English names rather than native names of languages (in the following table, these differing codes are highlighted in
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ISO 639-3 ISO 639-3:2007, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages â€“ Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages'', is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for ...
: three-letter codes, the same as for languages, but with distinct codes for each variety of an ISO 639 macrolanguage


Table of all possible two letter codes


References


External links


Official ISO 639 list
at the Library of Congress * meta:Template:List of language names ordered by code on Wikimedia {{Footer ISO 639 ISO 639 Unique identifiers