For questions about standards (like ISO 693 for language codes) that are relevant to linguists.
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Is there a standard ISO language code for ”other”?
I’m making a website, and using ISO standard two letter language codes for tagging user-submitted content. I’m not intending on adding every single language, but would like an other category. It’s not a huge problem, but it got me wondering, is…
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Where can I lookup what language corresponds to a IANA language tag?
As far as I understand language tags get validated by IANA registration of being proper standard compliant tags.
If I have a given tag like "mn-mong" how do I go about looking up the meaning of the tag in the registry?
Christian
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Does the ISO 639 standard define mappings between ISO 639-5 language families and ISO 639-3 language?
Does the ISO 639 standard define mappings between ISO 639-5 language families and ISO 639-3 language?
I’d like to know which ISO 639-5 language family an ISO 639-3 language belongs to. I don’t find any mappings between the two. Does the ISO standard…
forgodsakehold
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Is there a widely accepted ISO 639-1 code for multilingual documents?
I know that MUL is the suggested ISO 639-2 code for multilingual documents, but what about the 2-letter equivalent in ISO 639-1? I see in the related Wikipedia article that MU is unassigned (and thus it could be used), but I cannot find any article…
AsGoodAsItGets
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ze_zh / ze_en - What language is associated with these codes?
This table lists many language codes for data sets, but I can't seem to find where the pair ze_zh or ze_en is defined:
None of the ISO code standards seem to list these pairs either.
Brendan Martin
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