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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)
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
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)
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)
The end line of this page is still arabic, fixing appreciated. - Sox 207 23:34, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
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)
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)
Why isn't the title of this list List of ISO 639? -- Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson ( talk) 12:54, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm confused about the prices and copyright claim on the ISO website. For example: ISO 639-1:2002 lists the paper and PDF version of ISO 639-1:2002 for CHF 136, which is currently about US$ 120. ISO also has a copyright policy:
All rights reserved. The material on ISO Online is subject to the same conditions of copyright as ISO publications, and its use is subject to the user's acceptance of ISO's conditions of copyright for ISO publications, as set out below. Any use of the material, including reproduction in whole or in part to another Internet site, requires permission in writing from ISO. All ISO publications are protected by copyright. Therefore and unless otherwise specified, no part of an ISO publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilm, scanning, without permission in writing from the publisher.
— ISO, ISO Copyright
At the bottom of the page there is a link to a PDF document that explains some more stuff. Also International_Organization_for_Standardization#ISO_document_copyright states the copyright of ISO standards and also gives a list of free standards at Freely Available ISO Standards. ISO 639-1 is not one of them. Does Wikipedia own a general right or permission to reproduce the code lists?
Thinkstorm ( talk) 13:23, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I had the problem to interpret the ISO 639-1 Codes to the language and to compare from different sources wether I found all codes. That others can save time and work I created an Excel-list of the codes in the first row and in the other rows I put the German, English and the translation of the actual language. You can get the list from my skydrive: cid-255ecac081b4c5f1.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/ISO|_639-1|_Codes.xls —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.42.126.240 ( talk) 11:00, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Placing the various ISO 639 codes within the middle of the table rather than at the extreme left-hand side is a visual improvement, but why is the table no longer sorted alphabetically on the ISO 639-1 key? Whoever has meddled with the ordering of the table has also overlooked the comment right at the head of the page, that the table data is sorted according to the ISO 639-1 code. Philip Legge User Email Talk 09:43, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Was there some discussion about redirecting this page to a template? I don't understand what sense it makes to do that, and I have reverted that change. -- Auntof6 ( talk) 20:01, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
No consensus to move. I'll add that this can not be moved since the article is not a template. Vegaswikian ( talk) 22:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
List of ISO 639-1 codes → Template:ISO 639-1 language codes — This page is redundant. See ISO 15924. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tr33 swalow ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
I suppose that it could be better if we merge the pages. For example,
ISO 639-1 language matrix could be added as a second paragraph to the
List of ISO 639-1 codes (along with its reference), since the former isn't too much of an article, but more of a simple linear table/list. Also, instead of starting a wikiwar about it, why don't we also link to
[1] and [Template:ISO 639-1 language codes] in the same (merged) article. I believe that this is the optimal solution here. If you agree, I can merge the two articles in seconds. After the merging it's up to adminstrators to delete the matrix article... What do you think? --
Ve4ernik (
talk)
09:50, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
EDIT: Merging complete. Discuss.
--
Ve4ernik (
talk)
06:30, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
The left side of this table has all kinds of colors - green, red, yellow, black. What are they for? Can someone please add a legend or something or remove the colors? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.3.210 ( talk) 14:41, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to include Ancient Greek, which has 639-2 and 639-3 codes (both "grc"), but no 639-a code that I can find. -- Auntof6 ( talk) 17:12, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
The word "language / tongue" is integral to the names of Slavic languages, e.g. język polski, Russian, Slovak, etc., just as it is for Austronesian languages, like Malay?
I can say the "English language" or el "idioma español", but that does not make the word itself part of the name in ordinary usage.
Varlaam (
talk)
17:04, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
The various spoken Han Chinese languages do not appear in the list?
I see Zhuang, but Zhuang is an ethnic minority language from Guangxi.
Varlaam (
talk)
17:07, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Chinese (Han yu) has the ISO 639-1 code zh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.180.169.99 ( talk • contribs) 09:28, 2 July 2013
In the native language heading, some items are not capitalized. Is this the preferred presentation in each native language? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fulldecent ( talk • contribs) 18:11, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
I was looking for the code for the Lango language of Uganda and it's not listed, yet the first line of the article reads, "ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify all known languages". If it's for all known languages, why are all languages listed? Is it because there are too many, or because the codes have been established only for major languages, or something else? DBlomgren ( talk) 11:03, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
The Pontic Greek is missing in this table. The 3 letter code is PNT, but no clue the 2-letter code. 85.58.233.13 ( talk) 13:52, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Both Slovak and Saraiki list sk as their 2-letter code. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.210.68.138 ( talk) 16:08, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this should go here, but there seems to be a bug in the wiki which renders "cu" as Chamorro instea of Old Church Slavonic: e.g. lang-cu ( Church Slavonic: Чрьнори́зьць Хра́бръ) vs lang-chu ( Church Slavonic: Чрьнори́зьць Хра́бръ) vs lang-ch ( Chamorro: Чрьнори́зьць Хра́бръ)
-- BerislavLopac ( talk) 15:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
I am unable to find confirmation that there is an ISO 639-1 code "fl" for Filipino. No such code is mentioned by the Library of Congress, nor by SIL, and a Wikipedia search for ISO 639:fl yields no positive result either. (To be sure, our article Filipino language can be retrieved via ISO 639:fil.)
If no one else can confirm its existence "fl" must be removed from this list, otherwise it must be added to the {{
Infobox language}}
template of the language article.
Love —
LiliCharlie (
talk)
01:07, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
The table of language codes features two columns for the language family. Is this really necessary? I see it as mostly chartjunk that distracts from the purpose of the table, which is to list languages with their codes. If this really must be kept, then it ought not to be the first column of the table. Also, the column with the color codes is garish and makes no sense to anyone who's not a language wikipediaholic. – Uanfala (talk) 11:34, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
There are color-definition inconsistencies with the page /info/en/?search=Language_family . Should colors on this page (if kept) be adjusted to match? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.90.160.93 ( talk) 00:28, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
Just notifying the editors of a discrepancy with the source.
The source is linked as: https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
Comparing this page with that, at the time of writing there are 184 codes there, and 183 here. The one present there which seems to be missing here is bh, "Bihari". 88.97.99.237 ( talk) 16:54, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Since the latest edition, published in November 2023, there are no different parts, but the whole series has been merged into a single document, which contains different sets. -- Gunnar ( talk) 11:48, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Unknown language name. Try to send me its two-letter or three-letter ISO code instead of the ISO language name. 2409:40F2:104B:D5BD:8000:0:0:0 ( talk) 19:14, 4 June 2024 (UTC)