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Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural languages, largely superseding the ISO 639-2 three-letter code standard.
ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in part two ( ISO 639-2 ) of the standard, [ 1 ] including the corresponding two-letter ( ISO 639-1 ) codes where they exist.
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For example, Sindhi is commonly written in Arabic and Devanagari scripts, and a number of others have been used. Kurdish may be written in the Arabic or Latin script. Most modern scripts are LTR, but N'ko (1949), Mende Kikakui (19th century), Adlam (1980s) and Hanifi Rohingya (1980s) were created in modern times and are RTL.
This is the complete ISO code and name list as of the Jan 2019 code-table update. The bare ISO names are linked, without 'language' appended. That means that some links will lead to dab pages or even to the wrong article, some of which might not have a hatnote redirect. (For very short names (1–3 letters), this is being checked on the talk page.)
ISO 639 is a set of standards by the International Organization for Standardization that is concerned with representation of names for languages and language groups. Lists of ISO 639 codes are: List of ISO 639-1 codes, with corresponding ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 codes; List of ISO 639-2 codes, with corresponding ISO 639-1 codes
When written in the Latin alphabet Klingon has the unusual property of a distinction in case; q and Q are different letters, and other letters are either always (e.g. D, I, S) or never (e.g. ch, tlh, v) written in upper case.
This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with P. ... Abbreviations are used in the table as follows: Scope (Archived April 21, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.