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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.
Where two ISO 639-2 codes are given in the table, the one with the asterisk is the bibliographic code (B code) and the other is the terminological code (T code). Entries in the Scope column distinguish: individual language; collections of languages connected, for example genetically or by region; macrolanguages. The Type column distinguishes:
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The German language uses the long scale. German Billion means "trillion" (10 12). L, T Msp. Messerspitze: pinch (lit. ' knife tip ') quantity in recipes T mtl. monatlich: monthly date/time L, T mdl. mündlich: verbal L m.ü.M. Meter über dem Meerespiegel meters above sea level L m.W. meines Wissens: to my knowledge, as far as I know L, T, F ...
German articles are used similarly to the English articles, a and the. However, they are declined differently according to the number , gender and case of their nouns. Declension
A language code is a code that assigns letters or numbers as identifiers or classifiers for languages. These codes may be used to organize library collections or presentations of data , to choose the correct localizations and translations in computing , and as a shorthand designation for longer forms of language names.
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 "set 1" two-letter codes. There are 183 two-letter codes registered as of June 2021. The registered codes cover the world's major ...
where the language code is the two-letter code as per ISO 639-1. (see complete list of language Wikipedias available. English is "en", German is "de", etc.) So for example in the English language article on plankton, which is available on many other wikis, the "local" interlanguage links (if you were to want to generate them) might look like this: