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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.
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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.
ISO 639 codes Scope/Type Family Language names 639-3 639-1 639-2B Native eng fra spa zho rus deu; aaa: I/L: Atlantic–Congo: Ghotuo: Гхотуо: aab: I/L: Atlantic–Congo
List of ISO 639-5 codes – three-letter codes for language families and groups; IETF language tag – depends on ISO 639, but provides various expansion mechanisms; Glottolog; Linguasphere Observatory (LS-2010, totaling over 32,800 coded entries and over 70,900 linguistic names)
ISO 639 is a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) concerned with representation of languages and language groups.It currently consists of four sets (1-3, 5) of code, named after each part which formerly described respective set (part 4 was guidelines without its own coding system); a part 6 was published but withdrawn.
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[23] [24] It also serves as the liturgical language of more than 2 billion Muslims. [17] In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Arabic the fourth most useful language for business, after English, Mandarin Chinese, and French. [25] Arabic is written with the Arabic alphabet, an abjad script that is written from right to left.