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Bangladesh – BSTI – Bangladesh Standards and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution; Barbados – BNSI – Barbados National Standards Institution; Belarus – BELST – Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Belarus; Belgium – NBN – Bureau voor Normalisatie / Bureau de Normalisation (formerly: IBN/BIN)
This is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies.Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism and prestige, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, [1] which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations.
Involvement in standards development is open to all stakeholders and requests can be made to the TC through any liaison or member organization (see the list of current members and liaisons of ISO/TC 37: [1]) ISO/TC 37 standards are therefore fundamental and should form the basis for many localization, translation, and other industry applications.
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] 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 ...
The following partial list contains marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but which have subsequently lost legal protection as trademarks by becoming the common name of the relevant product or service, as used both by the consuming public and commercial competitors. These marks were determined in court to have become generic.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of standardized tests that assess a person's language proficiency of a foreign/secondary language. Various types of such exams exist per many languages—some are organized at an international level even through national authoritative organizations, while others simply for specific limited business or study orientation.
This is a list of published [note 1] standards and other deliverables of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [note 2] For a complete and up-to-date list of all the ISO standards, see the ISO catalogue. [1] The standards are protected by copyright and most of them must be purchased.
An IETF BCP 47 language tag is a standardized code that is used to identify human languages on the Internet. [1] The tag structure has been standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [ 1 ] in Best Current Practice (BCP) 47 ; [ 1 ] the subtags are maintained by the IANA Language Subtag Registry .