Talk:List of ISO 639-1 codes
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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)
- it's a list by code (by 639-1) which List of ISO 639-2 codes is not.
- calling it List of ISO 639 codes is not correct once the 639-3 codes are official.
- 639-1 is only a small subset. makes the list more handy then 639-2 list
- list could be an easy transition list for people that want to switch from 639-1 or RFC 3066 to ISO 639-3.
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] meta:Language codes/Conflicts
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)
[edit] Dupliction of work
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)
