Iso 639-2

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Iso 639-2

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Himachali languages
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Algonquian languages
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family. The common ancestor of all the languages in this branch is Proto-Germanic (also known as Common Germanic), spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe. Proto-Germanic, along with all of its descendants, is characterized by a number of unique linguistic features, most famously the consonant change known as Grimm's law. Early varieties of Germanic enter history with the Germanic peoples moving south from northern Europe in the second century BC, to settle in northern central Europe.
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Iranian languages
The Iranian languages or Iranic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family and its subfamily, Indo-Iranian. They are spoken by the Iranian peoples. Old Persian and Avestan are the oldest recorded Iranian languages.
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Karen languages
The Karen languages are tonal languages spoken by some three million Karen people. They are of unclear affiliation within the Tibeto-Burman languages. The Karen languages are written using the Burmese script. The three main branches are Sgaw, Pwo, and Pa'o. Karenni (also known Kayah or Red Karen) and Kayan (also known as Padaung) are related to the Sgaw branch. They are almost unique among the Tibeto-Burman languages in having a Subject Verb Object word order; other than Karen and Bai, Tibeto-Burman languages feature a Subject Object Verb order . This is likely due to influence from neighboring Mon and Tai languages. The languages are also considered unusual for not having any Chinese influence.
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Sorbian languages
The Sorbian languages (, ) are classified under the Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. They are the native languages of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority in the Lusatia region of eastern Germany. Historically the language has also been known as Wendish or Lusatian. Their collective ISO 639-2 code is wen. It is closely related to Polish, Kashubian, Czech and Slovak.
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ISO 639-2:1998, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code, is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. The three-letter codes given for each language in this part of the standard are referred to as "Alpha-3" codes. There are 464 entries in the list of ISO 639-2 codes.

The US Library of Congress is the registration authority for ISO 639-2 (referred to as ISO 639-2/RA). As registration authority, the LOC receives and reviews proposed changes; they also have representation on the ISO 639-RA Joint Advisory Committee responsible for maintaining the ISO 639 code tables.

Work was begun on the ISO 639-2 standard in 1989, because the ISO 639-1 standard, which gives two-letter codes for languages, would not be able to accommodate a sufficient number of languages. The ISO 639-2 standard was first released in 1998.

1 B and T codes
2 Scopes and types
- 2.1 Special situations
- 2.2 Collective language codes
3 See also
4 External links

B and T codes [link]

While most languages are given one code by the standard, twenty of the languages described have two three-letter codes, a "bibliographic" code (ISO 639-2/B), which is derived from the English name for the language and was a necessary legacy feature, and a "terminological" code (ISO 639-2/T), which is derived from the native name for the language. Each of these twenty languages is also included in the ISO 639-1 standard. (There were 22 B codes; scc and scr are now deprecated.)

In general the T codes are favored; ISO 639-3 uses ISO 639-2/T. However, ISO 15924 derives its codes when possible from ISO 639-2/B.

Scopes and types [link]

Scopes:

Individual languages
Macrolanguages
Collections of languages
Dialects
Reserved for local use
Special situations

Types (for individual languages):

Living languages
Extinct languages
Ancient languages
Historic languages
Constructed languages

Special situations [link]

There are codes for special situations:

mis is listed as "uncoded languages"
mul (for multiple languages) is applied when several languages are used and it is not practical to specify all the appropriate language codes
The interval from qaa to qtz is reserved and is not used in the standard
und (for undetermined) is used in situations in which a language or languages must be indicated but the language cannot be identified.
zxx is listed in the code list as "no linguistic content" (added 2006-01-11)

Collective language codes [link]

Some ISO 639-2 codes that are commonly used for languages do not precisely represent a particular language or some related languages (as the above macrolanguages). They are regarded as collective language codes and are excluded from ISO 639-3. For a definition of macrolanguages and collective languages see [1].

The collective language codes in ISO 639-2 are listed below.

The following two codes are identified as collective codes in ISO 639-2 but are (at present) missing from ISO 639-5:

bih Bihari (has the ISO 639-1 code bh)
him Himachali

Codes registered for 639-2 that are listed as collective codes in ISO 639-5 (and collective codes by name in ISO 639-2):

afa Afro-Asiatic languages
alg Algonquian languages
apa Apache languages
art artificial languages
ath Athapascan languages
aus Australian languages
bad Banda languages
bai Bamileke languages
bat Baltic languages
ber Berber languages
bnt Bantu languages
btk Batak languages
cai Central American Indian languages
cau Caucasian languages
cel Celtic languages
cmc Chamic languages
col Shilluk language
cpe creoles and pidgins, English-based
cpf creoles and pidgins, French-based
cpp creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based
crp creoles and pidgins
cus Cushitic languages
day Land Dayak languages
dra Dravidian languages
fiu Finno-Ugrian languages
gem Germanic languages
ijo Ijo languages
inc Indic languages
ine Indo-European languages
ira Iranian languages
iro Iroquoian languages
kar Karen languages
khi Khoisan languages
kro Kru languages
map Austronesian languages
mkh Mon–Khmer languages
mno Manobo languages
mun Munda languages
myn Mayan languages
nah Nahuatl languages
nai North American Indian languages
nic Niger–Congo languages
nub Nubian languages
oto Otomian languages
paa Papuan languages
phi Philippine languages
pra Prakrit languages
roa Romance languages
sai South American Indian languages
sal Salishan languages
sem Semitic languages
sgn sign languages
sio Siouan languages
sit Sino-Tibetan languages
sla Slavic languages
smi Sami languages
son Songhai languages
ssa Nilo-Saharan languages
tai Tai languages
tup Tupi languages
tut Altaic languages
wak Wakashan languages
wen Sorbian languages
ypk Yupik languages
znd Zande languages

Special codes in ISO 639-2:

und undetermined (language)
mis uncoded language
mul multiple languages
zxx no linguistic content, not applicable

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Contents

B and T codes [link]

Scopes and types [link]

Special situations [link]

Collective language codes [link]

See also [link]

External links [link]

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