ISO 639-3

ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages. It extends the ISO 639-2 alpha-3 codes with an aim to cover all known natural languages. The standard was published by ISO on 2007-02-05.1

It is intended for use in a wide range of applications, in particular computer systems where many languages need to be supported. It provides an enumeration of languages as complete as possible, including living and extinct, ancient and constructed, major and minor, written and unwritten.1 However, it does not include reconstructed languages such as Proto-Indo-European.2

It is a superset of ISO 639-1 and of the individual languages in ISO 639-2. ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 focused on major languages, most frequently represented in the total body of the world's literature. Since ISO 639-2 also includes language collections and Part 3 does not, ISO 639-3 is not a superset of ISO 639-2. Where B and T codes exist in ISO 639-2, ISO 639-3 uses the T-codes.

Examples:

language 639-1 639-2 (B/T) type 639-3 English en eng individual eng German de ger/deu individual deu Arabic ar ara macro ara: arb + several others Minnan individual nan

The final standard contains 7589 entries3. The inventory of languages is based on a number of sources including: the individual languages contained in 639-2, modern languages from the Ethnologue 15th edition, historic varieties, ancient languages and artificial languages from Anthony Aristar at the Linguist List as well as languages recommended within a public commenting period.

A transition from ISO 639-1 could be done with List of ISO 639-1 codes.

Contents 1 Code space 2 Macrolanguages 3 Collective languages 4 Usage of ISO 639-3 5 See also 6 References 7 External links // Code space

Since the code is three-letter alphabetic, one upper bound for the number of languages that can be represented is 26 × 26 × 26 = 17576. Since ISO 639-2 defines special codes (4), a reserved range (520) and B-only codes (23), 547 codes cannot be used in part 3. Therefore a lower upper bound is 17576 − 547 = 17030.

The upper bound gets even lower if one subtracts the language collections defined in 639-2 and the ones yet to be defined in ISO 639-5.

Macrolanguages Main article: ISO 639 macrolanguage

There are 56 languages in ISO 639-2 which are considered, for the purposes of the standard, to be "macrolanguages" in ISO 639-3 4.

Some of these macrolanguages had no individual language as defined by ISO 639-3 in the code set of ISO 639-2, e.g. 'ara' (Generic Arabic). Others like 'nor' (Norwegian) had their two individual parts ('nno' (Nynorsk), 'nob' (Bokmål)) already in ISO 639-2.

That means some languages (e.g. 'arb', Standard Arabic) that were considered by ISO 639-2 to be dialects of one language ('ara') are now in ISO 639-3 in certain contexts considered to be individual languages themselves.

This is an attempt to deal with varieties that may be linguistically distinct from each other, but are treated by their speakers as two forms of the same language, e.g. in cases of diglossia.

For example:

http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=ara (Generic Arabic, 639-2) http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=arb (Standard Arabic, 639-3)

See 5 for the complete list.

Collective languages

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 languages (or collectives)6 and are excluded from ISO 639-3.

See also: ISO 639-2#Collective languages and ISO 639-5 Usage of ISO 639-3 Lexical Markup Framework, ISO specification for representation of machine-readable dictionaries Ethnologue, LinguistList, IETF language tag proposed as language TLD (lcTLD) [1] [2] See also v • d • e ISO 639 and ISO 639 macrolanguage

ISO 639-3 Registration Authority - SIL International
This is the official site of the Registration Authority for ISO 639-3: Codes for the representation of names of languages - Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive ...
www.sil.org/iso639-3

ISO 639-1 list of codes

ISO 639-2 list of codes

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ISO 639-3 list of codes

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ISO 639-4 -

ISO 639-5 list of codes

ISO 639-6 -

References ^ a b ISO 639-3 status and abstract (iso.org) ^ Types of individual languages - Ancient languages (sil.org) ^ ISO 639-3 Code Set ^ Scope of denotation: Macrolanguages (sil.org) ^ Macrolanguage Mappings (sil.org) ^ Scope of denotation: Collective languages (sil.org) External links ISO 639-3 Registration Authority Linguist List - List of Ancient and Extinct Languages explanation by Håvard Hjulstad

ISO 639-2:1998, Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 2: Alpha-3 code Multiple. Distributed through American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

ISO 639 code tables
A complete listing of ISO 639 (parts 1, 2, and 3) language codes that can be interactively manipulated.
www.sil.org/ISO639-3/codes.asp

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