Risultati di ricerca
Whereas ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 are intended to focus on the major languages of the world that are most frequently represented in the total body of the world's literature, ISO 639-3:2007 attempts to provide as complete an enumeration of languages as possible, including living, extinct, ancient and constructed languages, whether major or minor, written or unwritten.
ISO 639-3 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 37, Terminology and other language and content resources, Subcommittee SC 2, Terminographical and lexicographical working methods. ISO 639 consists of the following parts, under the general title Codes for the representation of names of languages: — Part 1: Alpha-2 code
21 dic 2017 · Codes arranged alphabetically by alpha-3/ISO 639-2 Code. Note: ISO 639-2 is the alpha-3 code in Codes for the representation of names of languages-- Part 2. There are 21 languages that have alternative codes for bibliographic or terminology purposes.
NOTE In this part of ISO 639, each language identifier represents one or more language names that designate a particular language. 3.4 name reference name linguistic expression used to designate an individual concept NOTE In this part of ISO 639, a language name is used to designate the concept of a particular language.
ISO 3166 has three parts: codes for countries, codes for subdivisions and formerly used codes (codes that were once used to describe countries but are no longer in use). The country codes can be represented either as a two-letter code (alpha-2) which is recommended as the general-purpose code, a three-letter code (alpha-3) which is more closely ...
It contains all languages with ISO 639-2 (alpha 3 / three letter) codes, the respective ISO 639-1 codes (if present), as well as the English and French name of each language. There are two versions of the three letter codes: bibliographic and terminologic. Each language has a bibliographic code but only a few languages have terminologic codes.
ISO 639-1 provides two-character lowercase alphabetic strings that serve as identifiers of languages. The list contains approximately 180 discrete codes. All ISO 639-1 languages also have ISO 639-2 three-character code representations. These codes are linked to codes for the same languages in ISO 639-2 and the MARC Language Codes.
