Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History

iso-langs

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

parent directory

..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ISO LANG codes

There are too many languages in the world!
And that is not a bad situations to be in!
But we should identifiers that are less ambiguous
As of 2020, the standard to refer to is ISO-639-3 (part 3).
Because Wikipedia said the recent drafts are still incomplete.

ISO 639-3

Official Site: SIL International: https://iso639-3.sil.org/
Download codes from https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_tables/download_tables

curl https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab > iso-639-3.tsv 
curl https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3_Name_Index.tab  > iso-639-3-names.tsv

ISO-639-2

Official site: The Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/

curl https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt > iso-639-2.tsv