Great, Purodha, GerardM and Wikidatans,
I've gathered together some "Language Code" standardization sources, all
potentially helpful for unfolding good design, here ...
Language Code
Ethnologue
(Ethnologue now uses ISO 639 codes)
http://www.ethnologue.com/browse/codes
ISO 639
(International Organization for Standardization)
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/language_codes.htm
ISO-639-3
(International Organization for Standardization)
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
ISO-639-6 (International Organization for Standardization)
(This aims to include any and all language variants and it is not that
interested in using the political term what language has become).
http://www.geolang.com/iso639-6/
Language Subtag Lookup
(A nice tool maintained by W3C corroborator Richard Ishida to look up
current IANA defined language tags, and their constituents (subtags)).
http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/ .
I've also added these initially to some CC wiki WUaS "Language" pages (see
below), which 7,106+ MIT OCW-centric wiki-school plans will allow for many
more language additions with time.
As one Wikidata focus, probably already explored, it seems to make sense to
engage the ISO 639 codes and standards, since ISO-639-3 and ISO-639-6 seem
to address some of both of your concerns.
Does anyone know how ISO-639-6, for example, allows for, or encodes,
invented, "dead," animal/species' communication (or even computer languages
as "human languages")?
Cheers,
Scott
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:26 AM, P. Blissenbach <publi(a)web.de> wrote:
Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
writes:
Hoi,
There are standards that define British English et al.
It makes part of the ISO codes. We do not have to invent
something like "ISO 639-3eng".
Indeed.
There is a nice tool maintained by W3C corroborator Richard
Ishida to look up current IANA defined language tags, and their
constituents (subtags) at:
http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/
Greetings -- Purodha
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