Hi GerardM. I usually use a Google search such as this to find exotic language names: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ruanda%7Csotho+iso%7C639%7Cethnolog...

In fact I was looking for these very two languages just yesterday for my Wiktionary parser I've been working on. You can find the results of that effort here: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:HippieBot:all_langs_sorted

For many of the languages marked as "unknown" in that list I have made notes on the talk page where I've found:

Ruanda: iso:rw, kin; sil:RUA, en:Kinyarwanda Sotho: northern sotho: iso:nso, sil:SRT; southern sotho: iso:st, sot, sil:SSO

Which gives ISO 2- and 3-letter codes, SIL code, alternative names, plus notes that in this case, Sotho is actually considered 2 non-mutually-intelligible languages by the folks at SIL.

Hope this helps. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail).

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:32:58 +0100, Gerard Meijssen gerardm@myrealbox.com wrote:

Gerard Meijssen wrote:

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Hoi, I have problems identifying words in two languages. On the en:wiktionary these are called Ruanda and Sotho.

Ruanda is not known by a ISO 639 code but it should be known by another name. Sotho is known but with two names; Southern and Northern Sotho. So what is it ??

Saturday is the word that brought this problem again to my attention. So far I just removed these entries and that is not nice so I am asking for assistence.

Thanks, GerardM

Hoi, On IRC is was told by "dannyisme" that Ruanda is /Kinyarwanda/ The ISO 639 code is rw and kin. It is the first word in this language on the nl:wiktionary. I hope many will follow :)

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