ISO 639-2
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set of ISO 639 standard
ISO 639-2 is a standardized list of three-letter codes used to represent different languages around the world. It matters because it provides a consistent way for libraries, archives, and other organizations to identify and organize materials in different languages without confusion.
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- ISO 639
- Official website
- www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2
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- standards body
- International Organization for Standardization
- maintained by
- Library of Congress
- topic has template
- Template:ISO 639 code-2
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Encyclopedic overview
ISO 639-2:1998, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code, is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. The three-letter codes given for each language in this part of the standard are referred to as "Alpha-3" codes. There are 487 entries in the list of ISO 639-2 codes.
The US Library of Congress is the registration authority for ISO 639-2 (referred to as ISO 639-2/RA). As registration authority, the LOC receives and reviews proposed changes; they also have representation on the ISO 639-RA Joint Advisory Committee responsible for maintaining the ISO 639 code tables.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ISO 639-2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.