Guest hughprior Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 (edited) I am webmaster for on of the sites which uses the wonderful DMOZ data, and if you speak anything other than English, I need your help!! Standard 2-char codes for languages are USUALLY well defined, e.g. the following list gives a supposedly definitive list: https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html Supposedly. I have a particular need to find out the best 2-char codes for many languages which it seems are NOT listed there! The codes are to be used in the following site URLs, e.g. for French language, the 2-char code 'fr' is shown below: http://www.localpin.com/static/lang/fr/loc/world.htm The list of ALL the languages being used can be found at the bottom of the home page: http://www.localpin.com and the list of languages comes from: /World/ There are a few problems: a) The DMOZ site list defines the language in the language (e.g. Spanish is listed as Espanol), whereas the ISO-639 list has the language listed under its English name. Sometimes I just don't know what goes with what! b) Sometimes DMOZ lists a language that just doesn't seem to appear at all in the ISO-639 list So, PLEASE, if you speak a particular language listed there, check what the 2-char code used on http://www.localpin.com and see if it is correct! In particular, I have no clue and have had to guess what 2-char code to use for: Bable Bahasa Melayu Bangla Bosanski Chinese (DMOZ lists 2 versions - simplified and traditional - which should use the ISO code of zh? and what should the other use?) Eesti Euskara Frysk Letzebuergesch Lietuviu Magyar Punjabi Rumantsch Shqip Srpski Suomi Taiwanese Thanks for any help/suggestions/corrections! regards, The linguistically-challenged LocalPin webmaster Edited October 21, 2017 by Elper
Meta tuisp Posted November 23, 2003 Meta Posted November 23, 2003 (edited) Hello Hugh, I'll try to give you a hand here. Codes are taken from https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html: Bable :arrow_right: Asturian; Bable :arrow_right: ast (639-2; no 639-1 code exists) Bahasa Melayu :arrow_right: Malay :arrow_right: may (639-2, bibliographic) / msa (639-2, terminology code) ms (639-1) Bangla :arrow_right: Bengali :arrow_right: ben (639-2) bn (639-1) Bosanski :arrow_right: Bosnian :arrow_right: bos (639-2) bs (639-1) Chinese (DMOZ lists 2 versions - simplified and traditional - which should use the ISO code of zh? and what should the other use?) :arrow_right: Sorry, can't help you there -- https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html#cd knows only one form of Chinese Eesti :arrow_right: Estonian :arrow_right: est (639-2) et (639-1) Euskara :arrow_right: Basque :arrow_right: baq (639-2, bibliographic) / eus (639-2, terminology code) eu (639-1) Frysk :arrow_right: Frisian :arrow_right: fry (639-2) fy (639-1) Letzebuergesch :arrow_right: Luxembourgish :arrow_right: ltz (639-2) lb (639-1) Lietuviu :arrow_right: Lithuanian :arrow_right: lit (639-2) lt (639-1) Magyar :arrow_right: Hungarian :arrow_right: hun (639-2) hu (639-1) Punjabi :arrow_right: Punjabi; Panjabi :arrow_right: pan (639-2) pa (639-1) Rumantsch :arrow_right: Romansh :arrow_right: roh (639-2) rm (639-1) Shqip :arrow_right: Albanian :arrow_right: alb (639-2, bibliographic) / sqi (639-2, terminology code) sq (639-1) Srpski :arrow_right: Serbian :arrow_right: scc (639-2, bibliographic) / srp (639-2, terminology code) sr (639-1) Suomi :arrow_right: Finnish :arrow_right: fin (639-2) fi (639-1) Taiwanese [is a third variant for Chinese] http://mozzie.org/ might help you further... Edited October 21, 2017 by Elper
Guest hughprior Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 (edited) Thanks a million Tuisp! That's exactly what I was looking for. I've already made changes to all the ones you listed (the current list can be seen on the bottom of the home page http://www.localpin.com ). I should say as well, I guessed (maybe wrongly?!), Slovensko and Slovensky. Which is Slovak (sk) and which is Slovanian (sl)? Thanks again. Edited October 21, 2017 by Elper
Meta tuisp Posted November 23, 2003 Meta Posted November 23, 2003 Glad it helped. Slovensko is Slovenian and Slovensky is Slovak
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