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Here are more consolidated responses to the on-going discussion prompted
by:

     A previous message to the INSOFT-L Internationalization of Software
     mailing list concerned the following topic:

     >
     > Here are the consolidated answers to the original question from
     > Roger Nelson (rnelson@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu)
     >
     >      Where can I obtain the list of 3 character ISO language codes?
     >

     Apparently, everyone who provided one of the consolidated answers (and
     me, too) misread the original question.  Oops.


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Sender: Render Chiu (rchiu@ccmail.com)

     > Sender: Keld J|rn Simonsen (keld@dkuug.dk)
     >
     > The iso language codes are in ISO 639, 2-letter code,
     > and there was a work going on about 3-letter codes. It seems to have
     > failed at the DIS stage. Anyway there is an extraxt of an
     > older version available in dkuug.dk:i18n/iso-cd-639-2

     Is there any way to find where ISO 639 store?  Thanks!


Sender: Rob Hegt (hegt@iaci.kun.nl)

I was pleased to find out about the ISO-3166 standard, but was wondering
what is exactly standardised by it. Is it the countries or the
languages? I suppose countries, as e.g. belgium doesn't have it's 'own'
language, and has even 2 (or 3?) official languages.

So now I would like to know which languages exist and if there exists an
international standard for these.


Sender: Joyce Pashley (joyce@x.co.uk)
        Documentation/Translation Manager
	IXI Limited
	Cambridge, England

Herewith list:
Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F)
"Code for the representation of names of languages".
Typed by Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk 1990-11-30
Two-letter lower-case symbols are used.
The Registration Authority for ISO 639 is Infoterm, Osterreiches
Normungsinstitut (ON), Postfach 130, A-1021 Vienna, Austria.

aa Afar
ab Abkhazian
af Afrikaans
am Amharic
ar Arabic
as Assamese
ay Aymara
az Azerbaijani

ba Bashkir
be Byelorussian
bg Bulgarian
bh Bihari
bi Bislama
bn Bengali; Bangla
bo Tibetan
br Breton

ca Catalan
co Corsican
cs Czech
cy Welsh

da Danish
de German
dz Bhutani

el Greek
en English
eo Esperanto
es Spanish
et Estonian
eu Basque

fa Persian
fi Finnish
fj Fiji
fo Faeroese
fr French
fy Frisian

ga Irish
gd Scots Gaelic
gl Galician
gn Guarani
gu Gujarati

ha Hausa
hi Hindi
hr Croatian
hu Hungarian
hy Armenian

ia Interlingua
ie Interlingue
ik Inupiak
in Indonesian
is Icelandic
it Italian
iw Hebrew

ja Japanese
ji Yiddish
jw Javanese

ka Georgian
kk Kazakh
kl Greenlandic
km Cambodian
kn Kannada
ko Korean
ks Kashmiri
ku Kurdish
ky Kirghiz

la Latin
ln Lingala
lo Laothian
lt Lithuanian
lv Latvian, Lettish

mg Malagasy
mi Maori
mk Macedonian
ml Malayalam
mn Mongolian
mo Moldavian
mr Marathi
ms Malay
mt Maltese
my Burmese

na Nauru
ne Nepali
nl Dutch
no Norwegian

oc Occitan
om (Afan) Oromo
or Oriya

pa Punjabi
pl Polish
ps Pashto, Pushto
pt Portuguese

qu Quechua

rm Rhaeto-Romance
rn Kirundi
ro Romanian
ru Russian
rw Kinyarwanda

sa Sanskrit
sd Sindhi
sg Sangro
sh Serbo-Croatian
si Singhalese
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
sm Samoan
sn Shona
so Somali
sq Albanian
sr Serbian
ss Siswati
st Sesotho
su Sundanese
sv Swedish
sw Swahili

ta Tamil
te Tegulu
tg Tajik
th Thai
ti Tigrinya
tk Turkmen
tl Tagalog
tn Setswana
to Tonga
tr Turkish
ts Tsonga
tt Tatar
tw Twi

uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek

vi Vietnamese
vo Volapuk

wo Wolof

xh Xhosa

yo Yoruba

zh Chinese
zu Zulu


Sender: Roy Badami <roy@harlequin.co.uk>

barness@ct.picker.com writes:

> For the United Kingdom, I usually see (and use) "uk", not "gb".

In what context?  I assure you that the ISO 3166 2-letter code for the
United Kingdom is GB, not UK (unless it's changed very recently
without my noticing... :-)

Silly, isn't it.  We're the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland.  In other words, Greate Britain is only part of our
country.

So how the hell can GB stand for United Kingdom....?

If you're thinking of e-mail top level domains, then the internet
standards require the use of ISO codes.  But currently, for historical
reasons, the UK still uses UK as its top-level domain.  (This is
because, in our pre-internet days, we had our own namespace, called
the NRS, which used UK as a top-level domain.)

But, the intention is that we must ultimately conform to the internet
rules.  Which means that *either* we start using GB as our e-mail
domain, *or* we lobby the DTI to consider requesting a change in our
ISO country code to UK.

Actually, within the UK e-mail community, I gather there's quite a lot
of support for the second option....