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:
http://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:
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The list of ALL the languages being used can be found at the bottom of the home page:
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and the list of languages comes from:
http://www.dmoz.org/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
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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 webmaster