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2-char codes for 'obscure' languages

 
 
Reply Sun 23 Nov, 2003 07:32 am
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:

Edit (Moderator): Link removed. Do not post your link.

The list of ALL the languages being used can be found at the bottom of the home page:

Edit (Moderator): Link removed. Do not post your link.

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 Edit (Moderator): Link removed. Do not post your link. 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 webmaster
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Sun 23 Nov, 2003 07:40 am
If you ever get the answers please add them to this thread 2-char language codes
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 23 Nov, 2003 09:12 am
I've listed some below.

Eesti et

Euskaraz eu [you perhaps made a typo 'Eukara'?]

Frysk fy

Lëtzebuergesch lb

Rumantsch rm

Suomeksi fi [should be your 'Suomi' = that's the country's name!]

Zhōng-wén zh [not sure, which of the two]
(Chinese)
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thegiraffe
 
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Reply Sun 23 Nov, 2003 01:35 pm
Thanks! Walter...so far so good
Thanks Walter for these.

Walter Hinteler wrote:
I've listed some below.

Eesti et

Euskaraz eu [you perhaps made a typo 'Eukara'?]

Frysk fy

Lëtzebuergesch lb

Rumantsch rm

Suomeksi fi [should be your 'Suomi' = that's the country's name!]

Zhōng-wén zh [not sure, which of the two]
(Chinese)


I have now changed the website to use these.

As I said in the original post, I would appreciate it if you could check the 2-char codes I have used and see if they are correct. It seems that even though to be able to do this, the URL would be kind of relevant. However, it seems that the extremely zealous moderation of this forum does not allow me to post the URL despite it seeming to be somewhat relevant to my posting (my view Evil or Very Mad of this extreme degree of moderating certainly would certainly contravene the moderators censorship fingers). Therefore, I would ask you to go to my profile, where you will find the site to which I refer - it looks a bit like L****P**.com :wink: ; check the bottom of the home page for a list of all the languages.

Thanks for your help.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 23 Nov, 2003 01:38 pm
I posted my reference link on the site, Craven mentioned above.
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