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Revision as of 23:02, 6 August 2012 by Triomio (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)ISO 639-6, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 6: Alpha-4 code for comprehensive coverage of language variants, is an international standard in the ISO 639 series, developed by ISO/TC 37/SC 2 (International Organization for Standardization, Technical Committee 37, Subcommittee 2: Terminographical and lexicographical working methods). It contains four-letter codes that denote variants of languages. This allows to differentiate between, for example, historical (glvx) versus revived (rvmx) Manx, while ISO 639-3 only includes glv for Manx.
The data supporting ISO 639-6 is being researched and compiled by GeoLang on behalf of the British Standards Institution (BSI). ISO 693-6 was published in 2009.
Language search
The page http://www.geolang.com/iso639-6/ has a field "Language Reference Name (part or whole)", but it does not bring results for "Ottoman" despite that when searching for "Turkish" in the same field one gets results that contain the string "Ottoman" in the field "Language Reference Name".
Alpha-4 IDs
The "Alpha-4 ID" and "Alpha-4 Parent ID" fields on the website contain also alpha-3 codes (three digit alpha codes).
More details
As of 2012-08-06 the links in the result lists labeled "more details" return a page
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One URI that yields this output is http://www.geolang.com/iso639-6/moreDetails.asp?alpha4ID=tur
Scripts identified by language codes
http://www.geolang.com/iso639-6/ searching "Language Reference Name (part or whole)" for Turkish, gives six results:
- Turkish
- Turkish Spoken
- Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
- Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Armenian Script
- Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Hellenic Script
- Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Perso-Arabic Script
If scripts are identified as by the language codes, then the codes of ISO 15924 are superfluous for the last three.
See also
- ISO 15924 Codes for the representation of names of scripts
References
External links
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