You might register a subtag for it. It’s not a different language from English 
so you’d never get a 639=code for it. 

> On 25 Aug 2015, at 17:35, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Apparently, the Simple English Wikipedia uses "en" as its language code in 
> the HTML lang attribute, etc.
> 
> I never noticed it until recently, when it started causing various bugs with 
> the ContentTranslation extension of which I am a developer. I somehow assumed 
> that it uses something like "en-simple" without ever checking it, and that 
> assumption was wrong - it's just "en".
> 
> I believe that the code should be different from what is used by the English 
> Wikipedia, like it is with other wikis in language variants, such as 
> be-tarask.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions about what code should it be?
> en-simple?
> en-x-simple?
> Something else?
> Should I register anything new with any standards organization? (If I recall 
> correctly, this was done for be-tarask?)
> Can I reuse any existing code that would be appropriate?
> Is it a bad idea in general and it should be just "en"?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> (PS: If you're curious what are the issues, see 
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110190 )
> 
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