Great, Purodha, GerardM and Wikidatans, I've gathered together some "Language Code" standardization sources, all potentially helpful for unfolding good design, here ...
Language Code Ethnologue (Ethnologue now uses ISO 639 codes) http://www.ethnologue.com/browse/codes ISO 639 (International Organization for Standardization) http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/language_codes.htm ISO-639-3 (International Organization for Standardization) http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp ISO-639-6 (International Organization for Standardization) (This aims to include any and all language variants and it is not that interested in using the political term what language has become). http://www.geolang.com/iso639-6/ Language Subtag Lookup (A nice tool maintained by W3C corroborator Richard Ishida to look up current IANA defined language tags, and their constituents (subtags)). http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/ . I've also added these initially to some CC wiki WUaS "Language" pages (see below), which 7,106+ MIT OCW-centric wiki-school plans will allow for many more language additions with time. As one Wikidata focus, probably already explored, it seems to make sense to engage the ISO 639 codes and standards, since ISO-639-3 and ISO-639-6 seem to address some of both of your concerns. Does anyone know how ISO-639-6, for example, allows for, or encodes, invented, "dead," animal/species' communication (or even computer languages as "human languages")? Cheers, Scott On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:26 AM, P. Blissenbach <[email protected]> wrote: > Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hoi, > > There are standards that define British English et al. > > It makes part of the ISO codes. We do not have to invent > > something like "ISO 639-3eng". > > Indeed. > > There is a nice tool maintained by W3C corroborator Richard > Ishida to look up current IANA defined language tags, and their > constituents (subtags) at: > > http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/ > > Greetings -- Purodha > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE - http://scottmacleod.com/interlingual/worlduniversityandschool.html - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010.
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