This project is a collection of data files useful for working with BCP 47 language tags.
The IANA Language Subtag Registry and other data sets are mirrored here to provide stable versions for specific builds of projects and generated data sets derived from these data files.
| File | Modified | Description |
|---|---|---|
| language-subtag-registry | 2018-08-08 | The IANA Language Subtag Registry. |
| bcp47-extensions | 2018-03-24 | Private use BCP 47 extensions for describing accents, dialects, and language classifications. |
Additionally, the relationships directory contains data that
relates language codes together according to which language family they belong.
These files have line comments that start with the # character. The other
lines have the following format:
TYPE:LANGUAGE:PARENT
where TYPE can be:
TYPE |
Description |
|---|---|
a |
PARENT is the ancestor of LANGUAGE. |
d |
LANGUAGE is a dialect of PARENT. |
f |
PARENT is the language family of LANGUAGE. |
h |
Hierarchical relationships of the language families. |
i |
LANGUAGE is influenced by PARENT. |
The IANA Language Subtag Registry is part of the BCP 47/RFC 5646 standard.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
