ISO 639-3 Registration Authority

Since the introduction of ISO 639-3 in 2007, access to language information has increased tremendously. The code set initially adopted as ISO639-3:2007 was based on a harmonization of ISO 639-2 with the code set of SIL’s Ethnologue 15th edition and languages from Linguist List to form a comprehensive set of code elements for world languages. SIL Global, the Language Coding Agency for 639-3, relies on the contributions of linguists, language coding experts, and language users around the world to

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Since the introduction of ISO 639-3 in 2007, access to language information has increased tremendously. The code set initially adopted as ISO639-3:2007 was based on a harmonization of ISO 639-2 with the code set of SIL’s Ethnologue 15th edition and languages from Linguist List to form a comprehensive set of code elements for world languages. SIL Global, the Language Coding Agency for 639-3, relies on the contributions of linguists, language coding experts, and language users around the world to

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