- From: Tex Texin <tex@xencraft.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 02:32:06 -0800
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>, IETF Languages <ietf-languages@iana.org>
I have updated the page with a new format for the tables. There is now just one table which lists all of the 3166 region codes, and for each code (some of) the languages that are spoken in the region. As you know John Cowan provided the original data which was based on official languages. I have found a number of additions of official languages, and in some cases added languages that are not official but used in the region. Unfortunately, I have had to rely on a few different sources and there isn't a consistent rule as to percentage of people speaking the language in a region to qualify it for listing. In some cases, the choices were based on the time I had available to invest in this effort. The goal of the list is still to identify language codes that should be language tag alone, vs. language-region tag and/or a meaningful criteria for making the distinction. Informed and constructive comments are welcomed. The first row of the table represents languages that I have not yet identified as belonging to a region. Some of the languages are "constructed" (interlingua, esperanto, ido) and do not belong to any region. I might move them to a separate row for "constructed" languages. The 3166 codes may not be fully up to date. I noted the YU entry, which should be deprecated. The list needs checking for other errors or problems. The page is: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html tex
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