> From: Nicholas Bodley [mailto:nbodley@...]

> Try Googling on [language codes]. ISO 639 is one standard.

The multiplicity of sites documenting ISO 639 is, IMO, a disservice -- people are not served by sources of out-of-date copies into which errors may have been inadvertently inserted. This one place to go for ISO 639 is http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/.

> Internet IP addresses use two-letter codes for nations...

And have nothing to do with language identifiers, which is what Suzanne was asking about.

> Related, probably: The distinction between locale, such as Paraguay, and
> language, such as Spanish and Guaraní

Paraguay is not a locale; it is a country. A locale, roughly, corresponds to a set of cultural conventions relevant for software implementations. But that's also not the same as language. And it's well off-topic.


Peter Constable