Published subjects for languages

This is a set of published subject indicators useful for identifying languages by URI. The The identifiers are URIs based on the bibliographic three-letter codes in the ISO 639 standard ("Codes for the representation of names of languages"). The published subject set includes all the languages in ISO 639-2, including those which do not have two-letter codes.

WARNING! This is just a proposal. Please note that this page is not published in its correct location, nor are the identifier URIs finalized yet. Feedback is very much desired, either to the chair or to the TC mailing list.

Metadata

Machine-oriented metadata about this published subject set can be found in separate resources referenced below.

Published subject indicators

This PSI set

This is a set of published subjects for languages based on the ISO 639 codes for languages, published and maintained by the OASIS GeoLang TC. (Subject identifier: http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso639/#psiset.)

The concept of 'language'

The concept of 'language' included in this published subject set is that of the class implicitly defined by ISO 639-2 as the set of entities to which the ISO 639 Maintenance Agency might assign a language code. (Subject identifier: http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso639/#language.)

The concept of 'language group'

The concept of 'language group' included in this published subject set is that of the class implicitly defined by ISO 639-2 as the set of entities to which the ISO 639 Maintenance Agency might assign a collective language code. (Subject identifier: http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso639/#language-group.)

Individual languages

Each of the rows in the table below indicate a different subject. For each row, the subject indicated is the subject identified by the three given ISO 639 codes and the French and English names for that subject as given in ISO 639-2. The last column gives the subject identifier for each language or language group, based on the terminological code.