Published subjects for languages in ISO 639

This is a set of published subjects intended to be used for identifying languages by URI. The identifiers are URIs based on the bibliographic three-letter codes in ISO 639 ("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. (The PSI for this PSI set is: http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/639/.)

This published subject set was published by the OASIS PubSubj TC, which is also responsible for its maintenance.

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 editor 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

The concept of 'language'

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

The concept of 'language group'

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

The concept of 'alpha-2 code'

An alpha-2 code is a two-letter code used to identify a language in ISO 639. (PSI: http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/639/#code-a2.)

The concept of 'alpha-3 bibliographic code'

An alpha-3 bibliographic code is a three-letter bibliographic code used to identify a language in ISO 639-2/B. (PSI: http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/639/#code-a3b.)

The concept of 'alpha-3 terminological code'

An alpha-3 terminological code is a three-letter terminological code used to identify a language in ISO 639-2/T. (PSI: http://psi.oasis-open.org/iso/639/#code-a3t.)

Individual languages

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

The published subject set ends here.