The meaning and scope of tags for linguistic varieties in information technology

Authors

  • Han Steenwijk Università di Padova Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Germaniche e Slave Sezione di Slavistica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/jz.v16i1.2396

Keywords:

information technology, international standards, language variety codes, Slovenian dialects, Resian dialect of Slovenian

Abstract

This article first discusses the various criteria for and scopes of the language codes registered as ISO 639-1, 639-2, 639-3, and 639-6. It then introduces RFC 5646 and RFC 4647 in order to explain how well-formed language tags can be created. Finally, the case of applying for a language code for Resian is summarized.

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References

DCMI: http://dublincore.org/

ES = Enciklopedija Slovenije 1–15, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1987–2001.

IANA Language Subtag Registry = http://www.iana.org/assignments/languagesubtag-

registry

IETF Language tag discussions = http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietflanguages

ISO 639-1 = http://www.infoterm.info/standardization/iso_639_1_2002.php

ISO 639-2 = http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/

ISO 639-3 = http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/

ISO 639-3 slv = http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=slv

ISO 639-6 = http://www.geolang.com/aspbite/categories/index.asp?intCatID=19

ISO 3166-1 = http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm

ISO 3166-2 = http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/

iso_3166-2.htm

ISO 15924 = http://unicode.org/iso15924/index.html

ISO FDIS 639-6 en-GB = http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg13138.html

MS 1 = ISO639-3_ChangeRequest_SLV.doc (priloga 1; zadnja sprememba 6. decembra 2006)

MS 2 = ISO639-3_NewCodeRequest_Resian.doc (priloga 2; zadnja sprememba 6. decembra 2006)

Resianica = http://purl.org/resianica/

RFC 3066 = http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt

RFC 4646 = http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt

RFC 4647 = http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4647.txt

RFC 5646 = http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5646.txt

SSKJ = Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika 1–5, Ljubljana: SAZU oz. ZRC SAZU (izd.) – DZS (zal.), 1970–1991.

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Published

2015-07-28

How to Cite

Steenwijk, H. (2015). The meaning and scope of tags for linguistic varieties in information technology. Jezikoslovni Zapiski, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.3986/jz.v16i1.2396

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2010): Jezikoslovni zapiski

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