Languages taxonomy

Introduction

The Languages taxonomy is one of the Taxonomies that form the basis of OFF. This taxonomy gives a list of all supported languages, their translations and short cuts (the language codes).

Language codes

ISO standards, basis for language codes

Implementation

The taxonomy currently in use is found on Github.

Wikidata

Relation with wikidata

Usage

Where is this taxonomy used?

Ideas

• The languages taxonomy only accepts two letter language code. Support of more languages requires the introduction of three letter language codes (Cantonese), country variants (Brazilian Portuguese) or scripts support.

Remark

In some taxonomies you might see the language code XX and ZZ. These have a special meaning for parsing and are not related to a specific language.