CODES FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF LANGUAGES FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE

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Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Publisher

National Information Standards Organization

Foreword
1 Purpose and Scope
  1.1 Purpose
  1.2 Scope
      1.2.1 Usage
      1.2.2 Limitation
2 General Principles of the List
  2.1 Structure of the Language Codes
  2.2 Specificity of the Language Codes
  2.3 Future Development
  2.4 Script
  2.5 Special Language Codes
      2.5.1 Language Code MIS
      2.5.2 Language Code ART
      2.5.3 Language Code MUL
      2.5.4 Language Code UND
3 Structure of the List of Language Codes
  3.1 Descriptors
  3.2 Arrangement of the List of Language Codes
4 Maintenance agency
Tables
Table 1 - List of Language Codes in Alphabetical
          Order by Code
Table 2 - List of Language Codes in Alphabetical
          Order by Descriptor
Table 3 - List of Obsolete Language Codes
Appendix
    Designation of Maintenance Agency

Gives a standardized code for libraries, information services and publishers to indicate language in exchange of information. This standard is not a prescriptive device for the definition of language and dialects but rather a list reflecting the need to distinguish recorded information by language.

DevelopmentNote	Revision of ANSI Z39.53. (05/2002)
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	25
PublisherName	National Information Standards Organization
Status	Current
Supersedes	ANSI Z39.53 : 1994

I.S. CWA 14929:2004	INTERNATIONALISATION OF SIF AND HARMONISATION WITH OTHER SPECS/STANDARDS
UNI ISO 23950 : 2011	INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION - INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (Z39.50) - APPLICATION SERVICE DEFINITION AND PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION
NISO Z39.50 : 2003	INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (Z39.50): APPLICATION SERVICE DEFINITION AND PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION