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iso-639-2

Info on ISO 639-2.

What is this?

This package contains info on ISO 639-2. ISO 639-2 is the alpha-3 code in Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 2.

When should I use this?

You can use this package any time you have to deal with languages or ISO 639-2 in particular. But ISO 639-3 might be better.

Install

This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 12.20+, 14.14+, or 16.0+), install with npm:

npm install iso-639-2

In Deno with esm.sh:

import {iso6392} from 'https://esm.sh/iso-639-2@3'

In browsers with esm.sh:

<script type="module">
  import {iso6392} from 'https://esm.sh/iso-639-2@3?bundle'
</script>

Use

import {iso6392} from 'iso-639-2'

iso6392.slice(120, 150)

Yields:

[
  {name: 'Egyptian (Ancient)', iso6392B: 'egy'},
  {name: 'Ekajuk', iso6392B: 'eka'},
  {name: 'Elamite', iso6392B: 'elx'},
  {name: 'English', iso6392B: 'eng', iso6391: 'en'},
  {name: 'English, Middle (1100-1500)', iso6392B: 'enm'},
  {name: 'Esperanto', iso6392B: 'epo', iso6391: 'eo'},
  {name: 'Estonian', iso6392B: 'est', iso6391: 'et'},
  {name: 'Ewe', iso6392B: 'ewe', iso6391: 'ee'},
  {name: 'Ewondo', iso6392B: 'ewo'},
  {name: 'Fang', iso6392B: 'fan'},
  {name: 'Faroese', iso6392B: 'fao', iso6391: 'fo'},
  {name: 'Fanti', iso6392B: 'fat'},
  {name: 'Fijian', iso6392B: 'fij', iso6391: 'fj'},
  {name: 'Filipino; Pilipino', iso6392B: 'fil'},
  {name: 'Finnish', iso6392B: 'fin', iso6391: 'fi'},
  {name: 'Finno-Ugrian languages', iso6392B: 'fiu'},
  {name: 'Fon', iso6392B: 'fon'},
  {name: 'French', iso6392B: 'fre', iso6392T: 'fra', iso6391: 'fr'},
  {name: 'French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)', iso6392B: 'frm'},
  {name: 'French, Old (842-ca.1400)', iso6392B: 'fro'},
  {name: 'Northern Frisian', iso6392B: 'frr'},
  {name: 'Eastern Frisian', iso6392B: 'frs'},
  {name: 'Western Frisian', iso6392B: 'fry', iso6391: 'fy'},
  {name: 'Fulah', iso6392B: 'ful', iso6391: 'ff'},
  {name: 'Friulian', iso6392B: 'fur'},
  {name: 'Ga', iso6392B: 'gaa'},
  {name: 'Gayo', iso6392B: 'gay'},
  {name: 'Gbaya', iso6392B: 'gba'},
  {name: 'Germanic languages', iso6392B: 'gem'},
  {name: 'Georgian', iso6392B: 'geo', iso6392T: 'kat', iso6391: 'ka'}
]

API

This package exports the following identifiers: iso6392, iso6392BTo1, iso6392BTo2T, iso6392TTo1, and iso6392TTo2B. There is no default export.

`iso6392`

List of languages (Array<Language>).

`Language`

name (string) — language name
iso6392B (string) — bibliographic code
iso6392T (string?) — terminologic code, missing when both 639-2 codes are the same (21 languages have different bibliographic and terminologic codes)
iso6391 (string?) — ISO 639-1 code

`iso6392BTo1`

ISO 639-2 Bibliographic (dut) to ISO 639-1 (nl) (Record<string, string>).

`iso6392BTo2T`

ISO 639-2 Bibliographic (dut) to ISO 639-2 Terminologic (nld) (Record<string, string>) Missing when the bibliographic and terminologic codes are the same.

`iso6392TTo1`

ISO 639-2 Terminologic (nld) to ISO 639-1 (nl) (Record<string, string>). Not all language in 639-2 were available in 639-1.

`iso6392TTo2B`

ISO 639-2 Terminologic (nld) to ISO 639-2 Bibliographic (dut) (Record<string, string>). Missing when the bibliographic and terminologic codes are the same.

Types

This package is fully typed with TypeScript. An additional Language type is exported that models its respective interface.

Data

The data is crawled from www.loc.gov.

Compatibility

This package is at least compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 12.20+, 14.14+, and 16.0+. It also works in Deno and modern browsers.