appears_in: []
contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: Since the introduction of ISO 639-3 in 2007, access to language information
  has increased tremendously. The code set initially adopted as ISO639-3:2007 was
  based on a harmonization of ISO 639-2 with the code set of SIL’s Ethnologue 15th
  edition and languages from Linguist List to form a comprehensive set of code elements
  for world languages.  SIL International, the Language Coding Agency for 639-3, relies
  on the contributions of linguists, language coding experts, and language users around
  the world to maintain and improve the code set through the change request process
  defined in the ISO 639 standard. [from homepage]
example: spa
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 1614
homepage: https://iso639-3.sil.org/
keywords:
- computer science
- informatics
- language
- linguistics
mappings:
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.33aa85
  hl7: 1.0.639.3
name: ISO 639 3-Letter Language Code
preferred_prefix: iso.639-3
prefix: iso.639-3
providers:
- code: loc
  description: ISO 639-2 is part of the ISO 639 language code family, which provides
    also a two-character code set (ISO 639-1) for the representation of names of languages.
    ISO 639-2 contains codes for all languages contained in ISO 639-1 and several
    hundred additional languages. The ISO 639-2 (Bibliographic) codes were devised
    for use in bibliographic metadata, e.g., for libraries, information services,
    and publishers, and ISO 639-2 (Terminology) targets terminology, lexicography,
    and linguistic applications. The lists are the same except for 20 languages that
    have different Bibliographic and Terminology codes. The list contains over 500
    discrete codes. The ISO 639-2 (Bibliographic) codes are equivalent to the MARC
    Language Codes. The ISO 639-2 codes are linked to two-character codes for the
    same language in ISO 639-1, to the MARC Language Codes, and to equivalent codes
    for language groups in ISO 639-5. [from homepage]
  homepage: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2
  name: 'ISO 639-2: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages - Part 2: Alpha-3
    Code for the Names of Languages'
  uri_format: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/$1
publications: []
synonyms: []
uri_format: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/$1
