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]

Prefix

iso.639-3

Keywords

computer science informatics language linguistics

Links

Homepage Request Discussion

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

spa   Resolve

Example CURIE

iso.639-3:spa

Contact

Missing Contact

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 2 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier spa is used to demonstrate the providers available for ISO 639 3-Letter Language Code. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.