Re: Abbreviations for Languages?

["Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>]

On Mon, November 25, 2013 1:46 pm, Nancy Allison wrote:
>    Hi, all.
>
>    We are setting up a filename standard that will use abbreviations for
>    languages. We thought that we would use 2-letter abbreviations, such as
>    EN for English and FR for French, but then someone pointed out that
>    there are regional variations of languages, like British English and
>    American English, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, and so on.
>
>    Is there any standard set of abbreviations for languages, used by
>    translation houses, or ISO, or anything like that?
>
>    A quick survey of our communcations with our translation houses did not
>    turn up anything consistent, but that doesn't mean there's not
>    something out there that we might find useful.
>
>    Thanks for all suggestions.

Here's one: http://www.localeplanet.com/icu/iso639.html



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