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ISO 639

standard for representation of names for language and language groups
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ISO 639

Summary

ISO 639 is an ISO standard[1]. It draws 117 Wikipedia views per month (iso_standard category, ranking #28 of 128).[2]

Key Facts

  • ISO 639's instance of is recorded as ISO standard[3].
  • ISO 639's maintained by is recorded as Standards Council of Canada[4].
  • ISO 639's Commons category is recorded as ISO 639[5].
  • ISO 639's ISO standard is recorded as 639[6].
  • ISO 639's has part is recorded as ISO 639-1[7].
  • ISO 639's has part is recorded as ISO 639-2[8].
  • ISO 639's has part is recorded as ISO 639-3[9].
  • ISO 639's has part is recorded as ISO 639 Set 5[10].
  • ISO 639's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0169vh[11].
  • ISO 639's official website is recorded as https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-code[12].
  • ISO 639's topic's main category is recorded as Category:ISO 639[13].
  • ISO 639's main subject is recorded as language identifier[14].
  • ISO 639's main subject is recorded as language[15].
  • ISO 639's main subject is recorded as language family[16].
  • ISO 639's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1537866[17].
  • ISO 639's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'ISO 639:2023 Code for individual languages and language groups'}[18].
  • ISO 639's standards body is recorded as International Organization for Standardization[19].
  • ISO 639's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00909204n[20].
  • ISO 639's ITU/ISO/IEC object ID is recorded as 1.0.639[21].
  • ISO 639's International Classification for Standards is recorded as 01.140.20[22].
  • ISO 639's KBpedia ID is recorded as ISO639[23].

Body

Designation and Status

ISO 639's instance of is recorded as ISO standard[3].

Why It Matters

ISO 639 draws 117 Wikipedia views per month (iso_standard category, ranking #28 of 128).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso.org. iso.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . iso.org. iso.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Recommendation X.660 (07/2011): Information technology – Procedures for the operation of object identifier registration authorities: General procedures and top arcs of the international object identifier tree. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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