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ISO 639-2

Summary

ISO 639-2 is an ISO standard[1]. It draws 223 Wikipedia views per month (iso_standard category, ranking #20 of 128).[2]

Key Facts

  • ISO 639-2's instance of is recorded as set of standard[3].
  • ISO 639-2's maintained by is recorded as Library of Congress[4].
  • ISO 639-2's part of is recorded as ISO 639[5].
  • ISO 639-2's ISO standard is recorded as 639–2[6].
  • ISO 639-2's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/020gz7[7].
  • ISO 639-2's official website is recorded as http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/[8].
  • ISO 639-2's topic's main category is recorded as Category:ISO 639-2[9].
  • ISO 639-2's main subject is recorded as ISO 639-2 code[10].
  • ISO 639-2's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 415443[11].
  • ISO 639-2's topic has template is recorded as Template:ISO 639 code-2[12].
  • ISO 639-2's standards body is recorded as International Organization for Standardization[13].
  • ISO 639-2's ITU/ISO/IEC object ID is recorded as 1.0.639.2[14].
  • ISO 639-2's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as languageschemes/iso6392b[15].
  • ISO 639-2's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as iso639-2[16].

Body

Geography

ISO 639-2's part of is recorded as ISO 639[5].

Designation and Status

ISO 639-2's instance of is recorded as set of standard[3].

Why It Matters

ISO 639-2 draws 223 Wikipedia views per month (iso_standard category, ranking #20 of 128).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . iso.org. iso.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . 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.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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