
LANGUAGE TAGS - OBSOLETE - per [RFC4646]

(last updated 2006-09-27)

In "Tags for the Identification of Languages" [BCP47,RFC3066] there is
a provision for listing unique "tags" or names for languages and
variants of languages.  This document summaries the list of assigned
language tags.

Assigned Language Tags

Tag          Description                             Reference   Notes
-----------  -----------------------------           ---------   ---------

art-lojban   Lojban                                  [Cowan]     Deprecated use ISO 
                                                                 639-2 jbo, registered
                                                                 Sept. 2, 2003.

az-Arab      Azerbaijani in Arabic script            [Davis]

az-Cyrl      Azerbaijani in Cyrillic                 [Davis]
             script 

az-Latn      Azerbaijani in Latin script             [Davis]

be-Latn      Belarusian in Latin script              [Zedlik]

bs-Cyrl      Bosnian in Cyrillic script              [Constable]

bs-Latn      Bosnian in Latin script                 [Constable]

cel-gaulish  Gaulish                                 [Lilley]

de-1901      German, traditional                     [Bronger] 
             orthography     

de-1996      German, orthography of 1996             [Bronger]

de-AT-1901   German, Austrian variant,               [Bronger] 
             traditional orthography

de-AT-1996   German, Austrian variant,               [Bronger] 
             orthography of 1996

de-CH-1901   German, Swiss variant,                  [Bronger] 
             traditional orthography

de-CH-1996   German, Swiss variant,                  [Bronger] 
             orthography of 1996

de-DE-1901   German, German variant,                 [Bronger] 
             traditional orthography

de-DE-1996   German, German variant,                 [Bronger] 
             orthography of 1996

el-Latn      Greek in Latin script                   [Pardon]

en-boont     Boontling                               [Cowan]

en-GB-oed    English, Oxford English Dictionary spelling  [Everson]

en-scouse    English Liverpudlian dialect            [Szlamp]
             known as 'Scouse'

es-419       Latin American Spanish                  [Broome]

i-ami        Amis                                    [Tai]

i-bnn        Bunun                                   [Tai]

i-default    Default Language Context                [RFC2277]

i-enochian   Enochian                                [Zawinski]

i-hak        Hakka                                   [Tai]       Deprecated use IETF
                                                                 zh-hakka, registered
                                                                 Jan. 10, 2000
																 
i-klingon    Klingon                                 [Everson]   Deprecated use ISO
                                                                 639-2 tlh, registered
																 Feb. 24, 2004.

i-lux        Luxembourgish                           [Wimmer]    Deprecated use ISO
                                                                 639 lb, registered
                                                                 Sept. 9, 1998
                                                                 [iso639] 
i-mingo      Mingo                                   [Burke]

i-navajo     Navajo			                         [Burke]     Deprecated use ISO
                                                                 639 nv, registered
                                                                 Feb. 18, 2000 
                                                                 [iso639]
i-pwn        Paiwan                                  [Tai]

i-tao        Tao                                     [Tai]

i-tay        Tayal                                   [Tai]

i-tsu	     Tsou                                    [Tai] 

iu-Cans      Inuktitut in Canadian Aboriginal        [Constable]

iu-Latn      Inuktitut in Latin script               [Constable]

mn-Cyrl      Mongolian in Cyrillic script            [Constable]

mn-Mong      Mongolian in Mongolian script           [Constable]

no-bok       Norwegian "Book language"                            Deprecated use ISO
                                                                  639 nb, registered
                                                                  Feb. 18, 2000
                                                                  [iso639]

no-nyn       Norwegian "New Norwegian"                            Deprecated use ISO
                                                                  639 nn, registered
                                                                  Feb. 18, 2000
                                                                  [iso639]
sgn-BE-fr    Belgian-French Sign Language            [Everson]

sgn-BE-nl    Belgian-Flemish Sign Language           [Everson]

sgn-BR       Brazilian Sign Language                 [Everson]

sgn-CH-de    Swiss German Sign Language              [Everson]

sgn-CO       Colombian Sign Language                 [Everson]

sgn-DE       German Sign Language                    [Everson]

sgn-DK       Danish Sign Language                    [Everson]

sgn-ES       Spanish Sign Language                   [Everson]

sgn-FR       French Sign Language                    [Everson]

sgn-GB       British Sign Language                   [Everson]

sgn-GR       Greek Sign Language                     [Everson]

sgn-IE       Irish Sign Language                     [Everson]

sgn-IT       Italian Sign Language                   [Everson]

sgn-JP       Japanese Sign Language                  [Everson]

sgn-MX       Mexican Sign Language                   [Everson]

sgn-NI       Nicaraguan Sign Language                [Everson]

sgn-NL       Dutch Sign Language                     [Everson]

sgn-NO       Norwegian Sign Language                 [Everson]

sgn-PT       Portuguese Sign Language                [Everson]

sgn-SE       Swedish Sign Language                   [Everson]

sgn-US       American Sign Language                  [Everson]

sgn-ZA       South African Sign Language             [Everson]

sl-nedis     Natisone dialect, Nadiza dialect        [Steenwijk]

sl-rozaj     Resian, Resianic, Rezijan               [Steenwijk]

sr-Cyrl      Serbian in Cyrillic script              [Davis]

sr-Latn      Serbian in Latin script                 [Davis]

tg-Arab      Tajik in Arabic script                  [Constable]

tg-Cyrl      Tajik in Cyrillic script                [Constable]

uz-Cyrl      Uzbek in Cyrillic script                [Davis]

uz-Latn      Uzbek in Latin script                   [Davis]

yi-latn      Yiddish, in Latin script                [Burke]
 
zh-cmn       Mandarin Chinese                        [Broome]
 
zh-cmn-Hans  Mandarin Chinese (Simplified)           [Broome]

zh-cmn-Hant  Mandarin Chinese (Traditional)          [Broome]

zh-Hans      Chinese, in simplified script           [Davis]

zh-Hans-CN   PRC Mainland Chinese in simplified script  [Davis]

zh-Hans-HK   Hong Kong Chinese in simplified script  [Davis]

zh-Hans-MO   Macao Chinese in simplified script      [Davis]

zh-Hans-SG   Singapore Chinese in simplified script  [Davis]

zh-Hans-TW   Taiwan Chinese in simplified script     [Davis]

zh-Hant      Chinese, in traditional script          [Davis]
             
zh-Hant-CN   PRC Mainland Chinese in traditional script [Davis]

zh-Hant-HK   Hong Kong Chinese in traditional script [Davis]

zh-Hant-MO   Macao Chinese in traditional script     [Davis]

zh-Hant-SG   Singapore Chinese in traditional script [Davis]

zh-Hant-TW   Taiwan Chinese in traditional script    [Davis]

zh-gan       Kan or Gan                              [Compton]

zh-guoyu     Mandarin or Standard Chinese            [Compton, Cowan]   Deprecated, use zh-cmn
                                                                        registered in July 2005

zh-hakka     Hakka                                   [Compton, Cowan]

zh-min       Min, Fuzhou, Hokkien, Amoy              [Compton]
             or Taiwanese

zh-min-nan   Minnan, Hokkien, Amoy,                  [Tai]
             Taiwanese, Southern Min,
             Southern Fujian, Hoklo,
             Southern Fukien, Ho-lo

zh-wuu       Shanghaiese or Wu                       [Compton]

zh-xiang     Xiang or Hunanese                       [Compton]

zh-yue       Cantonese                               [Compton]


REFERENCES
----------
[iso639]  http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html

[RFC2277] Alvestrand, H. "IETF Policy on Character Sets and
          Languages", RFC 2277, Maxware, January 1998.

[RFC3066] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of Languages",
[BCP47]   RFC 3066, BCP 47, January 2001.

[RFC4646] A. Phillips and M. Davis, "Tags for Identifying Languages", 
          RFC 4646, September 2006.

PEOPLE
------
[Bronger] Torsten Bronger, <bronger&physik.rwth-aachen.de>, July 2002.

[Broome] Karen Broome, <Karen.Broome&spe.sony.com>, July 2005.

[Burke] Sean Burke, <sburke&cpan.org>, October 1997, January 2003.

[Compton] Clay Compton, <clayco&microsoft.com>, January 2000.

[Constable] Peter Constable, <petercon @ microsoft.com>, April 2005.

[Cowan] John Cowan, <jcowan&reutershealth.com>, April 2001, February 2003.
                    <cowan&ccil.org>, November 2001, September 2005.

[Davis] Mark Davis, <mark.davis&macchiato.com> or <mark.davis&us.ibm.com>, May 2003,
        April 2005.

[Everson] Michael Everson, <everson&evertype.com>, May 1999, 
          March 2001, November 2001, July 2003.

[Lilley] Chris Lilley, <chris&w3.org>, March 2001.

[Pardon] Luc Pardon, <lucp&skopos.be>, 28 September 2005.

[Steenwijk] Han Steenwijk, <han.steenwijk&unipd.it>, October 2003, June 2004.

[Szlamp] Keith Szlamp, <keith&szlamp.com>, ?.

[Tai] Kai-hus Tai, <kaihsu&ugcs.caltech.edu>, April. May 1999, 
      March 2001.

[Wimmer] Matthias Wimmer, <ich&matthias-wimmer.dec>, October 1999.

[Zawinski] Davina Zawinski, <dz&fatalist.uklinux.net>, July 2002.

[Zedlik] Jaska Zedlik, <jz53 @ zedlik.com>, April 2005. 

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