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ISO 639-5 (ISO 639-5:2008), titled "Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 5: Alpha-3 code for language families and groups", is an international-standard developed by ISO/TC 37/SC 2. The international standard was published on May 15, 2008.

It is part 5 of ISO 639.

Languages, families, or groups that have an ISO 639-2 code can be of type "group" (g) or "rest group" (r), where a "group" consists of several related languages, while a "rest group" is a group of several related languages, from which some specific languages have been excluded. In ISO 639-5, the "rest groups" have been redefined to cover its entire group; thus, their meaning cannot be ascertained without knowing whether they are used in their ISO 639-2 meaning or their ISO 639-5 meaning.

Examples of the relation to ISO 639-2:

• ISO 639-2 code, rest group: Afro-Asiatic languages - afa - r
• ISO 639-2 code, normal group: Algonquian languages - alg - g
• no ISO 639-2 code: Albanian languages - sqj

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

• http://flrc.mitre.org/References/Standards/files/ISO_DIS_639-5_(B).PDF - 2006 draft
• http://web.archive.org/web/20060928120811/http://www.niso.org/international/SC4/N585.pdf
• http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2004-August/002223.html
• http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39536

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