lbourdois/language_tags

Description

Dataset listing 27,328 languages and dialects (also includes macrolanguage names).
For each language, either the ISO 639 code, the Glottolog code or both are provided.

Columns

• English_Name: Language name in English (e.g. "French").
• Native_Name: If value is not 0, corresponds to the name of the language by native speakers (e.g. "Français") which may have been found in Wikipedia's nativename field.
• Glottocode: The language tag in the Glottolog convention (e.g. stan1290).
• near_ISO6393: the ISO 639-3 code closest to the Glottolog convention (e.g. fra) This information comes from Glottolog and may therefore be incomplete compared with column 639-3 from ISO.
• 639-3: The language tag in the ISO 639-3 convention (e.g. fra).
• 639-2_B: The language tag in the ISO 639-2_B (B for bibliographic) convention (e.g. fre).
• 639-2_T: The language tag in the ISO 639-2_T (T for terminological) convention (e.g. fra).
• 639-1: The language tag in the ISO 639-1 convention (e.g. fr).
• Scope: If value is not 0, I for an individual language (e.g. "French"), 'M' for a macrolanguage, 'S' for special i.e non-language codes (e.g. "und" for Undetermined)).
• Language_Type: If value is not 0, A for ancient language that went extinct long ago (e.g. got for Gothic), C for constructed i.e artificial languages, excluding programming languages (e.g. epo for Esperanto), E for extinct i.e. language that went extinct recently (e.g. rbp for Barababaraba), H for historical i.e. extinct language distinct from modern languages that descended from it (e.g. ofs for Old Frisian), L for living i.e. currently spoken language (e.g. fra for French), S for special i.e. non-language codes (e.g. und for Undetermined).
• #L1_Speakers: Indicates a (rounded) estimate of the number of speakers (L1) per language; the estimate comes from Writing System and Speaker Metadata for 2,800+ Language Varieties.