List of languages and their iso639-1 and iso639-2 codes

A dataset of the ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 language codes and their names in English, French, and German.

iso639

Format

A tibble with 507 rows and 7 columns:

  • iso639_1 the 2-letter code for the language

  • iso639_2 the 3-letter code for the language (the content of this column is the same as the column iso639_2_terminology)

  • iso639_2_bibliography the 3-letter code for the language using the "Bibliographic version" (also known as ISO639-2/B).

  • iso639_2_terminology the 3-letter code for the language using the "Terminology version" (also known as ISO639-2/T).

  • english_name the English name of the language

  • french_name the French name for the language

  • german_name the German name for the language

There are 21 languages that have different codes in the ISO639-2/B and ISO639-2/T codes. In general the T codes are prefered and the B codes are provided for compatibility.