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ISO 639-6, Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 6: Alpha-4 code for comprehensive coverage of language variants, is an international standard in the ISO 639 series, developed by ISO/TC 37/SC 2 (International Organization for Standardization, Technical Committee 37, Subcommittee 2: Terminographical and lexicographical working methods). It contains four-letter codes that denote variants of languages. This allows to differentiate between, for example, historical (glvx) versus revived (rvmx) Manx, while ISO 639-3 only includes glv for Manx.

The data supporting ISO 639-6 is being researched and compiled by GeoLang on behalf of the British Standards Institution (BSI). ISO 693-6 was published in 2009. The database also links each language to its principal ancestor allowing the user to follow the develoment of various languages. For example, the codes and ancestry of English is given below:

Code	Language
eng	English
emen	Early Modern English
emse	Early Midland and South Eastern Middle English
meng	Middle English
ango	Anglo Saxon
angl	Anglic
nsea	North Sea
gmcw	Germanic West
grmc	Germanic
ineu	Indo-European
wrld	World

The database differentiates between different scripts used for the same language. For example, a number of different scripts were used in the Ottoman Empire and as a result the Ottoman Turkish language has been categorised as follows:

Code	Language
ota	Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
otaa	Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Armenian Script
otah	Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Hellenic Script
otap	Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Perso-Arabic Script

Források

• ISO 639-6 Home. (Hozzáférés: 2012. szeptember 16.)
• ISO 639-6:2009. (Hozzáférés: 2012. szeptember 16.)

Kapcsolódó szócikkek

• ISO 15924 Codes for the representation of names of scripts

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