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language code

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(human language, standard)language code - A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code.

The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series.

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There are also country codes.
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Katz already was ahead of the times in contemplating real broadened theoretical horizons, such as a Chinese or wider Asiatic origin for these American civilizations, so his work is still surprisingly up-to-date and fresh, even given the recent advances such as the breaking of the Mayan language code.
The Ancient American Civilizations by Fortenberry, Thomas / Reviewer's Bookwatch
I understood by then that a community keeps its language code flexible, open to new fillips and twists, in order to keep Outsiders perpetually off-balance, mystified by it.
"If I was doing it proper, what was you laughing at?": some notes on ... by Wolff, Virginia Euwer / The Horn Book Magazine
At once rationalist and (neo)Romanticist, technocratic and ambivalently spiritual, Matt Mullican's work has consistently traced a paradox of late-modern subjectivity: the tension between a private language code (resistant to the norms of everyday communication) and the desire to feed into the logic of our regulated, postindustrial society.
Matt Mullican by Decter, Joshua / Artforum International
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