[sword-devel] 3-letter language character codes

[DM Smith]

JSword gets its list from SIL.org. We merge the active and retired lists 
into one. I update it once or twice a year as we get modules with codes 
that are new.

In Him,
     DM

On 11/09/2009 10:40 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
> I don't know for sure that they're accurate, but all 6 that you just
> listed are on this page:
> http://www.virtualstorehouse.org/buyBibles.htm
>
> Also, the commit log for JSword (the Java port of SWORD) lists these
> entries here, though spellings may differ from the above link:
> http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/jsword-svn/2008-July/003188.html
>
> --Greg
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Nic Carter<niccarter at mac.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi all, I have a question about where we get our 3-letter character codes
>> for the languages of our modules from?
>> I just added code to lookup (from the data available at
>> http://www.sil.org/ISO639-3/default.asp ) what the different languages are
>> that we have modules in, but I still end up with the following language
>> codes as unknown:
>>
>> ckw (from ckw_WBTI_1996)
>> cti (from cti_BL_1976)
>> mvc (from mvc_WBTI_2002)
>> mvj (from mvj_WBTI_2000)
>> qut (from qut_WBTI_1997)
>> tzz (from tzz_BL_1987)
>>
>> These are all from the crosswire beta modules site...
>> I was awesomely impressed with the huge range of languages available through
>> the crosswire&  crosswire beta sources (&  I'm ignoring the experimental repo
>> atm!)&  it further reminds me of how sheltered I am for only knowing one
>> language (and several computer languages!)...
>>
>> Anyway, can anyone point me to where I can look up these extra language
>> codes?  Or are these for languages that are so rare that they aren't even in
>> ISO639-3 yet&  they'll be added soon?  or . . .  ?  :)
>>
>> thanks all,
>>         nic...  :)
>>
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