NAME

iso639 - a simple script to convert language codes

SYNOPSIS

  iso639 [OPTIONS] LANGCODE*

This converts all language codes given as LANGCODE to corresponding language names. OPTIONS can be set to convert between different variants of language codes or to convert from language names to codes.

OPTIONS

  -2: convert to two-letter code (ISO 639-1)
  -3: convert to three-letter code (ISO 639-3)
  -m: convert to three-letter code but return the macro-language if available (ISO 639-3)
  -n: don't print a final new line
  -k: keep original code if no mapping is found

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The language codes are taken from SIL International https://iso639-3.sil.org. Please, check the terms of use listed at https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_tables/download_tables. The current version uses the UTF-8 tables distributed in iso-639-3_Code_Tables_20200130.zip from that website. This module adds some non-standard codes that are not specified in the original tables to be compatible with some ad-hoc solutions in some resources and tools.

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