BCP 47 (Tags for Identifying Languages)

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Tags for Identifying Languages

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Canonical URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47
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BCP 47 is a document specification that defines the syntax that is to be used to take the ISO 639 constracts can be utilized to describe language codes.

"Language tags are used to help identify languages, whether spoken, written, signed, or otherwise signaled, for the purpose of communication. This includes constructed and artificial languages but excludes languages not intended primarily for human communication, such as programming languages."

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For version information, see here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-5.1

For language tag stability information, see here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#page-1-36

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