ISO 639-1 language code (two letters)
ID iso639_1
Pattern of languageNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Two-letter code of a language from ISO 639-1, such as en (English), de (German) or ja (Japanese). About 180 languages have such a code. It is written in lowercase, but data sets often use uppercase.
- Pattern of
- Language
language - Categories
- Common
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- FTA
LANGUAGE.ISO-639-1- Wikidata
- P218
- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)
Regular expression
^(?:[a-z]{2}|[A-Z]{2})$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| en | English |
| de | German |
| JA | Japanese, in uppercase |
| eng invalid | a three-letter ISO 639-2 code |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Код языка ISO 639-1 |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P218
- other: https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/iso639_1 - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/common/iso639_1.yamlon GitHub