Datatypes

ISO 639-3 language code

ID iso639_3

DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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Three-letter code of an individual language, macrolanguage or special code in ISO 639-3. It extends ISO 639-2 to cover all known living, extinct and constructed languages; SIL International maintains it.

Categories
Common
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Bioregistry
iso.639-3
Wikidata
P220
Quality
80/100 · missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage
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Regular expression

^[a-z]{3}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
jpnJapanese
ukrUkrainian
pnbPunjabi

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