Datatypes

Language

ID language

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Human language written as a name, such as English, Deutsch or allemand (German in French), or as a code. Codes have their own patterns: iso639_1 (two letters) and iso639_2 (three letters). A language tag with region or script subtags, such as en-GB, is the datatype languagetag.

Categories
Common
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish
FTA
LANGUAGE.TEXT_CS, LANGUAGE.TEXT_DA, LANGUAGE.TEXT_DE, LANGUAGE.TEXT_EN, LANGUAGE.TEXT_ES, LANGUAGE.TEXT_FI, LANGUAGE.TEXT_FR, LANGUAGE.TEXT_IT, LANGUAGE.TEXT_JA, LANGUAGE.TEXT_NL, LANGUAGE.TEXT_PL, LANGUAGE.TEXT_PT, LANGUAGE.TEXT_RO, LANGUAGE.TEXT_RU, LANGUAGE.TEXT_SV
Sherlock and Sato
language
Quality
75/100 · missing: regexp, negative example
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
Collibra Data Classification, Doduo, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Great Expectations Semantic Types Expectations, IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), Sato, Sherlock, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)

Examples

ValueDescription
English
DeutschGerman, in German
allemandGerman, in French

Patterns

Specific representations of this datatype.

IDNameCategoriesCountriesDescription
iso639_1 ISO 639-1 language code (two letters) pattern draft common global 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....
iso639_2 ISO 639-2 language code (three letters) pattern draft common global Three-letter code of a language from ISO 639-2, such as eng (English) or rus (Russian). About twenty languages have two codes: a...

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianЯзык

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