---
id: "language"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["common"]
langs: ["cs", "da", "de", "en", "es", "fi", "fr", "it", "ja", "nl", "pl", "pt", "ro", "ru", "sv"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/language"
---

# Language (`language`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Common (common)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Czech (cs), Danish (da), German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Swedish (sv)
- Classification: categorical
- Patterns: `iso639_1`, `iso639_2`

## Examples

- `English`
- `Deutsch` — German, in German
- `allemand` — German, in French

## Mappings

- 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: `language`

## Supported by tools

- `collibra`
- `doduo`
- `fta`
- `greatexpectations`
- `ibmknowledgecatalog`
- `sato`
- `sherlock`
- `talend`

## Translations

- ru: Язык

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34770>
- schema.org: <https://schema.org/Language>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/language.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/common/language.yaml>