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ISO 639-5

ISO 639-5:2008 "Codes for the representation of names of languages—Part 5: Alpha-3 code for language families and groups" is a highly incomplete international standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It was developed by ISO Technical Committee 37, Subcommittee 2, and first published on May 15, 2008. It is part of the ISO 639 series of standards.

History[edit]

The committee draft of ISO 639-5 was issued on February 23, 2005. Voting on the draft terminated on July 5, 2005; the draft was approved.


In 2006, the target publication date for the final standard was set at October 30, 2007. During the approval stage for the standard, the ISO final draft international standard ballot was not initiated until February 8, 2008. Voting ended on April 10, 2008 ("stage 50.60").


The standard was published on May 15, 2008.


Updates were made in August 2008, February 2009, and February 2013.[1]

Deficiencies[edit]

The ISO 639-5 code-set represents a very tiny proportion of the language families and groups of the world. A more complete attempt at coding was ISO 639-6 (withdrawn in 2014).

(PDF). www.niso.org. National Information Standards Organization. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2006.

"ISO 639 Registration Authority Report 2004–2005"

Constable, Peter (August 20, 2004). . ietf-languages (Mailing list). Retrieved August 23, 2010.

"What's the plan for ISO 639-3 and RFC 3066 ter?"

ISO website for purchasing a copy of the ISO 639-5 standard