ISO 639

ISO 639 is a set of standards by the International Organization for Standardization that is concerned with representation of names for language and language groups.

It was also the name of the original standard, approved in 1967 (as ISO 639/R) and withdrawn in 2002. The ISO 639 set consists of five parts.

The current and historical parts of the standard

Each part of the standard is maintained by a maintenance agency, which adds codes and changes the status of codes when needed. ISO 639-6 was withdrawn in 2014.

Characteristics of individual codes

Scopes:

Individual languages

Macrolanguages (part 3)

Collections of languages (part 1, 2, 5) (part 1 contains only 1 collection: bh; most collections are in part 2, and a few were added in part 5)

Group
Rest group

Group

Rest group

Dialects

Reserved for local use (part 2, 3)

Special situations (part 2, 3)

Types (for individual languages):

Living languages (part 2, 3) (all macrolanguages are living languages)

Extinct languages (part 2, 3) (437, four in part 2 chb, chg, cop, sam; none in part 1)

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ISO 639:s

This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with S.

Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z

Abbreviations are used in the table as follows:

Scope: I = individual language, M = macrolanguage, S = special code

Type: A = ancient (extinct since ancient times), C = constructed, E = extinct (in recent times), H = historical (distinct from its modern form), L = living, S = special code

Retired codes are enclosed in (parentheses).

The column Family contains the generic English name of the language's family or macrolanguage.