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NAME
     I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages

SYNOPSIS
       use I18N::LangTags::List;
       print "Parlez-vous... ", join(', ',
	   I18N::LangTags::List::name('elx') || 'unknown_language',
	   I18N::LangTags::List::name('ar-Kw') || 'unknown_language',
	   I18N::LangTags::List::name('en') || 'unknown_language',
	   I18N::LangTags::List::name('en-CA') || 'unknown_language',
	 ), "?\n";

     prints:

       Parlez-vous... Elamite, Kuwait Arabic, English, Canadian English?

DESCRIPTION
     This module provides a function "I18N::LangTags::List::name(
     langtag ) " that takes a language tag (see I18N::LangTags)
     and returns the best attempt at an English name for it, or
     undef if it can't make sense of the tag.

     The function I18N::LangTags::List::name(...) is not
     exported.

     This module also provides a function
     "I18N::LangTags::List::is_decent( langtag )" that returns
     true iff the language tag is syntactically valid and is for
     general use (like "fr" or "fr-ca", below).	 That is, it
     returns false for tags that are syntactically invalid and
     for tags, like "aus", that are listed in brackets below.
     This function is not exported.

     The map of tags-to-names that it uses is accessable as
     %I18N::LangTags::List::Name, and it's the same as the list
     that follows in this documentation, which should be useful
     to you even if you don't use this module.

ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
     Internet language tags, as defined in RFC 3066, are a for-
     malism for denoting human languages.  The two-letter ISO
     639-1 language codes are well known (as "en" for English),
     as are their forms when qualified by a country code
     ("en-US").	 Less well-known are the arbitrary-length non-ISO
     codes (like "i-mingo"), and the recently (in 2001) intro-
     duced three-letter ISO-639-2 codes.

     Remember these important facts:

     +	 Language tags are not locale IDs.  A locale ID is writ-
	 ten with a "_" instead of a "-", (almost?) always
	 matches "m/^\w\w_\w\w\b/", and means something different

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	 than a language tag.  A language tag denotes a language.
	 A locale ID denotes a language as used in a particular
	 place, in combination with non-linguistic location-
	 specific information such as what currency is used
	 there.	 Locales also often denote character set informa-
	 tion, as in "en_US.ISO8859-1".

     +	 Language tags are not for computer languages.

     +	 "Dialect" is not a useful term, since there is no objec-
	 tive criterion for establishing when two language-forms
	 are dialects of eachother, or are separate languages.

     +	 Language tags are not case-sensitive.	en-US, en-us,
	 En-Us, etc., are all the same tag, and denote the same
	 language.

     +	 Not every language tag really refers to a single
	 language.  Some language tags refer to conditions:
	 i-default (system-message text in English plus maybe
	 other languages), und (undetermined language).	 Others
	 (notably lots of the three-letter codes) are biblio-
	 graphic tags that classify whole groups of languages, as
	 with cus "Cushitic (Other)" (i.e., a language that has
	 been classed as Cushtic, but which has no more specific
	 code) or the even less linguistically coherent sai for
	 "South American Indian (Other)".  Though useful in
	 bibliography, SUCH TAGS ARE NOT FOR GENERAL USE.  For
	 further guidance, email me.

     +	 Language tags are not country codes.  In fact, they are
	 often distinct codes, as with language tag ja for
	 Japanese, and ISO 3166 country code ".jp" for Japan.

LIST OF LANGUAGES
     The first part of each item is the language tag, between
     {...}.  It is followed by an English name for the language
     or language-group. Language tags that I judge to be not for
     general use, are bracketed.

     This list is in alphabetical order by English name of the
     language.

     {ab} : Abkhazian
	 eq Abkhaz

     {ace} : Achinese
     {ach} : Acoli
     {ada} : Adangme
     {ady} : Adyghe
	 eq Adygei

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     {aa} : Afar
     {afh} : Afrihili
	 (Artificial)

     {af} : Afrikaans
     [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)]
     {ak} : Akan
	 (Formerly "aka".)

     {akk} : Akkadian
	 (Historical)

     {sq} : Albanian
     {ale} : Aleut
     [{alg} : Algonquian languages]
	 NOT Algonquin!

     [{tut} : Altaic (Other)]
     {am} : Amharic
	 NOT Aramaic!

     {i-ami} : Ami
	 eq Amis.  eq 'Amis.  eq Pangca.

     [{apa} : Apache languages]
     {ar} : Arabic
	 Many forms are mutually un-intelligible in spoken media.
	 Notable forms: {ar-ae} UAE Arabic; {ar-bh} Bahrain Ara-
	 bic; {ar-dz} Algerian Arabic; {ar-eg} Egyptian Arabic;
	 {ar-iq} Iraqi Arabic; {ar-jo} Jordanian Arabic; {ar-kw}
	 Kuwait Arabic; {ar-lb} Lebanese Arabic; {ar-ly} Libyan
	 Arabic; {ar-ma} Moroccan Arabic; {ar-om} Omani Arabic;
	 {ar-qa} Qatari Arabic; {ar-sa} Sauda Arabic; {ar-sy}
	 Syrian Arabic; {ar-tn} Tunisian Arabic; {ar-ye} Yemen
	 Arabic.

     {arc} : Aramaic
	 NOT Amharic!  NOT Samaritan Aramaic!

     {arp} : Arapaho
     {arn} : Araucanian
     {arw} : Arawak
     {hy} : Armenian
     {an} : Aragonese
     [{art} : Artificial (Other)]
     {ast} : Asturian
	 eq Bable.

     {as} : Assamese
     [{ath} : Athapascan languages]
	 eq Athabaskan.	 eq Athapaskan.	 eq Athabascan.

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     [{aus} : Australian languages]
     [{map} : Austronesian (Other)]
     {av} : Avaric
	 (Formerly "ava".)

     {ae} : Avestan
	 eq Zend

     {awa} : Awadhi
     {ay} : Aymara
     {az} : Azerbaijani
	 eq Azeri

	 Notable forms: {az-Arab} Azerbaijani in Arabic script;
	 {az-Cyrl} Azerbaijani in Cyrillic script; {az-Latn}
	 Azerbaijani in Latin script.

     {ban} : Balinese
     [{bat} : Baltic (Other)]
     {bal} : Baluchi
     {bm} : Bambara
	 (Formerly "bam".)

     [{bai} : Bamileke languages]
     {bad} : Banda
     [{bnt} : Bantu (Other)]
     {bas} : Basa
     {ba} : Bashkir
     {eu} : Basque
     {btk} : Batak (Indonesia)
     {bej} : Beja
     {be} : Belarusian
	 eq Belarussian.  eq Byelarussian. eq Belorussian.  eq
	 Byelorussian. eq White Russian.  eq White Ruthenian. NOT
	 Ruthenian!

     {bem} : Bemba
     {bn} : Bengali
	 eq Bangla.

     [{ber} : Berber (Other)]
     {bho} : Bhojpuri
     {bh} : Bihari
     {bik} : Bikol
     {bin} : Bini
     {bi} : Bislama
	 eq Bichelamar.

     {bs} : Bosnian
     {bra} : Braj
     {br} : Breton
     {bug} : Buginese

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     {bg} : Bulgarian
     {i-bnn} : Bunun
     {bua} : Buriat
     {my} : Burmese
     {cad} : Caddo
     {car} : Carib
     {ca} : Catalan
	 eq Catalan.  eq Catalonian.

     [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)]
     {ceb} : Cebuano
     [{cel} : Celtic (Other)]
	 Notable forms: {cel-gaulish} Gaulish (Historical)

     [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)]
     {chg} : Chagatai
	 (Historical?)

     [{cmc} : Chamic languages]
     {ch} : Chamorro
     {ce} : Chechen
     {chr} : Cherokee
	 eq Tsalagi

     {chy} : Cheyenne
     {chb} : Chibcha
	 (Historical)  NOT Chibchan (which is a language family).

     {ny} : Chichewa
	 eq Nyanja.  eq Chinyanja.

     {zh} : Chinese
	 Many forms are mutually un-intelligible in spoken media.
	 Notable forms: {zh-Hans} Chinese, in simplified script;
	 {zh-Hant} Chinese, in traditional script; {zh-tw} Taiwan
	 Chinese; {zh-cn} PRC Chinese; {zh-sg} Singapore Chinese;
	 {zh-mo} Macau Chinese; {zh-hk} Hong Kong Chinese;
	 {zh-guoyu} Mandarin [Putonghua/Guoyu]; {zh-hakka} Hakka
	 [formerly "i-hakka"]; {zh-min} Hokkien; {zh-min-nan}
	 Southern Hokkien; {zh-wuu} Shanghaiese; {zh-xiang}
	 Hunanese; {zh-gan} Gan; {zh-yue} Cantonese.

     {chn} : Chinook Jargon
	 eq Chinook Wawa.

     {chp} : Chipewyan
     {cho} : Choctaw
     {cu} : Church Slavic
	 eq Old Church Slavonic.

     {chk} : Chuukese
	 eq Trukese.  eq Chuuk.	 eq Truk.  eq Ruk.

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     {cv} : Chuvash
     {cop} : Coptic
     {kw} : Cornish
     {co} : Corsican
	 eq Corse.

     {cr} : Cree
	 NOT Creek!  (Formerly "cre".)

     {mus} : Creek
	 NOT Cree!

     [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)]
     [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)]
     [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)]
     [{crp} : Creoles and pidgins (Other)]
     {hr} : Croatian
	 eq Croat.

     [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)]
     {cs} : Czech
     {dak} : Dakota
	 eq Nakota.  eq Latoka.

     {da} : Danish
     {dar} : Dargwa
     {day} : Dayak
     {i-default} : Default (Fallthru) Language
	 Defined in RFC 2277, this is for tagging text (which
	 must include English text, and might/should include text
	 in other appropriate languages) that is emitted in a
	 context where language-negotiation wasn't possible -- in
	 SMTP mail failure messages, for example.

     {del} : Delaware
     {din} : Dinka
     {dv} : Divehi
	 eq Maldivian.	(Formerly "div".)

     {doi} : Dogri
	 NOT Dogrib!

     {dgr} : Dogrib
	 NOT Dogri!

     [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)]
     {dua} : Duala
     {nl} : Dutch
	 eq Netherlander.  Notable forms: {nl-nl} Netherlands
	 Dutch; {nl-be} Belgian Dutch.

     {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350)

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	 (Historical)

     {dyu} : Dyula
     {dz} : Dzongkha
     {efi} : Efik
     {egy} : Ancient Egyptian
	 (Historical)

     {eka} : Ekajuk
     {elx} : Elamite
	 (Historical)

     {en} : English
	 Notable forms: {en-au} Australian English; {en-bz} Bel-
	 ize English; {en-ca} Canadian English; {en-gb} UK
	 English; {en-ie} Irish English; {en-jm} Jamaican
	 English; {en-nz} New Zealand English; {en-ph} Philippine
	 English; {en-tt} Trinidad English; {en-us} US English;
	 {en-za} South African English; {en-zw} Zimbabwe English.

     {enm} : Old English (1100-1500)
	 (Historical)

     {ang} : Old English (ca.450-1100)
	 eq Anglo-Saxon.  (Historical)

     {i-enochian} : Enochian (Artificial)
     {myv} : Erzya
     {eo} : Esperanto
	 (Artificial)

     {et} : Estonian
     {ee} : Ewe
	 (Formerly "ewe".)

     {ewo} : Ewondo
     {fan} : Fang
     {fat} : Fanti
     {fo} : Faroese
     {fj} : Fijian
     {fi} : Finnish
     [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)]
	 eq Finno-Ugric.  NOT Ugaritic!

     {fon} : Fon
     {fr} : French
	 Notable forms: {fr-fr} France French; {fr-be} Belgian
	 French; {fr-ca} Canadian French; {fr-ch} Swiss French;
	 {fr-lu} Luxembourg French; {fr-mc} Monaco French.

     {frm} : Middle French (ca.1400-1600)
	 (Historical)

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     {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400)
	 (Historical)

     {fy} : Frisian
     {fur} : Friulian
     {ff} : Fulah
	 (Formerly "ful".)

     {gaa} : Ga
     {gd} : Scots Gaelic
	 NOT Scots!

     {gl} : Gallegan
	 eq Galician

     {lg} : Ganda
	 (Formerly "lug".)

     {gay} : Gayo
     {gba} : Gbaya
     {gez} : Geez
	 eq Ge'ez

     {ka} : Georgian
     {de} : German
	 Notable forms: {de-at} Austrian German; {de-be} Belgian
	 German; {de-ch} Swiss German; {de-de} Germany German;
	 {de-li} Liechtenstein German; {de-lu} Luxembourg German.

     {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500)
	 (Historical)

     {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050)
	 (Historical)

     [{gem} : Germanic (Other)]
     {gil} : Gilbertese
     {gon} : Gondi
     {gor} : Gorontalo
     {got} : Gothic
	 (Historical)

     {grb} : Grebo
     {grc} : Ancient Greek
	 (Historical)  (Until 15th century or so.)

     {el} : Modern Greek
	 (Since 15th century or so.)

     {gn} : Guarani
	 Guarani

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     {gu} : Gujarati
     {gwi} : Gwich'in
	 eq Gwichin

     {hai} : Haida
     {ht} : Haitian
	 eq Haitian Creole

     {ha} : Hausa
     {haw} : Hawaiian
	 Hawai'ian

     {he} : Hebrew
	 (Formerly "iw".)

     {hz} : Herero
     {hil} : Hiligaynon
     {him} : Himachali
     {hi} : Hindi
     {ho} : Hiri Motu
     {hit} : Hittite
	 (Historical)

     {hmn} : Hmong
     {hu} : Hungarian
     {hup} : Hupa
     {iba} : Iban
     {is} : Icelandic
     {io} : Ido
	 (Artificial)

     {ig} : Igbo
	 (Formerly "ibo".)

     {ijo} : Ijo
     {ilo} : Iloko
     [{inc} : Indic (Other)]
     [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)]
     {id} : Indonesian
	 (Formerly "in".)

     {inh} : Ingush
     {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
	 (Artificial)  NOT Interlingue!

     {ie} : Interlingue
	 (Artificial)  NOT Interlingua!

     {iu} : Inuktitut
	 A subform of "Eskimo".

     {ik} : Inupiaq

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	 A subform of "Eskimo".

     [{ira} : Iranian (Other)]
     {ga} : Irish
     {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200)
	 (Historical)

     {sga} : Old Irish (to 900)
	 (Historical)

     [{iro} : Iroquoian languages]
     {it} : Italian
	 Notable forms: {it-it} Italy Italian; {it-ch} Swiss
	 Italian.

     {ja} : Japanese
	 (NOT "jp"!)

     {jv} : Javanese
	 (Formerly "jw" because of a typo.)

     {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic
     {jpr} : Judeo-Persian
     {kbd} : Kabardian
     {kab} : Kabyle
     {kac} : Kachin
     {kl} : Kalaallisut
	 eq Greenlandic "Eskimo"

     {xal} : Kalmyk
     {kam} : Kamba
     {kn} : Kannada
	 eq Kanarese.  NOT Canadian!

     {kr} : Kanuri
	 (Formerly "kau".)

     {krc} : Karachay-Balkar
     {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak
     {kar} : Karen
     {ks} : Kashmiri
     {csb} : Kashubian
	 eq Kashub

     {kaw} : Kawi
     {kk} : Kazakh
     {kha} : Khasi
     {km} : Khmer
	 eq Cambodian.	eq Kampuchean.

     [{khi} : Khoisan (Other)]
     {kho} : Khotanese

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     {ki} : Kikuyu
	 eq Gikuyu.

     {kmb} : Kimbundu
     {rw} : Kinyarwanda
     {ky} : Kirghiz
     {i-klingon} : Klingon
     {kv} : Komi
     {kg} : Kongo
	 (Formerly "kon".)

     {kok} : Konkani
     {ko} : Korean
     {kos} : Kosraean
     {kpe} : Kpelle
     {kro} : Kru
     {kj} : Kuanyama
     {kum} : Kumyk
     {ku} : Kurdish
     {kru} : Kurukh
     {kut} : Kutenai
     {lad} : Ladino
	 eq Judeo-Spanish.  NOT Ladin (a minority language in
	 Italy).

     {lah} : Lahnda
	 NOT Lamba!

     {lam} : Lamba
	 NOT Lahnda!

     {lo} : Lao
	 eq Laotian.

     {la} : Latin
	 (Historical)  NOT Ladin!  NOT Ladino!

     {lv} : Latvian
	 eq Lettish.

     {lb} : Letzeburgesch
	 eq Luxemburgian, eq Luxemburger.  (Formerly "i-lux".)

     {lez} : Lezghian
     {li} : Limburgish
	 eq Limburger, eq Limburgan.  NOT Letzeburgesch!

     {ln} : Lingala
     {lt} : Lithuanian
     {nds} : Low German
	 eq Low Saxon.	eq Low German.	eq Low Saxon.

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     {art-lojban} : Lojban (Artificial)
     {loz} : Lozi
     {lu} : Luba-Katanga
	 (Formerly "lub".)

     {lua} : Luba-Lulua
     {lui} : Luiseno
	 eq Luisen~o.

     {lun} : Lunda
     {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
     {lus} : Lushai
     {mk} : Macedonian
	 eq the modern Slavic language spoken in what was Yugos-
	 lavia. NOT the form of Greek spoken in Greek Macedonia!

     {mad} : Madurese
     {mag} : Magahi
     {mai} : Maithili
     {mak} : Makasar
     {mg} : Malagasy
     {ms} : Malay
	 NOT Malayalam!

     {ml} : Malayalam
	 NOT Malay!

     {mt} : Maltese
     {mnc} : Manchu
     {mdr} : Mandar
	 NOT Mandarin!

     {man} : Mandingo
     {mni} : Manipuri
	 eq Meithei.

     [{mno} : Manobo languages]
     {gv} : Manx
     {mi} : Maori
	 NOT Mari!

     {mr} : Marathi
     {chm} : Mari
	 NOT Maori!

     {mh} : Marshall
	 eq Marshallese.

     {mwr} : Marwari
     {mas} : Masai
     [{myn} : Mayan languages]
     {men} : Mende

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     {mic} : Micmac
     {min} : Minangkabau
     {i-mingo} : Mingo
	 eq the Irquoian language West Virginia Seneca.	 NOT New
	 York Seneca!

     [{mis} : Miscellaneous languages]
	 Don't use this.

     {moh} : Mohawk
     {mdf} : Moksha
     {mo} : Moldavian
	 eq Moldovan.

     [{mkh} : Mon-Khmer (Other)]
     {lol} : Mongo
     {mn} : Mongolian
	 eq Mongol.

     {mos} : Mossi
     [{mul} : Multiple languages]
	 Not for normal use.

     [{mun} : Munda languages]
     {nah} : Nahuatl
     {nap} : Neapolitan
     {na} : Nauru
     {nv} : Navajo
	 eq Navaho.  (Formerly "i-navajo".)

     {nd} : North Ndebele
     {nr} : South Ndebele
     {ng} : Ndonga
     {ne} : Nepali
	 eq Nepalese.  Notable forms: {ne-np} Nepal Nepali;
	 {ne-in} India Nepali.

     {new} : Newari
     {nia} : Nias
     [{nic} : Niger-Kordofanian (Other)]
     [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)]
     {niu} : Niuean
     {nog} : Nogai
     {non} : Old Norse
	 (Historical)

     [{nai} : North American Indian]
	 Do not use this.

     {no} : Norwegian
	 Note the two following forms:

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     {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal
	 eq Bokmaal, (A form of Norwegian.)  (Formerly "no-bok".)

     {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk
	 (A form of Norwegian.)	 (Formerly "no-nyn".)

     [{nub} : Nubian languages]
     {nym} : Nyamwezi
     {nyn} : Nyankole
     {nyo} : Nyoro
     {nzi} : Nzima
     {oc} : Occitan (post 1500)
	 eq Provencal, eq Provencal

     {oj} : Ojibwa
	 eq Ojibwe.  (Formerly "oji".)

     {or} : Oriya
     {om} : Oromo
     {osa} : Osage
     {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic
     [{oto} : Otomian languages]
	 Group of languages collectively called "Otomi".

     {pal} : Pahlavi
	 eq Pahlevi

     {i-pwn} : Paiwan
	 eq Pariwan

     {pau} : Palauan
     {pi} : Pali
	 (Historical?)

     {pam} : Pampanga
     {pag} : Pangasinan
     {pa} : Panjabi
	 eq Punjabi

     {pap} : Papiamento
	 eq Papiamentu.

     [{paa} : Papuan (Other)]
     {fa} : Persian
	 eq Farsi.  eq Iranian.

     {peo} : Old Persian (ca.600-400 B.C.)
     [{phi} : Philippine (Other)]
     {phn} : Phoenician
	 (Historical)

     {pon} : Pohnpeian

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	 NOT Pompeiian!

     {pl} : Polish
     {pt} : Portuguese
	 eq Portugese.	Notable forms: {pt-pt} Portugal Por-
	 tuguese; {pt-br} Brazilian Portuguese.

     [{pra} : Prakrit languages]
     {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500)
	 eq Old Provencal.  (Historical.)

     {ps} : Pushto
	 eq Pashto.  eq Pushtu.

     {qu} : Quechua
	 eq Quecha.

     {rm} : Raeto-Romance
	 eq Romansh.

     {raj} : Rajasthani
     {rap} : Rapanui
     {rar} : Rarotongan
     [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.]
     [{roa} : Romance (Other)]
	 NOT Romanian!	NOT Romany!  NOT Romansh!

     {ro} : Romanian
	 eq Rumanian.  NOT Romany!

     {rom} : Romany
	 eq Rom.  NOT Romanian!

     {rn} : Rundi
     {ru} : Russian
	 NOT White Russian!  NOT Rusyn!

     [{sal} : Salishan languages]
	 Large language group.

     {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic
	 NOT Aramaic!

     {se} : Northern Sami
	 eq Lappish.  eq Lapp.	eq (Northern) Saami.

     {sma} : Southern Sami
     {smn} : Inari Sami
     {smj} : Lule Sami
     {sms} : Skolt Sami
     [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)]
     {sm} : Samoan

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     {sad} : Sandawe
     {sg} : Sango
     {sa} : Sanskrit
	 (Historical)

     {sat} : Santali
     {sc} : Sardinian
	 eq Sard.

     {sas} : Sasak
     {sco} : Scots
	 NOT Scots Gaelic!

     {sel} : Selkup
     [{sem} : Semitic (Other)]
     {sr} : Serbian
	 eq Serb.  NOT Sorbian.

	 Notable forms: {sr-Cyrl} : Serbian in Cyrillic script;
	 {sr-Latn} : Serbian in Latin script.

     {srr} : Serer
     {shn} : Shan
     {sn} : Shona
     {sid} : Sidamo
     {sgn-...} : Sign Languages
	 Always use with a subtag.  Notable forms: {sgn-gb} Brit-
	 ish Sign Language (BSL); {sgn-ie} Irish Sign Language
	 (ESL); {sgn-ni} Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN); {sgn-us}
	 American Sign Language (ASL).

	 (And so on with other country codes as the subtag.)

     {bla} : Siksika
	 eq Blackfoot.	eq Pikanii.

     {sd} : Sindhi
     {si} : Sinhalese
	 eq Sinhala.

     [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)]
     [{sio} : Siouan languages]
     {den} : Slave (Athapascan)
	 ("Slavey" is a subform.)

     [{sla} : Slavic (Other)]
     {sk} : Slovak
	 eq Slovakian.

     {sl} : Slovenian
	 eq Slovene.

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     {sog} : Sogdian
     {so} : Somali
     {son} : Songhai
     {snk} : Soninke
     {wen} : Sorbian languages
	 eq Wendish.  eq Sorb.	eq Lusatian.  eq Wend.	NOT
	 Venda!	 NOT Serbian!

     {nso} : Northern Sotho
     {st} : Southern Sotho
	 eq Sutu.  eq Sesotho.

     [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)]
     {es} : Spanish
	 Notable forms: {es-ar} Argentine Spanish; {es-bo}
	 Bolivian Spanish; {es-cl} Chilean Spanish; {es-co}
	 Colombian Spanish; {es-do} Dominican Spanish; {es-ec}
	 Ecuadorian Spanish; {es-es} Spain Spanish; {es-gt}
	 Guatemalan Spanish; {es-hn} Honduran Spanish; {es-mx}
	 Mexican Spanish; {es-pa} Panamanian Spanish; {es-pe}
	 Peruvian Spanish; {es-pr} Puerto Rican Spanish; {es-py}
	 Paraguay Spanish; {es-sv} Salvadoran Spanish; {es-us} US
	 Spanish; {es-uy} Uruguayan Spanish; {es-ve} Venezuelan
	 Spanish.

     {suk} : Sukuma
     {sux} : Sumerian
	 (Historical)

     {su} : Sundanese
     {sus} : Susu
     {sw} : Swahili
	 eq Kiswahili

     {ss} : Swati
     {sv} : Swedish
	 Notable forms: {sv-se} Sweden Swedish; {sv-fi} Finland
	 Swedish.

     {syr} : Syriac
     {tl} : Tagalog
     {ty} : Tahitian
     [{tai} : Tai (Other)]
	 NOT Thai!

     {tg} : Tajik
     {tmh} : Tamashek
     {ta} : Tamil
     {i-tao} : Tao
	 eq Yami.

     {tt} : Tatar

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     {i-tay} : Tayal
	 eq Atayal.  eq Atayan.

     {te} : Telugu
     {ter} : Tereno
     {tet} : Tetum
     {th} : Thai
	 NOT Tai!

     {bo} : Tibetan
     {tig} : Tigre
     {ti} : Tigrinya
     {tem} : Timne
	 eq Themne.  eq Timene.

     {tiv} : Tiv
     {tli} : Tlingit
     {tpi} : Tok Pisin
     {tkl} : Tokelau
     {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa)
	 NOT Tsonga!

     {to} : Tonga (Tonga Islands)
	 (Pronounced "Tong-a", not "Tong-ga")

	 NOT Tsonga!

     {tsi} : Tsimshian
	 eq Sm'algyax

     {ts} : Tsonga
	 NOT Tonga!

     {i-tsu} : Tsou
     {tn} : Tswana
	 Same as Setswana.

     {tum} : Tumbuka
     [{tup} : Tupi languages]
     {tr} : Turkish
	 (Typically in Roman script)

     {ota} : Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928)
	 (Typically in Arabic script)  (Historical)

     {crh} : Crimean Turkish
	 eq Crimean Tatar

     {tk} : Turkmen
	 eq Turkmeni.

     {tvl} : Tuvalu

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     {tyv} : Tuvinian
	 eq Tuvan.  eq Tuvin.

     {tw} : Twi
     {udm} : Udmurt
     {uga} : Ugaritic
	 NOT Ugric!

     {ug} : Uighur
     {uk} : Ukrainian
     {umb} : Umbundu
     {und} : Undetermined
	 Not a tag for normal use.

     {ur} : Urdu
     {uz} : Uzbek
	 eq Oezbek

	 Notable forms: {uz-Cyrl} Uzbek in Cyrillic script;
	 {uz-Latn} Uzbek in Latin script.

     {vai} : Vai
     {ve} : Venda
	 NOT Wendish!  NOT Wend!  NOT Avestan!	(Formerly "ven".)

     {vi} : Vietnamese
	 eq Viet.

     {vo} : Volapuk
	 eq Volapuek.  (Artificial)

     {vot} : Votic
	 eq Votian.  eq Vod.

     [{wak} : Wakashan languages]
     {wa} : Walloon
     {wal} : Walamo
	 eq Wolaytta.

     {war} : Waray
	 Presumably the Philippine language Waray-Waray
	 (Samaren~o), not the smaller Philippine language Waray
	 Sorsogon, nor the extinct Australian language Waray.

     {was} : Washo
	 eq Washoe

     {cy} : Welsh
     {wo} : Wolof
     {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use)
	 "x-" is a prefix for language tags that are not
	 registered with ISO or IANA.  Example, x-double-dutch

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     {xh} : Xhosa
     {sah} : Yakut
     {yao} : Yao
	 (The Yao in Malawi?)

     {yap} : Yapese
	 eq Yap

     {ii} : Sichuan Yi
     {yi} : Yiddish
	 Formerly "ji".	 Usually in Hebrew script.

	 Notable forms: {yi-latn} Yiddish in Latin script

     {yo} : Yoruba
     [{ypk} : Yupik languages]
	 Several "Eskimo" languages.

     {znd} : Zande
     [{zap} : Zapotec]
	 (A group of languages.)

     {zen} : Zenaga
	 NOT Zend.

     {za} : Zhuang
     {zu} : Zulu
     {zun} : Zuni
	 eq Zun~i

SEE ALSO
     I18N::LangTags and its "See Also" section.

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
     Copyright (c) 2001+ Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.

     You can redistribute and/or modify this document under the
     same terms as Perl itself.

     This document is provided in the hope that it will be use-
     ful, but without any warranty; without even the implied war-
     ranty of accuracy, authoritativeness, completeness, merchan-
     tability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

     Email any corrections or questions to me.

AUTHOR
     Sean M. Burke, sburke@cpan.org

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