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Ten-code. Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by US public safety officials and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
This table lists all two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage, and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Entries in the Scope column distinguish: The Type column distinguishes: Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence.
ISO 639 is a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) concerned with representation of languages and language groups.It currently consists of four sets (1-3, 5) of code, named after each part which formerly described respective set (part 4 was guidelines without its own coding system); a part 6 was published but withdrawn.
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.
There are 183 two-letter codes registered as of June 2021. See: List of ISO 639 language codes. en; es – Spanish; ISO 639‑2: Three-letter system of 464 codes. See: List of ISO 639-2 codes. eng – three-letter code; enm – Middle English, c. 1100–1500; ang – Old English, c. 450–1100; cpe – other English-based creoles and pidgins ...
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, [ 1][ 2] allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. [ 3] It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation . Like the orthography of most world languages, English orthography has a broad ...
ISO 639-1. ISO 639-1:2002, Codes for the representation of names of languages—Part 1: Alpha-2 code, is the first part of the ISO 639 series of international standards for language codes. Part 1 covers the registration of "set 1" two-letter codes. There are 183 two-letter codes registered as of June 2021.
IETF language tag. An IETF BCP 47 language tag is a standardized code that is used to identify human languages on the Internet. [ 1] The tag structure has been standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [ 1] in Best Current Practice (BCP) 47; [ 1] the subtags are maintained by the IANA Language Subtag Registry. [ 2][ 3][ 4]