IETF language tag

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Name	IETF language tag
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Elements of File Formats IETF language tag ; ; ;

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An IETF language tag is a standard identifier for a human language or dialect. It is a short string of text; an example is "en-US".

A language tag consists of a sequence of hyphen-separated subtags, which define and refine the language.

Registration of subtags is handled by IANA. Language tags are no longer registered directly.

[TODO: What exactly is the relationship between this and ISO 639?]

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-An IETF '''language tag''' is a standard identifier for a human language or language variant. It is a short string of text; an example is "en-US".
+An IETF '''language tag''' is a standard identifier for a human language or dialect. It is a short string of text; an example is "en-US".
 A language tag consists of a sequence of hyphen-separated ''subtags'', which define and refine the language.
 Registration of subtags is handled by [https://www.iana.org/ IANA]. Language ''tags'' are no longer registered directly.
+''[TODO: What exactly is the relationship between this and ISO 639?]''
 == Specifications ==
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 * RFC 3066: Tags for the Identification of Languages
 * RFC 4646: Tags for Identifying Languages
+== See also ==
+* [[ISO 3166-1 country code]]
 == Links ==