Lesser kestrel: New WIKI template pages at WUaS: LANGUAGE TEMPLATE ... and ... NATION STATE TEMPLATE, Some "Language Code" standardization sources, all potentially helpful for unfolding good design at Wikidata (and WUaS), Does anyone know how ISO-639-6, for example, allows for, or encodes, invented, "dead," animal/species' communication (or even computer languages as "human languages") languages?, New extinct language at WUaS - "Cromarty dialect of Scots language"

New WIKI template pages at WUaS:

LANGUAGE TEMPLATE ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE


NATION STATE TEMPLATE ...
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/NATION_STATE_TEMPLATE


... in addition to the now old SUBJECT TEMPLATE ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE


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Great, Purodha, GerM and Wikidatans,

I've gathered together some "Language Code" standardization sources, all potentially helpful for unfolding good design at Wikidata (and WUaS), here ...


Language Code

Language code:

Language status: e.g. living, extinct, invented, etc.


BCP 47 - Tags for Identifying Languages - IETF Tools
http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47

Ethnologue
(Ethnologue now uses ISO 639 codes)
http://www.ethnologue.com/browse/codes

ISO 639
(International Organization for Standardization)
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/language_codes.htm

ISO-639-3
(International Organization for Standardization)
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp

ISO-639-6
(This aims to include any and all language variants and it is not that interested in using the political term for what any language has become).
http://www.geolang.com/iso639-6/

Language Subtag Lookup
(A nice tool maintained by W3C corroborator Richard Ishida to look up current IANA defined language tags, and their constituents (subtags)).
http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/ .

I've also added these initially to some CC wiki WUaS "Language" pages (see below), which 7,106+ MIT OCW-centric wiki-school plans will allow for many more language additions with time.

As one Wikidata focus, probably already explored, it seems to make sense to engage the ISO 639 codes and standards, since ISO-639-3 and ISO-639-6 seem to address some of both of your concerns.

Does anyone know how ISO-639-6, for example, allows for, or encodes, invented, "dead," animal/species' communication (or even computer languages as "human languages") languages?

Cheers,
Scott



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New, extinct language at WUaS:

Cromarty dialect of Scots language
(which is not Scottish Gaelic)

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cromarty_dialect_of_Scots_language


See, too, related news' article -

Borland, Jane. 2012. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212466/Final-word-Scottish-Cromarty-dialect-silenced-forever-native-speaker-dies-aged-92.html Final word from Cromarty: Scottish Black Isle dialect silenced forever as last native speaker dies aged 92 - Bobby Hogg was the last person still fluent in the fisherfolk dialect - His younger brother Gordon had been the second speaker of the Cromarty language until he passed away last year aged 86]. October 3. London, UK: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212466/Final-word-Scottish-Cromarty-dialect-silenced-forever-native-speaker-dies-aged-92.html.


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Scots language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scots_language

Scottish Gaelic language -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language


and again,

Cromarty dialect of Scots language
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Cromarty_dialect_of_Scots_language

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