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[questions/qa-choosing-language-tags] Name of a language in the IANA Language Subtag Registry #514

Open xfq opened 1 year ago

xfq commented 1 year ago

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-choosing-language-tags#subtagregistry

To find a primary-language subtag, search the page for the name of that language.

Maybe it's obvious to some, but I think it's worth mentioning here that it's the language name in English, not in the native tongue.

aphillips commented 1 year ago

Actually, sometimes both are present (but rarely), but this is a good callout. There are details later about e.g. validating the choice using SIL Ethnologue and the like.