Scopes and Types
Scopes:
- Individual languages
- Macrolanguages
- Collections of languages
- Dialects
- Reserved for local use
- Special situations
Types (for individual languages):
- Living languages
- Extinct languages
- Ancient languages
- Historic languages
- Constructed languages
Read more about this topic: ISO 639-2
Famous quotes containing the word types:
“He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a goony bird at mating time.”
—Michael Blankfort. Lewis Milestone. Johnson (Reginald Gardner)