Frequently asked questions on Enterprise’s language and locale standards.
We support 250 languages and locales.
We use ISO 639. We prefer the 2-character codes from ISO 639-1 and then fallback to the 3+ character codes in ISO 639-2, and ISO 639-3 when needed.
We use ISO 3166. For the most part, we have only used the 2 character codes from ISO 3166-1. There are a small number of cases that have deviated. An example is es-419 for Latin America which comes from UN M.49 region codes.
Not at this time. Because each locale is different, Enterprise has avoided creating multiple codes for the same language.
Not at this time.
In some cases, yes; however, because the code does not apply to a country, it does not follow the standard 2 letter language country format (e.g. US).
e.g. The locale for "Spanish - Latin America" (es-419) is non-standard because it does not use a country code.
Not at this time.
To see if a new language pair (i.e. language code + country code) can be supported, please send an email to support@lingotek.com.