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[David Krings]

Gary Mort wrote:
> Google ISO and country codes, there is a standard set of country to 
> country code mappings, along with a standard set of language to language 
> code mappings.

After some extensive googling I found that the ISO codes are crap omitting 
about 80% of the langauges spoken in the world. That is why SIL created a new 
list, which is obviously way larger and uses three letter codes. Both lists 
are published and free to use (as far as I can tell), but both fail to list 
the languages in their native names. So for someone who doesn't speak English 
these lists are useless. In any case, the complete list is available here: 
http://www.ethnologue.com/codes/

I guess I keep on searching...

David