Afrikaans Language Code

Language Codes of Afrikaans

All world languages have unique language codes. Language codes are not case sensitive. Language codes of Afrikaans include: ISO codes, Glottocodes and linguasphere. The Afrikaans language codes are useful for shorthand designation for indicating this language.

• The linguasphere of Afrikaans language code: 52-ACB-ba.

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What is Afrikaans Language Code?

The code that assigns short alphabetic or numeric identifier for language is called Afrikaans language code. Languages are designated by a two letter code and three letter code. The Afrikaans language code consists of ISO 639 1, ISO 639 2, ISO 639 3, Glottocode and Linguasphere. The Language codes are the codes for representation of names of languages.

ISO Language Codes

The ISO Language codes define abbreviations for languages. The ISO 639 is International Organization Standard for language codes which are used to establish internationally recognized codes for representation of languages. ISO Afrikaans Language codes may be two letter codes or three letter codes. The ISO language codes were approved in 1967. ISO Afrikaans Language codes are : ISO 639-1 code, ISO 639-2 code and ISO-3 code. ISO 639-2 is alpha-3 code and ISO 639-1 is the alpha-2 code. The ISO 639-2 code is divided into Bibliographic(B) and Terminological(T) codes which are denoted as ISO 639-2/B and ISO 639-2/T.
ISO Afrikaans Language codes are:

• ISO 639-1: af
• ISO 639-2/T: afr
• ISO 639-2/B: afr
• ISO 639-3: afr

Codes for various languages can be found on Afrikaans vs Korean, Afrikaans vs Japanese,Afrikaans vs French and Afrikaans vs Spanish.

GlottoCode

Glottocode is one of codes which comes under Afrikaans language codes. The bibliographic database of the world’s lesser-known languages is called Glottolog.

• The Glottocode of Afrikaans language: afri1274