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Chinese and Japanese Language Codes


Japanese and Chinese language codes


Code

ISO 639 1
zh   
ja   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho   
jpn   

ISO 639 2/B
chi   
jpn   

ISO 639 3
zho   
jpn   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
sini1245   
nucl1643   

Linguasphere
79-AAA   
45-CAA-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Chinese and Japanese ISO Language Codes

ISO language codes are designed to represent most of the languages in the world. Chinese and Japanese ISO language codes consists of ISO 639 1, ISO 639 2, ISO 639 3 codes. ISO 639 1 is the two letter code, while ISO 639 2 and ISO 639 3 are three letter codes.

    Chinese ISO Codes:
  • ISO 639 1 code: zh
  • ISO 639 2/T code: zho
  • ISO 639 2/B code: chi
  • ISO 639 3 code: zho
    Japanese ISO Codes:
  • ISO 639 1 code: ja
  • ISO 639 2/T code: jpn
  • ISO 639 2/B code: jpn
  • ISO 639 3 code: jpn

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Chinese vs Japanese Glottocodes

You will find Chinese vs Japanese glottocodes under the Chinese and Japanese language codes. Chinese glottocode is sini1245 and Japanese glottocode is nucl1643. Along with Chinese and Japanese language codes, you can also check how many people speak these languages on Chinese vs Japanese.

More on Chinese and Japanese Language Codes

Explore more on Chinese and Japanese language codes to understand more about these languages. Chinese and Japanese language codes are unique and are used in wide range of applications. The language codes are mainly used in the computer and information systems. The ISO codes are set of international standards that are short unique representation for language names.

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