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Japanese and Chinese Language Codes


Chinese and Japanese language codes


Code

ISO 639 1
ja  
zh  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
jpn  
zho  

ISO 639 2/B
jpn  
chi  

ISO 639 3
jpn  
zho  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
nucl1643  
sini1245  

Linguasphere
45-CAA-a  
79-AAA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Japanese and Chinese ISO Language Codes

ISO language codes are designed to represent most of the languages in the world. Japanese and Chinese 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.

    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
    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

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Japanese vs Chinese Glottocodes

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

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Explore more on Japanese and Chinese language codes to understand more about these languages. Japanese and Chinese 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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