Tamil Language Code

Tamil

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1 Code

1.1 ISO 639 1

1.2 ISO 639 2

1.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

tam

1.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

tam

1.3 ISO 639 3

tam

1.4 ISO 639 6

tam

1.5 Glottocode

tami1289, oldt1248

1.6 Linguasphere

tami1289

1.7 Types of Language

1.7.1 Language Type

Living

1.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

1.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

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Language Codes of Tamil

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

The linguasphere of Tamil language code: tami1289.

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What is Tamil Language Code?

The code that assigns short alphabetic or numeric identifier for language is called Tamil language code. Languages are designated by a two letter code and three letter code. The Tamil 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.

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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 Tamil Language codes may be two letter codes or three letter codes. The ISO language codes were approved in 1967. ISO Tamil 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 Tamil Language codes are:

ISO 639-1: ta
ISO 639-2/T: tam
ISO 639-2/B: tam
ISO 639-3: tam

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

GlottoCode

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