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Appendix A Language Codes
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   The ISO 639 standard defines two-letter codes for many languages, and
three-letter codes for more rarely used languages.  All abbreviations
for languages used in the Translation Project should come from this
standard.

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* Usual Language Codes::        Two-letter ISO 639 language codes
* Rare Language Codes::         Three-letter ISO 639 language codes