uw-languages-rcl

A React Component Library for Languages

The source information will be from a JSON file langnames.json here. This is an array of objects, one per language.

Here is an example:

{
"pk": 7501,
"ang": "Zhuang, Zuojiang",
"lr": "Asia",
"gw": false,
"hc": "CN",
"ln": "\u5de6\u6c5f",
"lc": "zzj",
"ld": "ltr",
"alt": [
    "Ken Tho",
    "Longyin",
    "Longzhou",
    "Pho Thai",
    "Pu Tho",
    "Southern Zhuang",
    "Zhuangyu nanbu fangyan Zuojiang tuyu",
    "Nung Chao"
],
"cc": ["CN"]
}

The package essentially provide a custom React Hook which returns state and actions (a small set of functions to use for language data).

The code in the demos folder are examples of using the custom hook.

General Language Information

The Library of Congress has a list of language names with both two and three character codes (ISO 639-1 and 639-2, respectively). Link: https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php

The site https://iso639-3.sil.org/ has a link to download a number of language tables in TSV format (easy to import into a spreadsheet).

Direct link to download the tables: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_tables/download_tables

Of the ones available, this one combines common useful info: https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab