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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Linguasphere Observatory (511 words) |
 | In July 2001, the BSI (British Standards Institution) requested the Linguasphere Observatory to make a firm proposal for the establishment of a standardised alphanumeric coding system covering all the world's languages, based on existing and future codes of ISO 639 and correlated with the referential framework and relationship scale of the Linguasphere Register. |
| Linguasphere Mapbase of the World's Languages and Speech Communities and is currently being extended into southern Europe and western Asia, in collaboration with the Languages of the World unit of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Akademia Nauk). |
| A more detailed proposal will be prepared by the Linguasphere Observatory for the beginning of 2002, including the orderly extension of identification codes to all spoken and written languages, and the examination of procedures for combining language codes with codes for countries and for scripts. |
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