language

A JavaScript library for handling:

• ISO 639 language codes.
• RFC 5646 language tags.

Importing this library

import { Language, lang, LanguageTag, langTag } from "https://esm.sh/gh/doga/language@1.1.0/mod.mjs";

Usage example

Print out language info for some language codes.

description = '''
Running this example is safe, it will not read or write anything to your filesystem.
'''

import{langTag,lang,LanguageTag,Language}from"https://esm.sh/gh/doga/language@1.1.0/mod.mjs";// Parse ISO 639 language codes.['en','fr','de','tr'].forEach(iso639_1=>{constlanguage=lang`${iso639_1}`;if(!language)return;console.group(`Language code: ${language}:`);console.info(`ISO 639-1: ${language.iso639_1}`);console.info(`ISO 639-2: ${language.iso639_2}`);console.info(`Name: ${language.name}`);console.info(`Native name: ${language.nativeName}`);console.info(`Family: ${language.family}`);console.info(`Wiki URL: ${language.wikiUrl}`);console.groupEnd();});// Parse RFC 5646 language tags.['en-CA','fr-FR','de-AT','tr'].forEach(tag=>{constlanguageTag=langTag`${tag}`;if(!languageTag)return;console.group(`Language tag: ${languageTag}`);console.group(`ISO 639 language info:`);console.info(`ISO 639-1: ${languageTag.code.iso639_1}`);console.info(`ISO 639-2: ${languageTag.code.iso639_2}`);console.info(`Name: ${languageTag.code.name}`);console.info(`Native name: ${languageTag.code.nativeName}`);console.info(`Family: ${languageTag.code.family}`);console.info(`Wiki URL: ${languageTag.code.wikiUrl}`);console.groupEnd();console.groupEnd();});

Sample output for the code above:

Language code: en:
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
Name: English
Native name: English
Family: Indo-European
Wiki URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
Language code: fr:
ISO 639-1: fr
ISO 639-2: fra
Name: French
Native name: français, langue française
Family: Indo-European
Wiki URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language
Language code: de:
ISO 639-1: de
ISO 639-2: deu
Name: German
Native name: Deutsch
Family: Indo-European
Wiki URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language
Language code: tr:
ISO 639-1: tr
ISO 639-2: tur
Name: Turkish
Native name: Türkçe
Family: Turkic
Wiki URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language
Language tag: en-CA
ISO 639 language info:
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
Name: English
Native name: English
Family: Indo-European
Wiki URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
Language tag: fr-FR
ISO 639 language info:
ISO 639-1: fr
ISO 639-2: fra
Name: French
Native name: français, langue française
Family: Indo-European
Wiki URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language
Language tag: de-AT
ISO 639 language info:
ISO 639-1: de
ISO 639-2: deu
Name: German
Native name: Deutsch
Family: Indo-European
Wiki URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language
Language tag: tr
ISO 639 language info:
ISO 639-1: tr
ISO 639-2: tur
Name: Turkish
Native name: Türkçe
Family: Turkic
Wiki URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language

Running the usage example

Run the usage example by typing this in your terminal (requires Deno+):

deno run --allow-net --allow-run --allow-env --allow-read jsr:@andrewbrey/mdrb@3.0.4 --dax=false --mode=isolated 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/doga/language/main/README.md'

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