Re: language tags

David Herron writes:

> Funny thing is my linguistics professors at college claimed there
> were somewhere around 5,000 languages spoken.  I suppose many of them
> don't have the gumption to register with ISO however.
>
> 5,000 languages won't fit into a 26*26 size namespace. (26*26 == 676)
There is a new revision of ISO 639 underway which will have 3-letter
codes, and be more extensive.

Keld