Hebrew Language Code

Language Codes of Hebrew

All world languages have unique language codes. Language codes are not case sensitive. Language codes of Hebrew include: ISO codes, Glottocodes and linguasphere. The Hebrew language codes are useful for shorthand designation for indicating this language.

• The linguasphere of Hebrew language code: 12-AAB-a.

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What is Hebrew Language Code?

The code that assigns short alphabetic or numeric identifier for language is called Hebrew language code. Languages are designated by a two letter code and three letter code. The Hebrew language code consists of ISO 639 1, ISO 639 2, ISO 639 3, Glottocode and Linguasphere. The Language codes are the codes for representation of names of languages.

ISO Language Codes

The ISO Language codes define abbreviations for languages. The ISO 639 is International Organization Standard for language codes which are used to establish internationally recognized codes for representation of languages. ISO Hebrew Language codes may be two letter codes or three letter codes. The ISO language codes were approved in 1967. ISO Hebrew Language codes are : ISO 639-1 code, ISO 639-2 code and ISO-3 code. ISO 639-2 is alpha-3 code and ISO 639-1 is the alpha-2 code. The ISO 639-2 code is divided into Bibliographic(B) and Terminological(T) codes which are denoted as ISO 639-2/B and ISO 639-2/T.
ISO Hebrew Language codes are:

• ISO 639-1: he
• ISO 639-2/T: heb
• ISO 639-2/B: heb
• ISO 639-3: heb

Codes for various languages can be found on Hebrew vs Korean, Hebrew vs Japanese,Hebrew vs French and Hebrew vs Spanish.

GlottoCode

Glottocode is one of codes which comes under Hebrew language codes. The bibliographic database of the world’s lesser-known languages is called Glottolog.

• The Glottocode of Hebrew language: hebr1246