ISO 639-3:2007 言語の名前を表現するためのコード—パート3：言語を包括的にカバーするためのAlpha-3コード | ページ 6

3.1

code

data transformed or represented in different forms according to a pre-established set of rules

3.2

code element

individual entry in a code table

3.3

language identifier

language symbol

symbol that uniquely identifies a particular language

Note 1 to entry: In the language code in this part of ISO 639, each language identifier is composed of three letters.

Note 2 to entry: In this part of ISO 639, each language identifier represents the various language names used to designate a particular language.

3.4

name

reference name

appellation

linguistic expression used to designate an individual concept

Note 1 to entry: In this part of ISO 639, a language name is used to designate the concept of a particular language.

Note 2 to entry: In this part of ISO 639, names used to designate a language may be expressions taken from one or more specified source languages, such as English or French. It is not guaranteed, however, that a complete set of names from any particular language will be provided, or that the source language for any name will be indicated.

Note 3 to entry: In the initial code table for this part of ISO 639, the names used for many languages will be names used in Ethnologue^[1] . In subsequent maintenance of this part of ISO 639, these names may be revised.

Note 4 to entry: In this part of ISO 639, a language name is considered normative insofar as it designates a particular language. The actual form of a name is not immutable.

Note 5 to entry: In this part of ISO 639, reference names may include parenthetic information not generally used to designate a given language in order to differentiate between distinct languages that have identical names. See 4.3.

3.5

language code element

code element (3.2) in a language code table

Note 1 to entry: In the language code table published by the Registration Authority of ISO 639-3 (see 4.5), each language code element consists of a language identifier and one or more language names.

3.6

scope

attribute of a language code element (3.5) that pertains to the breadth of language varieties to which it corresponds, and to the nature of the relationship between that language code element and other language code elements

Note 1 to entry: For the purposes of this part of ISO 639, language code elements have one of four scopes: individual language, macrolanguage, collection or special purpose. See 4.2.

3.7

individual language code element

language code element (3.5) with a scope (3.6) representing an individual language

Note 1 to entry: The language represented by an individual language code element is considered distinct from those represented by any other individual language code element; thus, there is no correspondence between different individual language code elements. The notion of individual language is explained further in 4.2.2.

3.8

macrolanguage code element

language code element (3.5) with a scope (3.6) representing multiple, closely-related individual languages that are deemed in some usage contexts to be a single language

Note 1 to entry: Every macrolanguage code element has a normative correspondence to the individual language code elements representing the individual languages encompassed by the macrolanguage. This normative relationship between macrolanguage code elements and individual language code elements is documented in the code tables included in this part of ISO 639. The notion of macrolanguage is explained further in 4.2.3.

3.9

collective language code element

language code element (3.5) with a scope (3.6) representing a group of individual languages that are not deemed to be one language in any usage context

Note 1 to entry: The language code in this part of ISO 639 does not include collective language code elements.