Dear Ms Hayes
You can start with

        http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639-2a.html

to get the list of language codes. It seems they are still draft. My understanding is that you can have
multiple languges by adding multiple codes, separated by a space, as memory serves.

Hope this helps

> The Application Guidelines (pp. 47-48) recommend using the "3-letter code"
> from ISO 639-2 for the LANGMATERIAL attribute to the tag <archdesc> to
> indicate the language of the collection materials.
>
> 1) If you have multiple languages in a collection, do you indicate the
> *primary* language only? I assume there is no way to represent more than one
> language here.
>
> 2) Where does one find this list of 3-letter codes?? I've checked all the
> usual resources and find ISO 639 easily, which has 2-letter codes for
> languages. The Guidelines don't have any further information on this that I
> can find.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
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> Katherine A. Hayes, Assistant Archivist
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