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ISO 639-2 Is a 3-letters abbreviation standard for language names, like 'heb', 'eng' and 'spa' for Hebrew, English and Spanish.

ISO 639-2 Is a part of the ISO-639 standard a for language names.

The 639-2 part refers to 3-letters abbreviation standard, as opposed to 639-1 which refers to 2-letters abbreviations.

Examples:

  • heb: Hebrew
  • spa: Spanish
  • eng: English

The list of ISO-639-2 codes can be found on Wikipedia.

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