RE: ISO 15924 and ISO 639

From: Michael Maxwell (mmaxwell@casl.umd.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 08:15:15 CST

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Chan, Florence wrote:
> How can I find out which language a script code belongs to?
> For example, The script code "Hans" has a description of "Han
> (Simplified variant)". How can I tell this script is part of
> the "Chinese" language?

I don't know about the script codes, but one resources for scripts in general is www.omniglot.com/writing. It does not however list Han as a script.

Of course for many scripts, there are multiple languages that use that script.

Mike Maxwell
CASL/ U Md

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