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The 2007 edition of the MARC Code List for Languages is now available from the Library of Congress. This new publication contains a list of languages and their associated three-character alphabetic codes that allow for the designation of the language or languages in MARC records. References from variant forms and specific language names assigned to group codes are included. This edition contains 484 discrete codes, of which 55 are used for groups of languages.
The list includes all valid codes and code assignments as of September 2007 and supersedes the 2003 edition of the MARC Code List for Languages. There are 27 code additions and 12 changed code captions in this edition.
MARC Code List for Languages (ISBN 978-0-8444-1163-7) is available for $20 (North America) and $ 22 (outside North America) from:
MARC 21 information, including future additions to the MARC Code List for Languages, may be found at: www.loc.gov/marc.
An XML version of the 2007 edition of the MARC Code List for Languages is available for use in applications at: www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/languages.xml.
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