Vocabulary for HumanLanguage

  

Description:

Assigned OID:           2.16.840.1.113883.2.1.3.2.4.17.70

A language used by human beings. It includes languages that use any of the senses, e.g. sight and touch as well as sound.  It is based on the ISO 639-1 two character language codes, plus five extensions required by NPfIT.  These make use of the area reserved by ISO 639 for local use and include a digit to distinguish them from any current ISO 639-1 codes.

 

 

Values:

Version:

02

Date:

13th February 2004

 


Code

Description

Note

Any code listed in ISO 639-1

The rubric associated with the ISO 639-1 code

This list grows slowly over time.

q1

Braille

For people who are unable to see or hear

q2

American Sign Language

 

q3

Australian.Sign Language

 

q4

British Sign Language

 

q5

Makaton

Devised for children and adults with a variety of communication and learning disabilities.