iso-639-1 v3.1.3

ISO-639-1

Simple interface for ISO-639-1 language codes

Installation

npm install iso-639-1

Usage

Node.js

const ISO6391 = require('iso-639-1');
console.log(ISO6391.getName('en')); // 'English'

ES Module

import ISO6391 from 'iso-639-1';
console.log(ISO6391.getName('en')); // 'English'

Browsers

HTML

<script type="text/javascript" src="./node_modules/iso-639-1/build/index.js"></script>

Visit global variable ISO6391 in js

console.log(ISO6391.getName('en')); // 'English'

Methods

getName(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {string}

Lookup language english name by code

getAllNames()

• @return {array}

Get array of all language english names

getNativeName(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {string}

Lookup language native name by code

getAllNativeNames()

• @return {array}

Get array of all language native names

getCode(name)

• @param name {string}
• @return {string}

Lookup code by english name or native name

getAllCodes()

• @return {array}

Get array of all codes

validate(code)

• @param code {string}
• @return {boolean}

Check whether the given code is in the list of ISO-639-1

getLanguages(codes)

• @param codes {array}
• @return {array}

Get the array of the language objects by the given codes

Example

const ISO6391 = require('iso-639-1')

console.log(ISO6391.getName('zh')) // 'Chinese'
console.log(ISO6391.getNativeName('zh')) // '中文'

console.log(ISO6391.getAllNames()) // ['Afar','Abkhaz', ... ,'Zulu']
console.log(ISO6391.getAllNativeNames()) //['Afaraf','аҧсуа бызшәа', ... ,'isiZulu' ]

console.log(ISO6391.getCode('Chinese')) // 'zh'
console.log(ISO6391.getCode('中文')) // 'zh'

console.log(ISO6391.getAllCodes()) //['aa','ab',...,'zu']

console.log(ISO6391.validate('en')) // true
console.log(ISO6391.validate('xx')) // false

console.log(ISO6391.getLanguages(['en', 'zh']))
// [{code:'en',name:'English',nativeName:'English'},{code:'zh',name:'Chinese',nativeName:'中文'}]