"Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."  Genesis 11:9.

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There is an ISO 639-2 list of language codes at http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php.

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