Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: zho
| Identifier: | zho |
| Name: | Chinese |
| Status: | Active |
| Code sets: | 639-2/T and 639-3 |
| Equivalents: |
639-1: zh 639-2/B: chi |
| Scope: | Macrolanguage |
| Type: | Living |
The individual languages within this macrolanguage are:
- Gan Chinese [gan]
- Hakka Chinese [hak]
- Huizhou Chinese [czh]
- Jinyu Chinese [cjy]
- Literary Chinese [lzh]
- Mandarin Chinese [cmn]
- Min Bei Chinese [mnp]
- Min Dong Chinese [cdo]
- Min Nan Chinese [nan]
- Min Zhong Chinese [czo]
- Pu-Xian Chinese [cpx]
- Wu Chinese [wuu]
- Xiang Chinese [hsn]
- Yue Chinese [yue]
Code change history
| Change request number: | 2008-089 |
| Date change became effective: | 2009-01-16 |
| Type of change: | Update |
| Changed attribute: | Membership |
| New value: | add Literary Chinese [lzh] (proposed new code element) to macrolanguage membership |