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diff --git a/python/python3-language-data/README b/python/python3-language-data/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..01ae3400bd --- /dev/null +++ b/python/python3-language-data/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +language-data is a supplement to the langcodes module for +working with standardized codes for human languages. It stores +the more bulky and hard-to-index data about languages, particularly +what they are named in various languages. + +For example, this stores the data that tell you that +the code "en" means "English" in English, or that +"francés" is the Spanish (es) name for French (fr). + +The functions and test cases for working with this data are +in langcodes, because working with the data correctly requires +parsing language codes. + +The data included in this package is: + +* The names of various languages, in various languages +* The estimated population that speaks each language +* The estimated population that writes each language + +These are all extracted from the Unicode CLDR data package,version 40 +plus a few additional language names that fill in gaps in CLDR. |