CHAT: Call for help

I would appreciate some help from members of the Conlang list.  At the
end of this message is a list of 225 language-country pairs, where
the language is an "official or national" language of the country.
For example, French is an official language of Cameroon, and so is
English, and they both appear in the list below.  English is not an
official language in the U.S., but it is clearly the national language
and so also appears below.  Spanish also appears because it is official
in New Mexico, a sovereign state of the U.S.

Languages that are official in only one country are omitted.  Finnish is
official in Finland, but nowhere else, so it is omitted; Swedish appears
because it is official in both Finland and Sweden.  As a result, only 27
languages appear:  Arabic(22), Bengali(3), Chamorro(2), Croatian(2),
Danish(2), Dutch(5), English(76), French(39), German(7), Greek(2),
Hungarian(2), Italian(5), Korean(2), Lingala(2), Malay(3), Mandarin
Chinese(3), Portuguese(7), Serbian(2), Sindhi(2), Spanish(22), Swahili(2),
Swati(2), Swedish(2), Tamil(2), Tswana(2), Turkish(3), Urdu(2).

What I would like is information about errors and omissions.
Especially important are language/country pairs that shouldn't appear.
Also important is any language that is official in more than one country
but doesn't appear.  Missing pairs are less important but I still want
to know about any you find.

I know some of the countries aren't really countries: I'm using the
ISO list, which is meant to be convenient, not authoritative.

Anyway, could you all please take a look and email me any problems or errors
you find?  (Make it private mail to mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com)
I really appreciate it.

Thanks.

Column 1 is an RFC 3066 code; column 2 is a language name; column 3
is a country name.  Plus signs represent embedded spaces.  If anyone
would prefer a list sorted by country and can't easily do it themselves,
I can supply one.

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ar-AE Arabic United+Arab+Emirates
ar-BH Arabic Bahrain
ar-DZ Arabic Algeria
ar-EG Arabic Egypt
ar-IL Arabic Israel
ar-IQ Arabic Iraq
ar-JO Arabic Jordan
ar-KW Arabic Kuwait
ar-LB Arabic Lebanon
ar-LY Arabic Libya
ar-MA Arabic Morocco
ar-MR Arabic Mauritania
ar-OM Arabic Oman
ar-PS Arabic Palestinian+West+Bank+and+Ga
ar-QA Arabic Qatar
ar-SA Arabic Saudi+Arabia
ar-SD Arabic Sudan
ar-SO Arabic Somalia
ar-SY Arabic Syria
ar-TD Arabic Chad
ar-TN Arabic Tunisia
ar-YE Arabic Yemen
bn-BD Bengali Bangladesh
bn-IN Bengali India
bn-SG Bengali Singapore
ch-GU Chamorro Guam
ch-MP Chamorro Northern+Mariana+Islands
da-DK Danish Denmark
da-GL Danish Greenland
de-AT German Austria
de-BE German Belgium
de-CH German Switzerland
de-DE German Germany
de-DK German Denmark
de-LI German Liechtenstein
de-LU German Luxembourg
el-CY Greek Cyprus
el-GR Greek Greece
en-AG English Antigua+and+Barbuda
en-AI English Anguilla
en-AS English American+Samoa
en-AU English Australia
en-BB English Barbados
en-BM English Bermuda
en-BN English Brunei
en-BS English Bahamas
en-BW English Botswana
en-BZ English Belize
en-CA English Canada
en-CK English Cook+Islands
en-CM English Cameroon
en-DM English Dominica
en-ER English Eritrea
en-ET English Ethiopia
en-FJ English Fiji
en-FK English Falkland+Islands
en-FM English Micronesia
en-GB English United+Kingdom
en-GD English Grenada
en-GH English Ghana
en-GI English Gibraltar
en-GM English Gambia
en-GU English Guam
en-GY English Guyana
en-IE English Ireland
en-IL English Israel
en-IO English British+Indian+Ocean+Territ
en-JM English Jamaica
en-KE English Kenya
en-KI English Kiribati
en-KN English St.+Kitts-Nevis
en-KY English Cayman+Islands
en-LC English St.+Lucia
en-LR English Liberia
en-LS English Lesotho
en-MP English Northern+Mariana+Islands
en-MS English Montserrat
en-MT English Malta
en-MU English Mauritius
en-MW English Malawi
en-NA English Namibia
en-NF English Norfolk+Island
en-NG English Nigeria
en-NR English Nauru
en-NU English Niue
en-NZ English New+Zealand
en-PG English Papua+New+Guinea
en-PH English Philippines
en-PK English Pakistan
en-PN English Pitcairn
en-PR English Puerto+Rico
en-PW English Palau
en-RW English Rwanda
en-SB English Solomon+Islands
en-SC English Seychelles
en-SG English Singapore
en-SH English St.+Helena
en-SL English Sierra+Leone
en-SO English Somalia
en-SZ English Swaziland
en-TC English Turks+and+Caicos+Islands
en-TK English Tokelau
en-TO English Tonga
en-TT English Trinidad+and+Tobago
en-UG English Uganda
en-US English USA
en-VC English St.+Vincent+and+the+Grenadi
en-VG English British+Virgin+Islands
en-VI English U.S.+Virgin+Islands
en-VU English Vanuatu
en-WS English Western+Samoa
en-ZA English South+Africa
en-ZM English Zambia
en-ZW English Zimbabwe
es-AR Spanish Argentina
es-BO Spanish Bolivia
es-CL Spanish Chile
es-CO Spanish Colombia
es-CR Spanish Costa+Rica
es-CU Spanish Cuba
es-DO Spanish Dominican+Republic
es-EC Spanish Ecuador
es-ES Spanish Spain
es-GQ Spanish Equatorial+Guinea
es-GT Spanish Guatemala
es-HN Spanish Honduras
es-MX Spanish Mexico
es-NI Spanish Nicaragua
es-PA Spanish Panama
es-PE Spanish Peru
es-PR Spanish Puerto+Rico
es-PY Spanish Paraguay
es-SV Spanish El+Salvador
es-US Spanish USA
es-UY Spanish Uruguay
es-VE Spanish Venezuela
fr-AD French Andorra
fr-BE French Belgium
fr-BF French Burkina+Faso
fr-BI French Burundi
fr-BJ French Benin
fr-CA French Canada
fr-CD French Democratic+Republic+of+Congo
fr-CF French Central+African+Republic
fr-CG French Congo
fr-CH French Switzerland
fr-CI French Cote+d'Ivoire
fr-CM French Cameroon
fr-DJ French Djibouti
fr-FR French France
fr-GA French Gabon
fr-GB French United+Kingdom
fr-GF French French+Guiana
fr-GN French Guinea
fr-GP French Guadeloupe
fr-HT French Haiti
fr-IT French Italy
fr-KM French Comoros+Islands
fr-LB French Lebanon
fr-LU French Luxembourg
fr-MC French Monaco
fr-MG French Madagascar
fr-ML French Mali
fr-MQ French Martinique
fr-NC French New+Caledonia
fr-PF French French+Polynesia
fr-PM French St.+Pierre+and+Miquelon
fr-RE French Reunion
fr-RW French Rwanda
fr-SC French Seychelles
fr-TD French Chad
fr-TG French Togo
fr-VU French Vanuatu
fr-WF French Wallis+and+Futuna
fr-YT French Mayotte
hr-BA Croatian Bosnia-Herzegovina
hr-HR Croatian Croatia
hu-HU Hungarian Hungary
hu-SI Hungarian Slovenia
it-CH Italian Switzerland
it-HR Italian Croatia
it-IT Italian Italy
it-SI Italian Slovenia
it-SM Italian San+Marino
ko-KP Korean Korea,+North
ko-KR Korean Korea,+South
ln-CD Lingala Democratic+Republic+of+Cong
ln-CG Lingala Congo
ms-BN Malay Brunei
ms-MY Malay Malaysia
ms-SG Malay Singapore
nl-AN Dutch Netherlands+Antilles
nl-AW Dutch Aruba
nl-BE Dutch Belgium
nl-NL Dutch Netherlands
nl-SR Dutch Suriname
pt-AO Portuguese Angola
pt-BR Portuguese Brazil
pt-CV Portuguese Cape+Verde+Islands
pt-GW Portuguese Guinea-Bissau
pt-MZ Portuguese Mozambique
pt-PT Portuguese Portugal
pt-ST Portuguese São+Tomé+e+Principe
sd-IN Sindhi India
sd-PK Sindhi Pakistan
sr-BA Serbian Bosnia-Herzegovina
sr-YU Serbian Yugoslavia
ss-SZ Swati Swaziland
ss-ZA Swati South+Africa
sv-FI Swedish Finland
sv-SE Swedish Sweden
sw-KE Swahili Kenya
sw-TZ Swahili Tanzania
ta-IN Tamil India
ta-SG Tamil Singapore
tn-BW Tswana Botswana
tn-ZA Tswana South+Africa
tr-BG Turkish Bulgaria
tr-CY Turkish Cyprus
tr-TR Turkish Turkey
ur-IN Urdu India
ur-PK Urdu Pakistan
zh-CN Mandarin+Chinese China
zh-SG Mandarin+Chinese Singapore
zh-TW Mandarin+Chinese Taiwan
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--
John Cowan <jcowan@...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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