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language-data is a supplement to the langcodes module for
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working with standardized codes for human languages. It stores
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the more bulky and hard-to-index data about languages, particularly
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what they are named in various languages.
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For example, this stores the data that tell you that
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the code "en" means "English" in English, or that
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"francés" is the Spanish (es) name for French (fr).
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The functions and test cases for working with this data are
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in langcodes, because working with the data correctly requires
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parsing language codes.
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The data included in this package is:
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* The names of various languages, in various languages
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* The estimated population that speaks each language
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* The estimated population that writes each language
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These are all extracted from the Unicode CLDR data package,version 40
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plus a few additional language names that fill in gaps in CLDR.
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