Languages Open Base Data

How To Use

npm install @openbasedata/languages

data.json contains language metadata in English and native representation, etc.

Other localized translations are split into /translations/<locale>.json (one language per file) to keep the main dataset smaller.

Data Structure

[
  {
    "code": "zh",
    "name": "Chinese",
    "nativeName": "中文",
    "population": 0
  }
]

| Field | Type | Required | Description | | ------------ | -------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | | code | string | Yes | ISO 639-1 language code (2 lowercase letters), e.g. zh. | | name | string | Yes | English language name. | | nativeName | string | Yes | Native/self language name. | | population | number | Yes | Estimated speaker population (0 when no estimate exists). |

Translations

Translations are stored in /translations, one file per locale (for example: /translations/zh-Hans.json, /translations/fr.json). English is stored directly in data.json.

Each translation file has this structure:

{
  "zh": {
    "name": "Chinese"
  }
}

Changelog

Generate the changelog from git history with:

npm run changelog

The generated output is written to /CHANGELOG.md.