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Language code: hai

Technical information about ISO 639 language code hai

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The table below provides technical details for the Haida language, designated by the hai code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

hai

Name

Haida

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern HaidaSouthern Haida
Key facts
Haida is generally classified as a language isolateOnly about two-to-three dozen fluent speakers remain, most of them elders on Haida Gwaii and Prince of Wales IslandThe sound system includes many ejective and uvular consonants, producing a distinctive acoustic profileModern writing uses a Latin-based orthography with diacritics and apostrophes to mark glottalizationTraditional Haida oral literature is renowned for complex parallelism and extensive use of metaphor.
Sample phrase

Gudáng.uu, sáng aad kil lláa?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Haida language, identified by the code hai, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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