Language code: la
Technical information about ISO 639 language code la
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The table below provides technical details for the Latin language, designated by the la code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Latin Native Latine |
| Family | Italic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Old (Archaic) LatinClassical LatinVulgar LatinLate LatinEcclesiastical (Church) Latin |
| Related languages | ItalianSpanishFrenchPortugueseRomanian |
| Key facts | Latin is the direct ancestor of all modern Romance languagesIt supplied more than half of modern medical and botanical terminologyThe standard 26-letter English alphabet descends from the Latin scriptFor centuries it served as the scholarly lingua franca of EuropeIts inflectional system uses six grammatical cases and three genders. |
| Sample phrase | Salve, quid agis? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
Latin belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Italic subgroup. It is the primary official language of the Vatican and is written using the Latin alphabet. In the Vatican, Latin serves as the official working language, used particularly in education, liturgical services, and the drafting of official documents.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Latin speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
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- Glossary
- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- FAQ
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ