naiTechnical information about ISO 639 language code nai
The table below provides technical details for the North American Indian language, designated by the nai code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
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| Standard | |
| Name | North American Indian |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Key facts | The ISO code “nai” is a collective bibliographic code that groups hundreds of distinct Indigenous languages of North AmericaBecause it is not a single language, there is no unified writing system, pronunciation, or set of dialectsIn modern linguistic description each language (e.g., Navajo – nav, Mohawk – moh) is assigned its own ISO 639-3 code insteadThe collective code survives mainly in library cataloguing and legacy databasesMutual intelligibility between the languages grouped under “nai” is generally nonexistent. |
| Sample phrase | No single “native script” is possible, because ISO 639 code “nai” covers many unrelated North American Indigenous languages rather than one language. |
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The North American Indian language, identified by the code nai, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Geographic' by its type.
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