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Language code: sai

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sai

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The table below provides technical details for the South American Indian languages language, designated by the sai code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

sai

Name

South American Indian languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Key facts
The ISO code "sai" is a collective code, not one specific languageIt bundles hundreds of distinct Indigenous languages spoken throughout South AmericaThe grouped languages span many unrelated families such as Quechuan, Tupian, Arawakan, Cariban, Pano-Tacanan and ChibchanBecause it is a collective, there is no single writing system, standard greeting or unified set of dialectsLinguists study and document each constituent language separately rather than under the umbrella code.
Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The South American Indian languages language, identified by the code sai, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Geographic' by its type.

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