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  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
  "registry_version": "0.2.0",
  "updated": "2026-10-28",
  "maintainer": "Darkoza / OERSI Language Forge",
  "purpose": "Track language tags and scoped, sourced institutional official-language designations separately from translation readiness.",
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      "UN",
      "EU",
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    ],
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    "note": "Official status varies by jurisdiction and legal context. This catalog covers the UN six, EU 24, and the six named African Union languages; the AU protocol also includes any other African language, an open-ended category not enumerated here. It is not a complete global census of national, regional, indigenous, or sign-language status."
  },
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      "name": "BCP 47 / RFC 5646",
      "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5646/",
      "purpose": "Language-tag syntax and interoperability."
    },
    {
      "name": "ISO 639:2023",
      "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/74575.html",
      "purpose": "Language identifier principles and reference names."
    },
    {
      "name": "Unicode CLDR",
      "url": "https://cldr.unicode.org/",
      "purpose": "Locale data and internationalized formatting; not a legal official-status registry."
    }
  ],
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      "source_checked": "2026-10-28",
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        "zh-Hans",
        "en",
        "fr",
        "ru",
        "es"
      ]
    },
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      "id": "EU",
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      "source_url": "https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/languages_en",
      "source_checked": "2026-10-28",
      "language_codes": [
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        "hr",
        "cs",
        "da",
        "nl",
        "en",
        "et",
        "fi",
        "fr",
        "de",
        "el",
        "hu",
        "ga",
        "it",
        "lv",
        "lt",
        "mt",
        "pl",
        "pt",
        "ro",
        "sk",
        "sl",
        "es",
        "sv"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "AU",
      "name": "African Union",
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      "source_url": "https://opendata.pap.au.int/akn/aa-au/act/2000/constitutive-act/eng%402003-07-11",
      "source_checked": "2026-10-28",
      "language_codes": [
        "ar",
        "en",
        "fr",
        "pt",
        "es",
        "sw"
      ],
      "scope_note": "The legal text also says any other African language; this is an open-ended category not represented as a closed list."
    }
  ],
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    "project_locales_including_persian": 29,
    "glossary_concepts": 10,
    "glossary_term_candidates": 290,
    "human_reviewed_terms": 0
  },
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      "name_en": "Arabic",
      "name_native": "العربية",
      "direction": "rtl",
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        "UN",
        "AU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "bg",
      "language_code": "bg",
      "name_en": "Bulgarian",
      "name_native": "Български",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "hr",
      "language_code": "hr",
      "name_en": "Croatian",
      "name_native": "Hrvatski",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "cs",
      "language_code": "cs",
      "name_en": "Czech",
      "name_native": "Čeština",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "da",
      "language_code": "da",
      "name_en": "Danish",
      "name_native": "Dansk",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "nl",
      "language_code": "nl",
      "name_en": "Dutch",
      "name_native": "Nederlands",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "en-US",
      "language_code": "en",
      "name_en": "English",
      "name_native": "English",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "UN",
        "EU",
        "AU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "et",
      "language_code": "et",
      "name_en": "Estonian",
      "name_native": "Eesti",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "fi",
      "language_code": "fi",
      "name_en": "Finnish",
      "name_native": "Suomi",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "fr",
      "language_code": "fr",
      "name_en": "French",
      "name_native": "Français",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "UN",
        "EU",
        "AU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "de",
      "language_code": "de",
      "name_en": "German",
      "name_native": "Deutsch",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "el",
      "language_code": "el",
      "name_en": "Greek",
      "name_native": "Ελληνικά",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "hu",
      "language_code": "hu",
      "name_en": "Hungarian",
      "name_native": "Magyar",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "ga",
      "language_code": "ga",
      "name_en": "Irish",
      "name_native": "Gaeilge",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "it",
      "language_code": "it",
      "name_en": "Italian",
      "name_native": "Italiano",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "lv",
      "language_code": "lv",
      "name_en": "Latvian",
      "name_native": "Latviešu",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "lt",
      "language_code": "lt",
      "name_en": "Lithuanian",
      "name_native": "Lietuvių",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "mt",
      "language_code": "mt",
      "name_en": "Maltese",
      "name_native": "Malti",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "pl",
      "language_code": "pl",
      "name_en": "Polish",
      "name_native": "Polski",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "pt",
      "language_code": "pt",
      "name_en": "Portuguese",
      "name_native": "Português",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU",
        "AU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "ro",
      "language_code": "ro",
      "name_en": "Romanian",
      "name_native": "Română",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "ru",
      "language_code": "ru",
      "name_en": "Russian",
      "name_native": "Русский",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "UN"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "sk",
      "language_code": "sk",
      "name_en": "Slovak",
      "name_native": "Slovenčina",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "sl",
      "language_code": "sl",
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      "name_native": "Slovenščina",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "es",
      "language_code": "es",
      "name_en": "Spanish",
      "name_native": "Español",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "UN",
        "EU",
        "AU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "sv",
      "language_code": "sv",
      "name_en": "Swedish",
      "name_native": "Svenska",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "EU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "zh-Hans",
      "language_code": "zh",
      "name_en": "Chinese (Simplified UI profile)",
      "name_native": "中文（简体）",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "UN"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "sw",
      "language_code": "sw",
      "name_en": "Kiswahili",
      "name_native": "Kiswahili",
      "direction": "ltr",
      "official_in": [
        "AU"
      ],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    },
    {
      "locale": "fa-IR",
      "language_code": "fa",
      "name_en": "Persian",
      "name_native": "فارسی",
      "direction": "rtl",
      "official_in": [],
      "lexicon_status": "draft-needs-native-review"
    }
  ]
}