@keymanapp/langtags

Keyman langtags

This package provides a wrapper for the langtags.json dataset from https://github.com/silnrsi/langtags.

This package is published in sync with Keyman, so changes in langtags may not propagate immediately.

Usage

• getLangtagByTag(tag): Find a language tag from a given tag; matches on tag, tags, full properties, with a case-insensitive search. Returns unmodified object from langtags.json on match.

• metadata.conformance(): Returns script and region conformance data from langtags.json

• metadata.globalvar(): Returns global variant data from langtags.json

• metadata.phonvar(): Returns phonetic variant data from langtags.json

• metadata.version(): Returns version data from langtags.json

• langtags: Raw access to the langtags.json array of objects

Background

Key documents for further reading (from langtags repository):

• Overview of language tags and how this project works with them

• How to use langtags.json

License

• Copyright ©️ 2025 SIL Global.
• MIT License (License text)