“The good thing about standards is that there are so many of them.”
ISO 639 language codes and ISO 3166 country codes can get a bit confusing:
For example, Sweden (the country) is “se”, but Swedish (the language) is “sv”.
On the other hand, the code “my” refers to Malaysia (the country) and Burmese — the language locally known as Bamar spoken in Myanmar (country code “mm”), formerly know as Burma (deprecated code “bu”).
“Mm tzai si,” by the way, is Hokkien — Fujien, Min-nan — (language code “zh-min-nan”) meaning “ignorant of death”. Besides the “mm” debacle above, “si” means Slovenia (the country) and Sinhalese (the language).
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