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Many customers wonder what the letters mean in the translated documents we send back to them. Essentially when sending a file back to a client we always add a language code. So if your document was called “Document-to-translate.doc” and we translated it into Greek - we would send it back as “Document-to-translate-EL.doc”.

We use the ISO Language codes. ISO 639 is the set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. It was also the name of the original standard, approved in 1967 and withdrawn in 2002. We use “Alpha-2″ codes (codes composed of 2 letters of the basic Latin alphabet) which are used in ISO 639-1.

Click here for a useful guide to > ISO Language Codes.

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