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vercoutere/lingua
=================

Easily find (English or native) language names by their ISO 639-1 language code.

0.0.1(10y ago)033MITPHP

Since Oct 13Pushed 6y ago1 watchersCompare

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Lingua language library
-----------------------

[](#lingua-language-library)

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Lingua is a simple library that links language codes to language names in both English and the corresponding language's native translation.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Install using composer.

```
composer require vercoutere/lingua
```

Create a new instance.

```
use \Lingua\Language;

$lingua = new Language;
```

Use the availlable functions.

```
$language = $lingua->getLanguageByCode('en');
$language = $lingua->getLanguageByName('german');
$language = $lingua->getLanguageByNativeName('nederlands');
```

### License

[](#license)

This library is open sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 31% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3917d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![Vercoutere](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3820377?v=4)](https://github.com/Vercoutere "Vercoutere (3 commits)")

---

Tags

languageisolocale639-1

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