After thinking about it, it seems to be alphabetically by ISO 639-2 code, but how many people know their code?
Sorting the list of languages either by English transliteration or by Unicode code points would probably make more sense ... in a list that size, you can just about read through the entire thing looking for "your" language", but if it gets much bigger you want to be able to rule out large chunks by recognising the ordering so that you only have to check a much smaller portion till you find yours.
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Date: 2010-02-15 03:49 pm (UTC)After thinking about it, it seems to be alphabetically by ISO 639-2 code, but how many people know their code?
Sorting the list of languages either by English transliteration or by Unicode code points would probably make more sense ... in a list that size, you can just about read through the entire thing looking for "your" language", but if it gets much bigger you want to be able to rule out large chunks by recognising the ordering so that you only have to check a much smaller portion till you find yours.