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`@documentlanguage CC': Set the Document Language
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  The `@documentlanguage' command declares the current document
language.  Write it on a line by itself, with a two-letter ISO-639
language code following (list is included below).  If you have a
multilingual document, the intent is to be able to use this command
multiple times, to declare each language change.  If the command is not
used at all, the default is `en' for English.

  At present, this command is ignored in Info and HTML output.  For
TeX, it causes the file `txi-CC.tex' to be read (if it exists).  Such a
file appropriately redefines the various English words used in TeX
output, such as `Chapter', `See', and so on.

  It would be good if this command also changed TeX's ideas of the
current hyphenation patterns (via the TeX primitive `\language'), but
this is unfortunately not currently implemented.

  Hereare the valid language codes, from ISO-639.

`aa'  Afar                 `ab' Abkhazian            `af' Afrikaans
`am'  Amharic              `ar' Arabic               `as' Assamese
`ay'  Aymara               `az' Azerbaijani          `ba' Bashkir
`be'  Byelorussian         `bg' Bulgarian            `bh' Bihari
`bi'  Bislama              `bn' Bengali; Bangla      `bo' Tibetan
`br'  Breton               `ca' Catalan              `co' Corsican
`cs'  Czech                `cy' Welsh                `da' Danish
`de'  German               `dz' Bhutani              `el' Greek
`en'  English              `eo' Esperanto            `es' Spanish
`et'  Estonian             `eu' Basque               `fa' Persian
`fi'  Finnish              `fj' Fiji                 `fo' Faroese
`fr'  French               `fy' Frisian              `ga' Irish
`gd'  Scots Gaelic         `gl' Galician             `gn' Guarani
`gu'  Gujarati             `ha' Hausa                `he' Hebrew
`hi'  Hindi                `hr' Croatian             `hu' Hungarian
`hy'  Armenian             `ia' Interlingua          `id' Indonesian
`ie'  Interlingue          `ik' Inupiak              `is' Icelandic
`it'  Italian              `iu' Inuktitut            `ja' Japanese
`jw'  Javanese             `ka' Georgian             `kk' Kazakh
`kl'  Greenlandic          `km' Cambodian            `kn' Kannada
`ks'  Kashmiri             `ko' Korean               `ku' Kurdish
`ky'  Kirghiz              `la' Latin                `ln' Lingala
`lt'  Lithuanian           `lo' Laothian             `lv' Latvian, Lettish
`mg'  Malagasy             `mi' Maori                `mk' Macedonian
`ml'  Malayalam            `mn' Mongolian            `mo' Moldavian
`mr'  Marathi              `ms' Malay                `mt' Maltese
`my'  Burmese              `na' Nauru                `ne' Nepali
`nl'  Dutch                `no' Norwegian            `oc' Occitan
`om'  (Afan) Oromo         `or' Oriya                `pa' Punjabi
`pl'  Polish               `ps' Pashto, Pushto       `pt' Portuguese
`qu'  Quechua              `rm' Rhaeto-Romance       `rn' Kirundi
`ro'  Romanian             `ru' Russian              `rw' Kinyarwanda
`sa'  Sanskrit             `sd' Sindhi               `sg' Sangro
`sh'  Serbo-Croatian       `si' Sinhalese            `sk' Slovak
`sl'  Slovenian            `sm' Samoan               `sn' Shona
`so'  Somali               `sq' Albanian             `sr' Serbian
`ss'  Siswati              `st' Sesotho              `su' Sundanese
`sv'  Swedish              `sw' Swahili              `ta' Tamil
`te'  Telugu               `tg' Tajik                `th' Thai
`ti'  Tigrinya             `tk' Turkmen              `tl' Tagalog
`tn'  Setswana             `to' Tonga                `tr' Turkish
`ts'  Tsonga               `tt' Tatar                `tw' Twi
`ug'  Uighur               `uk' Ukrainian            `ur' Urdu
`uz'  Uzbek                `vi' Vietnamese           `vo' Volapuk
`wo'  Wolof                `xh' Xhosa                `yi' Yiddish
`yo'  Yoruba               `za' Zhuang               `zh' Chinese
`zu'  Zulu