{
  "metadata": {
    "version": "1.1",
    "updated": "2025-12-21",
    "notes": [
      "Manual alias mapping for dataset node names to ISO 639-3 codes when direct name matching fails.",
      "Updated mappings for Hmong-Mien and Indigenous American languages."
    ]
  },
  "aliases": [
    {"name": "Mandarin", "iso_639_3": "cmn", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Mandarin Chinese"},
    {"name": "Cantonese", "iso_639_3": "yue", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Yue Chinese"},
    {"name": "Wu (Shanghainese)", "iso_639_3": "wuu", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Wu Chinese"},
    {"name": "Min Nan (Hokkien)", "iso_639_3": "nan", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Min Nan Chinese"},
    {"name": "Gan", "iso_639_3": "gan", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Gan Chinese"},
    {"name": "Hakka", "iso_639_3": "hak", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Hakka Chinese"},
    {"name": "Tosk", "iso_639_3": "als", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Tosk Albanian"},
    {"name": "Gheg", "iso_639_3": "aln", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Gheg Albanian"},
    {"name": "Jeju", "iso_639_3": "jje", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Jejueo"},
    {"name": "Fula", "iso_639_3": "ful", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Fulah"},
    {"name": "Tongan", "iso_639_3": "ton", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Tonga (Tonga Islands)"},
    {"name": "Maasai", "iso_639_3": "mas", "confidence": "high"},
    {"name": "Central Alaskan Yupik", "iso_639_3": "esu", "confidence": "high"},
    {"name": "Ojibwe", "iso_639_3": "oji", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Ojibwa macro-language"},
    {"name": "Blackfoot", "iso_639_3": "bla", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Siksika"},
    {"name": "Yucatec", "iso_639_3": "yua", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Yucatec Maya"},
    {"name": "Buryat", "iso_639_3": "bua", "confidence": "high"},
    {"name": "Western Arrernte", "iso_639_3": "are", "confidence": "high"},
    {"name": "Djambarrpuyŋu", "iso_639_3": "djr", "confidence": "high"},
    {"name": "Noongar", "iso_639_3": "nys", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Nyungar"},
    {"name": "Romani", "iso_639_3": "rom", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Romany macrolanguage"},
    {"name": "Balochi", "iso_639_3": "bal", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Baluchi macrolanguage"},
    {"name": "Kamkata-vari", "iso_639_3": "bsh", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Kati (Kamkata-vari)"},
    {"name": "Frisian", "iso_639_3": "fry", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Western Frisian as representative"},
    {"name": "Sorbian", "iso_639_3": "hsb", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Upper Sorbian as representative"},
    {"name": "Eastern Armenian", "iso_639_3": "hye", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Armenian (Eastern)"},
    {"name": "Karen", "iso_639_3": "kar", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Karen languages (collective)"},
    {"name": "Aramaic", "iso_639_3": "arc", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Official Aramaic (generic)"},
    {"name": "Tamazight", "iso_639_3": "zgh", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Standard Moroccan Tamazight"},
    {"name": "Tuareg", "iso_639_3": "tmh", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Tamashek macrolanguage"},
    {"name": "Ryukyuan", "iso_639_3": "ryu", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Central Okinawan as representative"},
    {"name": "Sami", "iso_639_3": "sme", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Northern Sami as representative"},
    {"name": "Hmu", "iso_639_3": "hmq", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Eastern Qiandong Miao (Hmu)"},
    {"name": "Mun", "iso_639_3": "mji", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Kim Mun"},
    {"name": "Biao Min", "iso_639_3": "bmt", "confidence": "high", "notes": "Biao Mon"},
    {"name": "Alutiiq (Pacific Yupik)", "iso_639_3": "ems", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Pacific Gulf Yupik"},
    {"name": "Asmat", "iso_639_3": "cns", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Central Asmat as representative"},
    {"name": "Apache", "iso_639_3": "apw", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Western Apache as representative"},
    {"name": "Nahuatl", "iso_639_3": "nah", "confidence": "medium", "notes": "Nahuatl languages (collective)"}
  ]
}