User:Mike Dillon/Scripts/langnames.js

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var wgLangNames = {};

function addLanguageName(code, name) {
    wgLangNames[code] = name;
}

function getLanguageName(code) {
    return wgLangNames[code];
}

function getLanguageCodes() {
    var codes = [];
    for (code in wgLangNames) {
        codes.push(code);
    }
    return codes;
}

addLanguageName('en', 'English');
addLanguageName('et', 'Estonian');
addLanguageName('ru', 'Russian');
addLanguageName('sv', 'Swedish');