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Language codes with language and optionally a region modifier

<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="simple-language"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h2>Language codes with language and optionally a region modifier</h2><div><p>This value set includes codes from <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47">BCP-47</a>. This value set matches the ONC 2015 Edition LanguageCommunication data element value set within C-CDA to use a 2 character language code if one exists,   and a 3 character code if a 2 character code does not exist. It points back to <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646">RFC 5646</a>, however only the language codes are required, all other elements are optional.</p>
</div><p>This value set includes codes from the following code systems:</p><ul><li>Include codes from <code>urn:ietf:bcp:47</code> where ext-lang  exists  false and <code>urn:ietf:bcp:47</code> where script  exists  false and <code>urn:ietf:bcp:47</code> where variant  exists  false and <code>urn:ietf:bcp:47</code> where extension  exists  false and <code>urn:ietf:bcp:47</code> where private-use  exists  false</li></ul></div>
  </text>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/simple-language"/>
  <version value="1.0.0"/>
  <name value="Language codes with language and optionally a region modifier"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <date value="2017-02-28"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 US Realm Steering Committee"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="This value set includes codes from [BCP-47](http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47). This value set matches the ONC 2015 Edition LanguageCommunication data element value set within C-CDA to use a 2 character language code if one exists,   and a 3 character code if a 2 character code does not exist. It points back to [RFC 5646](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646), however only the language codes are required, all other elements are optional."/>
  <compose>
    <include>
      <system value="urn:ietf:bcp:47"/>
      <filter>
        <property value="ext-lang"/>
        <op value="exists"/>
        <value value="false"/>
      </filter>
      <filter>
        <property value="script"/>
        <op value="exists"/>
        <value value="false"/>
      </filter>
      <filter>
        <property value="variant"/>
        <op value="exists"/>
        <value value="false"/>
      </filter>
      <filter>
        <property value="extension"/>
        <op value="exists"/>
        <value value="false"/>
      </filter>
      <filter>
        <property value="private-use"/>
        <op value="exists"/>
        <value value="false"/>
      </filter>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>