feat(location): add list of spoken languages (#3333)

* add list of spoken languages

* remove dupes

* add language definition

* add language module

* add test case for `language()`

* autogenerated supporting code

* add languages for urdu

* add test to make sure the values are truthy

* update seed to match new format

* update language list

slim them down to a few languages as the long list was not easy to build up

* update documentation

* update returns

* language: convert alpha2 to lowercase

* update seed flies

* covert alpha3 to lowercase

* update seeders

* update example

* update version

* use interface for language

* Update index.ts

* Revert "Update index.ts"

This reverts commit 72a18e99cfee1f4c09d151b27bda1f2c8d1137d8.

* Update src/modules/location/index.ts

Co-authored-by: ST-DDT <[email protected]>

* Update src/modules/location/index.ts

Co-authored-by: ST-DDT <[email protected]>

* Update src/definitions/location.ts

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* language semantic

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* add additional test cases

* add examples for each property

* add languages for the supported locales

* update seeds

* use example of german instead of english

* Update src/definitions/location.ts

Co-authored-by: ST-DDT <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: ST-DDT <[email protected]>

6 files changed, 159 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/definitions/location.ts b/src/definitions/location.ts
index 5b4a4bc3..6145f259 100644
--- a/src/definitions/location.ts
+++ b/src/definitions/location.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { Language } from '../modules/location';
 import type { LocaleEntry } from './definitions';
 
 /**
@@ -147,4 +148,11 @@ export type LocationDefinition = LocaleEntry<{
    * @see [IANA Time Zone Database](https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
    */
   time_zone: string[];
+
+  /**
+   * A list of spoken languages.
+   *
+   * @see [ISO 639-2 Language Code List](https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php)
+   */
+  language: Language[];
 }>;
diff --git a/src/locales/en/location/index.ts b/src/locales/en/location/index.ts
index 64ca3268..4dad10fe 100644
--- a/src/locales/en/location/index.ts
+++ b/src/locales/en/location/index.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import continent from './continent';
 import country from './country';
 import county from './county';
 import direction from './direction';
+import language from './language';
 import postcode from './postcode';
 import secondary_address from './secondary_address';
 import state from './state';
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ const location: LocationDefinition = {
   country,
   county,
   direction,
+  language,
   postcode,
   secondary_address,
   state,
diff --git a/src/locales/en/location/language.ts b/src/locales/en/location/language.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cddb7b9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/locales/en/location/language.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+export default [
+  { name: 'Afrikaans', alpha2: 'af', alpha3: 'afr' },
+  { name: 'Azerbaijani', alpha2: 'az', alpha3: 'aze' },
+  { name: 'Maldivian', alpha2: 'dv', alpha3: 'div' },
+  { name: 'Farsi/Persian', alpha2: 'fa', alpha3: 'fas' },
+  { name: 'Latvian', alpha2: 'lv', alpha3: 'lav' },
+  { name: 'Indonesian', alpha2: 'id', alpha3: 'ind' },
+  { name: 'Nepali', alpha2: 'ne', alpha3: 'nep' },
+  { name: 'Thai', alpha2: 'th', alpha3: 'tha' },
+  { name: 'Uzbek', alpha2: 'uz', alpha3: 'uzb' },
+  { name: 'Yoruba', alpha2: 'yo', alpha3: 'yor' },
+  { name: 'Pashto', alpha2: 'ps', alpha3: 'pus' },
+  { name: 'English', alpha2: 'en', alpha3: 'eng' },
+  { name: 'Urdu', alpha2: 'ur', alpha3: 'urd' },
+  { name: 'German', alpha2: 'de', alpha3: 'deu' },
+  { name: 'French', alpha2: 'fr', alpha3: 'fra' },
+  { name: 'Spanish', alpha2: 'es', alpha3: 'spa' },
+  { name: 'Italian', alpha2: 'it', alpha3: 'ita' },
+  { name: 'Dutch', alpha2: 'nl', alpha3: 'nld' },
+  { name: 'Russian', alpha2: 'ru', alpha3: 'rus' },
+  { name: 'Portuguese', alpha2: 'pt', alpha3: 'por' },
+  { name: 'Polish', alpha2: 'pl', alpha3: 'pol' },
+  { name: 'Arabic', alpha2: 'ar', alpha3: 'ara' },
+  { name: 'Japanese', alpha2: 'ja', alpha3: 'jpn' },
+  { name: 'Chinese', alpha2: 'zh', alpha3: 'zho' },
+  { name: 'Hindi', alpha2: 'hi', alpha3: 'hin' },
+  { name: 'Bengali', alpha2: 'bn', alpha3: 'ben' },
+  { name: 'Gujarati', alpha2: 'gu', alpha3: 'guj' },
+  { name: 'Tamil', alpha2: 'ta', alpha3: 'tam' },
+  { name: 'Telugu', alpha2: 'te', alpha3: 'tel' },
+  { name: 'Punjabi', alpha2: 'pa', alpha3: 'pan' },
+  { name: 'Vietnamese', alpha2: 'vi', alpha3: 'vie' },
+  { name: 'Korean', alpha2: 'ko', alpha3: 'kor' },
+  { name: 'Turkish', alpha2: 'tr', alpha3: 'tur' },
+  { name: 'Swedish', alpha2: 'sv', alpha3: 'swe' },
+  { name: 'Greek', alpha2: 'el', alpha3: 'ell' },
+  { name: 'Czech', alpha2: 'cs', alpha3: 'ces' },
+  { name: 'Hungarian', alpha2: 'hu', alpha3: 'hun' },
+  { name: 'Romanian', alpha2: 'ro', alpha3: 'ron' },
+  { name: 'Ukrainian', alpha2: 'uk', alpha3: 'ukr' },
+  { name: 'Norwegian', alpha2: 'no', alpha3: 'nor' },
+  { name: 'Serbian', alpha2: 'sr', alpha3: 'srp' },
+  { name: 'Croatian', alpha2: 'hr', alpha3: 'hrv' },
+  { name: 'Slovak', alpha2: 'sk', alpha3: 'slk' },
+  { name: 'Slovenian', alpha2: 'sl', alpha3: 'slv' },
+  { name: 'Icelandic', alpha2: 'is', alpha3: 'isl' },
+  { name: 'Finnish', alpha2: 'fi', alpha3: 'fin' },
+  { name: 'Danish', alpha2: 'da', alpha3: 'dan' },
+  { name: 'Swahili', alpha2: 'sw', alpha3: 'swa' },
+  { name: 'Bashkir', alpha2: 'ba', alpha3: 'bak' },
+  { name: 'Basque', alpha2: 'eu', alpha3: 'eus' },
+  { name: 'Catalan', alpha2: 'ca', alpha3: 'cat' },
+  { name: 'Galician', alpha2: 'gl', alpha3: 'glg' },
+  { name: 'Esperanto', alpha2: 'eo', alpha3: 'epo' },
+  { name: 'Fijian', alpha2: 'fj', alpha3: 'fij' },
+  { name: 'Malagasy', alpha2: 'mg', alpha3: 'mlg' },
+  { name: 'Maltese', alpha2: 'mt', alpha3: 'mlt' },
+  { name: 'Albanian', alpha2: 'sq', alpha3: 'sqi' },
+  { name: 'Armenian', alpha2: 'hy', alpha3: 'hye' },
+  { name: 'Georgian', alpha2: 'ka', alpha3: 'kat' },
+  { name: 'Macedonian', alpha2: 'mk', alpha3: 'mkd' },
+  { name: 'Kazakh', alpha2: 'kk', alpha3: 'kaz' },
+  { name: 'Haitian Creole', alpha2: 'ht', alpha3: 'hat' },
+  { name: 'Mongolian', alpha2: 'mn', alpha3: 'mon' },
+  { name: 'Kyrgyz', alpha2: 'ky', alpha3: 'kir' },
+  { name: 'Finnish', alpha2: 'fi', alpha3: 'fin' },
+  { name: 'Tagalog', alpha2: 'tl', alpha3: 'tgl' },
+  { name: 'Malay', alpha2: 'ms', alpha3: 'msa' },
+  { name: 'Tajik', alpha2: 'tg', alpha3: 'tgk' },
+  { name: 'Swati', alpha2: 'ss', alpha3: 'ssw' },
+  { name: 'Tatar', alpha2: 'tt', alpha3: 'tat' },
+  { name: 'Zulu', alpha2: 'zu', alpha3: 'zul' },
+];
diff --git a/src/locales/ur/location/index.ts b/src/locales/ur/location/index.ts
index ea213fca..d278b2d5 100644
--- a/src/locales/ur/location/index.ts
+++ b/src/locales/ur/location/index.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import city_prefix from './city_prefix';
 import city_suffix from './city_suffix';
 import country from './country';
 import direction from './direction';
+import language from './language';
 import postcode from './postcode';
 import secondary_address from './secondary_address';
 import state from './state';
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ const location: LocationDefinition = {
   city_suffix,
   country,
   direction,
+  language,
   postcode,
   secondary_address,
   state,
diff --git a/src/locales/ur/location/language.ts b/src/locales/ur/location/language.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6df7657
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/locales/ur/location/language.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+export default [
+  { name: 'پشتو', alpha2: 'ps', alpha3: 'pus' },
+  { name: 'اردو', alpha2: 'ur', alpha3: 'urd' },
+  { name: 'انگریزی', alpha2: 'en', alpha3: 'eng' },
+  { name: 'جرمن', alpha2: 'de', alpha3: 'deu' },
+  { name: 'فرانسیسی', alpha2: 'fr', alpha3: 'fra' },
+  { name: 'اسپینش', alpha2: 'es', alpha3: 'spa' },
+  { name: 'دچ', alpha2: 'nl', alpha3: 'nld' },
+  { name: 'روسی', alpha2: 'ru', alpha3: 'rus' },
+  { name: 'پرتگالی', alpha2: 'pt', alpha3: 'por' },
+  { name: 'پولش', alpha2: 'pl', alpha3: 'pol' },
+  { name: 'عربی', alpha2: 'ar', alpha3: 'ara' },
+  { name: 'جاپانی', alpha2: 'ja', alpha3: 'jpn' },
+  { name: 'چینی', alpha2: 'zh', alpha3: 'zho' },
+  { name: 'ہندی', alpha2: 'hi', alpha3: 'hin' },
+  { name: 'بنگالی', alpha2: 'bn', alpha3: 'ben' },
+  { name: 'تمل', alpha2: 'ta', alpha3: 'tam' },
+  { name: 'تلگو', alpha2: 'te', alpha3: 'tel' },
+  { name: 'پنجابی', alpha2: 'pa', alpha3: 'pan' },
+  { name: 'ترکی', alpha2: 'tr', alpha3: 'tur' },
+  { name: 'سویڈش', alpha2: 'sv', alpha3: 'swe' },
+  { name: 'یونانی', alpha2: 'el', alpha3: 'ell' },
+  { name: 'چیک', alpha2: 'cs', alpha3: 'ces' },
+  { name: 'ہنگرین', alpha2: 'hu', alpha3: 'hun' },
+  { name: 'نارویجن', alpha2: 'no', alpha3: 'nor' },
+  { name: 'کروشیائی', alpha2: 'hr', alpha3: 'hrv' },
+  { name: 'سلوواک', alpha2: 'sk', alpha3: 'slk' },
+  { name: 'سلووینیائی', alpha2: 'sl', alpha3: 'slv' },
+  { name: 'فنش', alpha2: 'fi', alpha3: 'fin' },
+  { name: 'دنش', alpha2: 'da', alpha3: 'dan' },
+  { name: 'مالٹی', alpha2: 'mt', alpha3: 'mlt' },
+  { name: 'تاجک', alpha2: 'tg', alpha3: 'tgk' },
+];
diff --git a/src/modules/location/index.ts b/src/modules/location/index.ts
index 4a49e029..29267eb1 100644
--- a/src/modules/location/index.ts
+++ b/src/modules/location/index.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,26 @@ import { FakerError } from '../../errors/faker-error';
 import { ModuleBase } from '../../internal/module-base';
 
 /**
+ * Represents a language with its full name, 2 character ISO 639-1 code, and 3 character ISO 639-2 code.
+ */
+export interface Language {
+  /**
+   * The full name for the language (e.g. `English`).
+   */
+  name: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The 2 character [ISO 639-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1) code.
+   */
+  alpha2: string;
+
+  /**
+   * The 3 character [ISO 639-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2) code.
+   */
+  alpha3: string;
+}
+
+/**
  * Module to generate addresses and locations. Prior to Faker 8.0.0, this module was known as `faker.address`.
  *
  * ### Overview
@@ -628,4 +648,25 @@ export class LocationModule extends ModuleBase {
       this.faker.definitions.location.time_zone
     );
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns a random spoken language.
+   *
+   * @see [ISO 639-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1)
+   * @see [ISO 639-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2)
+   * @see [ISO 639-2 Language Code List](https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php)
+   *
+   * @example
+   * faker.location.language() // { alpha2: 'de', alpha3: 'deu', name: 'German' }
+   * faker.location.language().name // German
+   * faker.location.language().alpha2 // de
+   * faker.location.language().alpha3 // deu
+   *
+   * @since 9.4.0
+   */
+  language(): Language {
+    return this.faker.helpers.arrayElement(
+      this.faker.definitions.location.language
+    );
+  }
 }