ISO 3166-2:ZA by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA). ISO 639-1 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following administrative languages: "Click on the button in the header to sort each column." The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998: ISO 3166-2:ZA ISO 3166-2:ZA is the entry for South Africa in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all
Za (cuneiform) Za (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign za is a common use sign in the Amarna letters and the "Epic of Gilgamesh." It is used syllabically for "ṣa", "za", and "ZA" (ZA as parts of personal names, places, or common words, etc.), and alphabetically for "ṣ" (s), "z", or "a". (All the 4 vowels, "a, e, i, o" are interchangeable.) In the 14th century BC Amarna letters, "za" is used in the spelling of the word for "mayor" (city, city-state administrator), Akkadian "hazannu". For example in EA 144 (from Zimreddi of Sidon), "obverse", line 5: "man-hazzanu", ""-Ha-za-nu. Za has a fairly high