Language strings in urls

Question

Which would be a good way to handle URLs on a website that offers multiple languages ​​but has one main language (in my case, English).

What should be the address of the English homepage? http://example.com/? http://example.com/en/? http://example.com/english/? Other?

What should be the address of the home page in another language, say, in German? http://example.com/german/? http://example.com/de/? http://example.com/deutsch/?

Would it make sense to use language-specific subdomains? What would you do and why?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

I think that the best stylish solution is to use the address in the format http://yourdomain.comas the URL of the main page and the identification of localized web pages with ISO 639-1 language codes