import { LanguageTag } from '@phensley/language-tag';
/**
 * Wrapper pairing an application's opaque locale identifier with a
 * parsed and resolved language tag object.
 *
 * @public
 */
export interface Locale {
    /**
     * Application's own identifier for the locale, e.g. 'en_US', 'fr-CA', etc.
     * We preserve this since applications may use it as a unique key to
     * resolve translated messages, and may be forced to use a legacy
     * identifier.
     */
    readonly id: string;
    /**
     * Language tag that has been parsed and resolved. Parsing canonicalizes
     * the subtags, while resolution includes substituting language and
     * territory aliases and adding likely subtags.
     */
    readonly tag: LanguageTag;
}
/**
 * Merged declaration to add a resolve() method to Locale interface.
 *
 * @public
 */
export declare class LocaleResolver {
    /**
     * Parses a language tag and resolves it, substituting aliases and
     * adding likely subtags.
     */
    static resolve(id: string): Locale;
}