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ISO 639 is an international standard which lists short codes for language names. See also SIL code.
From the ISO official website there are two items for ISO 639:
- ISO 639-1:2002 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 1: Alpha-2 code
- ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 2: Alpha-3 code
- ISO 639-3: (in discussion : http://xml.coverpages.org/Nx74Clews-part3.pdf )
In other words, there are two-letter codes and three-letter codes. 22 of the languages have two three-letter codes. In these
cases, the first code is bibliographic (ISO 639-1/B), and the second code is for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T).
- See also: language families
and languages, list of languages, list of official languages
The following incomplete list is sorted by language name in the third column.
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
A
abk ab Abkhazian
ace Achinese
ach Acholi
ada Adangme
ady Adyghe; Adygei
aar aa Afar
afh Afrihili
afr af Afrikaans
afa Afro-Asiatic languages (Other)
aka Akan
akk Akkadian
alb/sqi sq Albanian
ale Aleut
alg Algonquian languages
tut Altaic languages (Other)
amh am Amharic
apa Apache language
ara ar Arabic
arc Aramaic
arg an Aragonese
arn Araucanian
arp Arapaho
arw Arawak
arm/hye hy Armenian
art Artificial (Other)
asm as Assamese
ast Asturian
ath Athapascan
map Austronesian (Other)
ava Avar
ave ae Avestan
awa Awadhi
aym ay Aymara
aze az Azeri
B
ban Balinese
bat Baltic (Other)
bal Baluchi
bam Bambara
bai Bamileke languages
bad Banda
bnt Bantu (Other)
bas Basa
bak ba Bashkir
baq/eus eu Basque
bej Beja
bem Bemba
ben bn Bengali
ber Berber (Other)
bho Bhojpuri
bih bh Bihari
bik Bikol
bin Bini
bis bi Bislama; Biche-la-mer
bnt Bikya
byn Blin
bra Braj
bre br Breton
bos bs Bosnian
bug Buginese
bul bg Bulgarian
bua Buriat
bur/mya my Burmese
bel be Belarusian
C
cad Caddo
car Carib
cat ca Catalan
cau Caucasian (Other)
ceb Cebuano
cel Celtic (Other)
cai Central American Indian languages (Other)
chg Chagatai
cha ch Chamorro
che ce Chechen
chr Cherokee
chy Cheyenne
chb Chibcha
chi/zho zh Chinese
chn Chinook jargon
cho Choctaw
chu cu Church Slavic
chv cv Chuvash
nwc Classical Newari
cop Coptic
cor Cornish
cos co Corsican
cre Cree
mus Creek
crp Creoles and Pidgins (Other)
cpe Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
cpf Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)
cpp Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
cus Cushitic (Other)
crh Crimean Tatar
scr hr Croatian
cze/ces cs Czech
D
dak Dakota
dan da Danish
dar Dargwa
del Delaware
din Dinka
div Divehi
doi Dogrib
dra Dravidian (Other)
dua Duala
dut/nld nl Dutch
dum Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
dyu Dyula
dzo dz Dzongkha
E
efi Efik
egy Egyptian (Ancient)
eka Ekajuk
elx Elamite
eng en English
enm English, Middle (ca. 1100-1500)
ang English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
myv Erzya
esk Eskimo (Other)
epo eo Esperanto
est et Estonian
ewe Ewe
ewo Ewondo
F
fan Fang
fat Fanti
fao fo Faroese
fij fj Fijian
fin fi Finnish
fiu Finno-Ugric (Other)
fon Fon
fra/fre fr French
frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
fro French, Old (842- ca. 1400)
fry fy Frisian
ful Fulani
G
gaa Ga
gla gd Scots Gaelic
glg gl Galician
lug lg Ganda
gay Gayo
gez Ge'ez
geo/kat ka Georgian
ger/deu de German
gmh German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
goh German, Old High (ca. 750 - 1050)
gem Germanic (Other)
gil Kiribati/Gilbertese
gon Gondi
got Gothic
grb Grebo
grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
gre/ell el Greek, Modern (1453 -)
kal kl Greenlandic
grn gn Guarani
guj gu Gujarati
H
hai Haida
hat ht Haitian Creole
hau ha Hausa
haw Hawaiian
heb he Hebrew
her hz Herero
hil Hiligaynon
him Himachali
hin hi Hindi
hmo ho Hiri Motu
hun hu Hungarian
hup Hupa
I
iba Iban
ice/isl is Icelandic
ido io Ido
ibo ig Igbo
ijo Ijo
ilo Ilocano
smn Inari Sami
inc Indic (Other)
ine Indo-European (Other)
ind id Indonesian
inh Ingush
ina ia Interlingua (International Auxiliary language Association)
ine ie Interlingue
iku iu Inuktitut
ipk ik Inupiak
ira Iranian (Other)
gle ga Irish
sga Irish, Old (to 900)
mga Irish, Middle (900 - 1200)
iro Iroquoian languages
ita it Italian
J
jpn ja Japanese
jav jv Javanese
jrb Judeo-Arabic
jpr Judeo-Persian
K
kbd Kabardian
kab Kabyle
kac Kachin
kal kl Greenlandic
xal Kalmyk
kam Kamba
kan kn Kannada
kau kr Kanuri
kaa Kara-Kalpak
krc Karachay-Balkar
kar Karen
kas ks Kashimiri
csb Kashubian
kaw Kawi
kaz kk Kazakh
kha Khasi
khm km Khmer
khi Khoisan (Other)
kho Khotanese
kik ki Kikuyu
kin rw Kinyarwanda
kir ky Kirghiz
tlh Klingon
kom kv Komi
kon kg Kongo
kok Konkani
kor ko Korean
kpe Kpelle
kro Kru
kua kj Kuanyama
kum Kumyk
kur ku Kurdish
kru Kurukh
kus Kusaie
kut Kutenai
L
lad Ladino
lah Lahnda (Western Punjabi)
lam Lamba
lao lo Lao
lat la Latin
lav lv Latvian
ltz Letzeburgesch
lez Lezghian
lim li Limburgish
lin ln Lingala
lit lt Lithuanian
jbo Lojban
log pd Low German
nds Low Saxon
dsb Lower Sorbian
loz Lozi
lub Luba-Katanga
lui Luiseno
smj Lule Sami
lun Lunda
luo Luo
M
mac/mkd mk Macedonian
mad Madurese
mag Magahi
mai Maithili
mak Makasar
mlg mg Malagasy
may/msa ms Malay
mal Malayalam
mlt mt Maltese
mnc Manchu
man Mandingo
mni Manipuri
mno Manobo
glv gv Manx
mao/mri mi Maori
mar mr Marathi
chm Mari
mah mh Marshallese
mwr Marwari
mas Masai
myn Mayan
men Mende
mic Mi'kmaq
min Minangkabau
mis Miscellaneous (Other)
moh Mohawk
mdf Moksha
mol mo Moldavian
mkh Austro-Asiatic (Other)
lol Mongo
mon mn Mongolian
mos Mossi
mul Multiple languages (several languages used)
mun Munda
N
nah Nahuatl
nau na Nauru
nav nv Navajo
nde nd Ndebele, North
nbl nr Ndebele, South
ndo ng Ndonga
nap Neopolitan
nep ne Nepali
new Newari
nic Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
ssa Nilo-Saharan (Other)
niu Niuean
nog Nogai
non Norse, Old
nai North American Indian languages (Other)
sme se Northern Sami
nor no Norwegian
nbo nb Norwegian (Bokmål)
nno nn Norwegian (Nynorsk)
nub Nubian
nym Nyamwezi
nya ny Nyanja
nyn Nyankole
nyo Nyoro
nzi Nzima
O
oci oc Occitan (post 1500)
oji oj Ojibwe
ori or Oriya
orm om Oromo
osa Osage
oss os Ossetian
oto Otomian
P
pal Pahlavi
pau Palauan
pli pi Pali
pam Pampanga
pag Pangasinan
pan pa Panjabi
pap Papiamento
paa Papuan-Australian (Other)
per/fas fa Farsi
peo Persian, Old (ca 600 - 400 B.C.)
phn Phoenician
pol pl Polish
pon Ponapean
por pt Portuguese
pra Prakrits
pro Provencal, Old (to 1500)
pus ps Pashto
Q
que qu Quechua
R
raj Rajasthani
rap Rapanui
rar Rarotongan
roh rm Rhaeto-Romance
roa Romance (Other)
rum/ron ro Romanian
rom Romany
run rn Rundi
rus ru Russian
S
sal Salishan
sam Samaritan Aramaic
smi Sami
smo sm Samoan
sad Sandawe
sag sg Sango
san sa Sanskrit
srd sc Sardinian
sco Scots
sel Selkup
sem Semitic (Other)
scc/srp sr Serbian
(sh) Serbo-Croatian
srr Serer
shn Shan
sna sn Shona
iii ii Yi
sid Sidamo
sgn Signed languages
bla Siksika
snd sd Sindhi
sin si Sinhalese
sit - Sino-Tibetan (Other)
sio Siouan
sms Skolt Sami
sla Slavic (Other)
ssw ss Siswant (the same as Swati, see below)
slk/slo sk Slovak
slv sl Slovenian
sog Sogdian
som so Somali
son Songhai
wen Sorbian
nso Sotho, Northern
sot st Sotho, Southern
sma Southern Sami
sai South American Indian languages (Other)
spa es Spanish
suk Sukuma
sux Sumerian
sun su Sundanese
sus Susu
swa sw Swahili
ssw ss Swati/Swazi
swe sv Swedish
syr Syriac
T
tgl tl Tagalog
tah Tahitian
tgk tg Tajik
tmh Tamashek
tam ta Tamil
tat tt Tatar
tel te Telugu
ter Tereno
tha th Thai
tib/bod bo Tibetan
tig Tigre
tir ti Tigrinya; Tigrigna
tem Timne
tiv Tivi
tli Tlingit
tog Tonga
ton to Tongan
tru Trukese
tsi Tsimshian
tso ts Tsonga
tsn tn Tswana
tum Tumbuka
tup Tupi
tur tr Turkish
ota Turkish, Ottoman (1500 - 1928)
tuk tk Turkmen
tyv Tuvinian
twi tw Twi
U
udm Udmurt
uga Ugaritic
uig ug Uighur
ukr uk Ukrainian
umb Umbundu
und Undetermined (language or languages cannot be identified)
hsb Sorbian, Upper
urd ur Urdu
uzb uz Uzbek
V
vai Vai
ven Venda
vie vi Vietnamese
vol vo Volapük
vot Votic
W
wak Wakashan
wal Walamo
wln wa Walloon
war Waray
was Washo
wel/cym cy Welsh
wol wo Wolof
X
xho xh Xhosa
Y
sah Yakut
yao Yao
yap Yapese
yid yi Yiddish
yor yo Yoruba
Z
zap Zapotec
zen Zenaga
zha za Zhuang
zul zu Zulu
zun Zuni
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