# ISO 639 Language Codes

## ISO 639: 3-letter codes

    abk      ab    Abkhazian
    ace            Achinese
    ach            Acoli
    ada            Adangme
    aar      aa    Afar
    afh            Afrihili
    afr      af    Afrikaans
    afa            Afro-Asiatic (Other)
    aka            Akan
    akk            Akkadian
    alb/sqi  sq    Albanian
    ale            Aleut
    alg            Algonquian languages
    tut            Altaic (Other)
    amh      am    Amharic
    apa            Apache languages
    ara      ar    Arabic
    arc            Aramaic
    arp            Arapaho
    arn            Araucanian
    arw            Arawak
    arm/hye  hy    Armenian
    art            Artificial (Other)
    asm      as    Assamese
    ath            Athapascan languages
    map            Austronesian (Other)
    ava            Avaric
    ave            Avestan
    awa            Awadhi
    aym      ay    Aymara
    aze      az    Azerbaijani
    nah            Aztec
    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
    bra            Braj
    bre      be    Breton
    bug            Buginese
    bul      bg    Bulgarian
    bua            Buriat
    bur/mya  my    Burmese
    bel      be    Byelorussian
    cad            Caddo
    car            Carib
    cat      ca    Catalan
    cau            Caucasian (Other)
    ceb            Cebuano
    cel            Celtic (Other)
    cai            Central American Indian (Other)
    chg            Chagatai
    cha            Chamorro
    che            Chechen
    chr            Cherokee
    chy            Cheyenne
    chb            Chibcha
    chi/zho  zh    Chinese
    chn            Chinook jargon
    cho            Choctaw
    chu            Church Slavic
    chv            Chuvash
    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)
             hr    Croatian
    ces/cze  cs    Czech
    dak            Dakota
    dan      da    Danish
    del            Delaware
    din            Dinka
    div            Divehi
    doi            Dogri
    dra            Dravidian (Other)
    dua            Duala
    dut/nla  nl    Dutch
    dum            Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
    dyu            Dyula
    dzo      dz    Dzongkha
    efi            Efik
    egy            Egyptian (Ancient)
    eka            Ekajuk
    elx            Elamite
    eng      en    English
    enm            English, Middle (ca. 1100-1500)
    ang            English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
    esk            Eskimo (Other)
    epo      eo    Esperanto
    est      et    Estonian
    ewe            Ewe
    ewo            Ewondo
    fan            Fang
    fat            Fanti
    fao      fo    Faroese
    fij      fj    Fijian
    fin      fi    Finnish
    fiu            Finno-Ugrian (Other)
    fon            Fon
    fra/fre  fr    French
    frm            French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
    fro            French, Old (842- ca. 1400)
    fry      fy    Frisian
    ful            Fulah
    gaa            Ga
    gae/gdh  Gaelic (Scots)
    glg      gl    Gallegan
    lug            Ganda
    gay            Gayo
    gez            Geez
    geo/kat  ka    Georgian
    deu/ger  de    German
    gmh            German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
    goh            German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)
    gem            Germanic (Other)
    gil            Gilbertese
    gon            Gondi
    got            Gothic
    grb            Grebo
    grc            Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
    ell/gre  el    Greek, Modern (1453-)
    kal      kl    Greenlandic
    grn      gn    Guarani
    guj      gu    Gujarati
    hai            Haida
    hau      ha    Hausa
    haw            Hawaiian
    heb      he    Hebrew
    her            Herero
    hil            Hiligaynon
    him            Himachali
    hin      hi    Hindi
    hmo            Hiri Motu
    hun      hu    Hungarian
    hup            Hupa
    iba            Iban
    ice/isl  is    Icelandic
    ibo            Igbo
    ijo            Ijo
    ilo            Iloko
    inc            Indic (Other)
    ine            Indo-European (Other)
    ind      id    Indonesian
    ina      ia    Interlingua (International Auxiliary language Association)
    ine      -     Interlingue
    iku      iu    Inuktitut
    ipk      ik    Inupiak
    ira            Iranian (Other)
    gai/iri  ga    Irish
    sga            Irish, Old (to 900)
    mga            Irish, Middle (900 - 1200)
    iro            Iroquoian languages
    ita      it    Italian
    jpn      ja    Japanese
    jav/jaw  jv/jw Javanese
    jrb            Judeo-Arabic
    jpr            Judeo-Persian
    kab            Kabyle
    kac            Kachin
    kam            Kamba
    kan      kn    Kannada
    kau            Kanuri
    kaa            Kara-Kalpak
    kar            Karen
    kas      ks    Kashmiri
    kaw            Kawi
    kaz      kk    Kazakh
    kha            Khasi
    khm      km    Khmer
    khi            Khoisan (Other)
    kho            Khotanese
    kik            Kikuyu
    kin      rw    Kinyarwanda
    kir      ky    Kirghiz
    kom            Komi
    kon            Kongo
    kok            Konkani
    kor      ko    Korean
    kpe            Kpelle
    kro            Kru
    kua            Kuanyama
    kum            Kumyk
    kur      ku    Kurdish
    kru            Kurukh
    kus            Kusaie
    kut            Kutenai
    lad            Ladino
    lah            Lahnda
    lam            Lamba
    oci      oc    Langue d'Oc (post 1500)
    lao      lo    Lao
    lat      la    Latin
    lav      lv    Latvian
    ltz            Letzeburgesch
    lez            Lezghian
    lin      ln    Lingala
    lit      lt    Lithuanian
    loz            Lozi
    lub            Luba-Katanga
    lui            Luiseno
    lun            Lunda
    luo            Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
    mac/mak  mk    Macedonian
    mad            Madurese
    mag            Magahi
    mai            Maithili
    mak            Makasar
    mlg      mg    Malagasy
    may/msa  ms    Malay
    mal            Malayalam
    mlt      ml    Maltese
    man            Mandingo
    mni            Manipuri
    mno            Manobo languages
    max            Manx
    mao/mri  mi    Maori
    mar      mr    Marathi
    chm            Mari
    mah            Marshall
    mwr            Marwari
    mas            Masai
    myn            Mayan languages
    men            Mende
    mic            Micmac
    min            Minangkabau
    mis            Miscellaneous (Other)
    moh            Mohawk
    mol      mo    Moldavian
    mkh            Mon-Kmer (Other)
    lol            Mongo
    mon      mn    Mongolian
    mos            Mossi
    mul            Multiple languages
    mun            Munda languages
    nau      na    Nauru
    nav            Navajo
    nde            Ndebele, North
    nbl            Ndebele, South
    ndo            Ndongo
    nep      ne    Nepali
    new            Newari
    nic            Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
    ssa            Nilo-Saharan (Other)
    niu            Niuean
    non            Norse, Old
    nai            North American Indian (Other)
    nor      no    Norwegian
    nno            Norwegian (Nynorsk)
    nub            Nubian languages
    nym            Nyamwezi
    nya            Nyanja
    nyn            Nyankole
    nyo            Nyoro
    nzi            Nzima
    oji            Ojibwa
    ori      or    Oriya
    orm      om    Oromo
    osa            Osage
    oss            Ossetic
    oto            Otomian languages
    pal            Pahlavi
    pau            Palauan
    pli            Pali
    pam            Pampanga
    pag            Pangasinan
    pan      pa    Panjabi
    pap            Papiamento
    paa            Papuan-Australian (Other)
    fas/per  fa    Persian
    peo            Persian, Old (ca 600 - 400 B.C.)
    phn            Phoenician
    pol      pl    Polish
    pon            Ponape
    por      pt    Portuguese
    pra            Prakrit languages
    pro            Provencal, Old (to 1500)
    pus      ps    Pushto
    que      qu    Quechua
    roh      rm    Rhaeto-Romance
    raj            Rajasthani
    rar            Rarotongan
    roa            Romance (Other)
    ron/rum  ro    Romanian
    rom            Romany
    run      rn    Rundi
    rus      ru    Russian
    sal            Salishan languages
    sam            Samaritan Aramaic
    smi            Sami languages
    smo      sm    Samoan
    sad            Sandawe
    sag      sg    Sango
    san      sa    Sanskrit
    srd            Sardinian
    sco            Scots
    sel            Selkup
    sem            Semitic (Other)
             sr    Serbian
    scr      sh    Serbo-Croatian
    srr            Serer
    shn            Shan
    sna      sn    Shona
    sid            Sidamo
    bla            Siksika
    snd      sd    Sindhi
    sin      si    Singhalese
    sit      -     Sino-Tibetan (Other)
    sio            Siouan languages
    sla            Slavic (Other)
    ssw      ss    Siswant
    slk/slo  sk    Slovak
    slv      sl    Slovenian
    sog            Sogdian
    som      so    Somali
    son            Songhai
    wen            Sorbian languages
    nso            Sotho, Northern
    sot      st    Sotho, Southern
    sai            South American Indian (Other)
    esl/spa  es    Spanish
    suk            Sukuma
    sux            Sumerian
    sun      su    Sudanese
    sus            Susu
    swa      sw    Swahili
    ssw            Swazi
    sve/swe  sv    Swedish
    syr            Syriac
    tgl      tl    Tagalog
    tah            Tahitian
    tgk      tg    Tajik
    tmh            Tamashek
    tam      ta    Tamil
    tat      tt    Tatar
    tel      te    Telugu
    ter            Tereno
    tha      th    Thai
    bod/tib  bo    Tibetan
    tig            Tigre
    tir      ti    Tigrinya
    tem            Timne
    tiv            Tivi
    tli            Tlingit
    tog      to    Tonga (Nyasa)
    ton            Tonga (Tonga Islands)
    tru            Truk
    tsi            Tsimshian
    tso      ts    Tsonga
    tsn      tn    Tswana
    tum            Tumbuka
    tur      tr    Turkish
    ota            Turkish, Ottoman (1500 - 1928)
    tuk      tk    Turkmen
    tyv            Tuvinian
    twi      tw    Twi
    uga            Ugaritic
    uig      ug    Uighur
    ukr      uk    Ukrainian
    umb            Umbundu
    und            Undetermined
    urd      ur    Urdu
    uzb      uz    Uzbek
    vai            Vai
    ven            Venda
    vie      vi    Vietnamese
    vol      vo    Volapük
    vot            Votic
    wak            Wakashan languages
    wal            Walamo
    war            Waray
    was            Washo
    cym/wel  cy    Welsh
    wol      wo    Wolof
    xho      xh    Xhosa
    sah            Yakut
    yao            Yao
    yap            Yap
    yid      yi    Yiddish
    yor      yo    Yoruba
    zap            Zapotec
    zen            Zenaga
    zha      za    Zhuang
    zul      zu    Zulu
    zun            Zuni

## ISO 639: 2-letter codes

    AA "Afar"
    AB "Abkhazian"
    AF "Afrikaans"
    AM "Amharic"
    AR "Arabic"
    AS "Assamese"
    AY "Aymara"
    AZ "Azerbaijani"
    BA "Bashkir"
    BE "Byelorussian"
    BG "Bulgarian"
    BH "Bihari"
    BI "Bislama"
    BN "Bengali" "Bangla"
    BO "Tibetan"
    BR "Breton"
    CA "Catalan"
    CO "Corsican"
    CS "Czech"
    CY "Welsh"
    DA "Danish"
    DE "German"
    DZ "Bhutani"
    EL "Greek"
    EN "English" "American"
    EO "Esperanto"
    ES "Spanish"
    ET "Estonian"
    EU "Basque"
    FA "Persian"
    FI "Finnish"
    FJ "Fiji"
    FO "Faeroese"
    FR "French"
    FY "Frisian"
    GA "Irish"
    GD "Gaelic" "Scots Gaelic"
    GL "Galician"
    GN "Guarani"
    GU "Gujarati"
    HA "Hausa"
    HI "Hindi"
    HR "Croatian"
    HU "Hungarian"
    HY "Armenian"
    IA "Interlingua"
    IE "Interlingue"
    IK "Inupiak"
    IN "Indonesian"
    IS "Icelandic"
    IT "Italian"
    IW "Hebrew"
    JA "Japanese"
    JI "Yiddish"
    JW "Javanese"
    KA "Georgian"
    KK "Kazakh"
    KL "Greenlandic"
    KM "Cambodian"
    KN "Kannada"
    KO "Korean"
    KS "Kashmiri"
    KU "Kurdish"
    KY "Kirghiz"
    LA "Latin"
    LN "Lingala"
    LO "Laothian"
    LT "Lithuanian"
    LV "Latvian" "Lettish"
    MG "Malagasy"
    MI "Maori"
    MK "Macedonian"
    ML "Malayalam"
    MN "Mongolian"
    MO "Moldavian"
    MR "Marathi"
    MS "Malay"
    MT "Maltese"
    MY "Burmese"
    NA "Nauru"
    NE "Nepali"
    NL "Dutch"
    NO "Norwegian"
    OC "Occitan"
    OM "Oromo" "Afan"
    OR "Oriya"
    PA "Punjabi"
    PL "Polish"
    PS "Pashto" "Pushto"
    PT "Portuguese"
    QU "Quechua"
    RM "Rhaeto-Romance"
    RN "Kirundi"
    RO "Romanian"
    RU "Russian"
    RW "Kinyarwanda"
    SA "Sanskrit"
    SD "Sindhi"
    SG "Sangro"
    SH "Serbo-Croatian"
    SI "Singhalese"
    SK "Slovak"
    SL "Slovenian"
    SM "Samoan"
    SN "Shona"
    SO "Somali"
    SQ "Albanian"
    SR "Serbian"
    SS "Siswati"
    ST "Sesotho"
    SU "Sudanese"
    SV "Swedish"
    SW "Swahili"
    TA "Tamil"
    TE "Tegulu"
    TG "Tajik"
    TH "Thai"
    TI "Tigrinya"
    TK "Turkmen"
    TL "Tagalog"
    TN "Setswana"
    TO "Tonga"
    TR "Turkish"
    TS "Tsonga"
    TT "Tatar"
    TW "Twi"
    UK "Ukrainian"
    UR "Urdu"
    UZ "Uzbek"
    VI "Vietnamese"
    VO "Volapuk"
    WO "Wolof"
    XH "Xhosa"
    YO "Yoruba"
    ZH "Chinese"
    ZU "Zulu"

Document Modified August 9, 1999