ISO 639
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
See also: language families and languages, list of languages, list of official languages
The following 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
kin rw Kinyarwanda
kir ky Kirghiz
kom 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
A
abk ab Abkhazian
ace Achinese
ach Acoli
ada Adangme
ady Adyghe; Adygei
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
arg an Aragonese
arn Araucanian
arp Arapaho
arw Arawak
arm/hye hy Armenian
art Artificial (Other)
asm as Assamese
ast Asturian
ath Athapascan languages
map Austronesian (Other)
ava Avaric
ave Avestan
awa Awadhi
aym ay Aymara
aze az Azerbaijani
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
bra Braj
bre br Breton
bug Buginese
bul bg Bulgarian
bua Buriat
bur/mya my Burmese
bel be Byelorussian
C
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)
crh Crimean Tatar
scr hr Croatian
cze/ces cz Czech
D
dak Dakota
dan da Danish
dar Dargwa
del Delaware
din Dinka
div Divehi
doi Dogri
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-Ugrian languages (Other)
fon Fon
fra/fre fr French
frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
fro French, Old (842- ca. 1400)
fry fy Frisian
ful Fulah
G
gaa Ga
gla gd Gaelic (Scots)
glg gl Gallegan
lug lg Ganda
gay Gayo
gez Geez
geo/kat ka Georgian
ger/deu de German
gmh German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
goh German, Old High (ca. 750 - 1050)
gem Germanic languages (Other)
gil 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; 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 Iloko
inc Indic languages (Other)
ine Indo-European languages (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 Kalaallisut; Greenlandic
xal Kalmyk
kam Kamba
kan kn Kannada
kau kr Kanuri
kaa Kara-Kalpak
krc Karachay-Balkar
kar Karen
kas ks Kashmiri
csb Kashubian
kaw Kawi
kaz kk Kazakh
kha Khasi
khm km Khmer
khi Khoisan (Other)
kho Khotanese
kik Kikuyu
L
lad Ladino
lah Lahnda
lam Lamba
lao lo Lao
lat la Latin
lav lv Latvian
ltz Letzeburgesch
lez Lezghian
lin ln Lingala
lit lt Lithuanian
jbo Lojban
log pd Low German
loz Lozi
lub Luba-Katanga
lui Luiseno
smj Lule Sami
lun Lunda
luo Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
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
man Mandingo
mni Manipuri
mno Manobo languages
glv gv Manx
mao/mri mi Maori
mar mr Marathi
chm Mari
mah mh Marshall
mwr Marwari
mas Masai
myn Mayan languages
men Mende
mic Mi'kmaq
min Minangkabau
mis Miscellaneous (Other)
moh Mohawk
mdf Moksha
mol mo Moldavian language
mkh Mon-Kmer (Other)
lol Mongo
mon mn Mongolian
mos Mossi
mul Multiple languages (several languages used)
mun Munda languages
N
nah Nahuatl
nau na Nauru
nav nv Navajo
nde nd Ndebele, North
nbl nr Ndebele, South
ndo ng Ndongo
nep ne Nepali
new Newari
nic Niger-Kordofanian languages (Other)
ssa Nilo-Saharan languages (Other)
niu Niuean
nog Nogai
non Norse, Old
nai North American Indian languages (Other)
nor no Norwegian
nbo nb Norwegian Bokmål
nno nn Norwegian (Nynorsk)
nub Nubian languages
nym Nyamwezi
nya ny Nyanja
nyn Nyankole
nyo Nyoro
nzi Nzima
O
oci oc Occitan (post 1500); Provençal
oji oj Ojibwa
ori or Oriya
orm om Oromo
osa Osage
oss os Ossetian
oto Otomian languages
P
pal Pahlavi
pau Palauan
pli pi Pali
pam Pampanga
pag Pangasinan
pan pa Panjabi
pap Papiamento
paa Papuan-Australian languages (Other)
per/fas 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
Q
que qu Quechua
R
roh rm Rhaeto-Romance
raj Rajasthani
rar Rarotongan
roa Romance languages (Other)
rum/ron ro Romanian
rom Romany
run rn Rundi
rus ru Russian
S
sal Salishan languages
sam Samaritan Aramaic
smi Saami languages
smo sm Samoan
sad Sandawe
sag sg Sango
san sa Sanskrit
srd Sardinian
sco Scots
sel Selkup
sem Semitic languages (Other)
scc/srp sr Serbian
(sh) Serbo-Croatian
srr Serer
shn Shan
sna sn Shona
sid Sidamo
bla Siksika
snd sd Sindhi
sin si Singhalese
sit - Sino-Tibetan languages (Other)
sio Siouan languages
sla Slavic languages (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 languages
nso Northern Sotho language
sot st Southern Sotho language
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
tem Timne
tiv Tivi
tli Tlingit
tog Tonga (Nyasa)
ton to Tongan (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
U
udm Udmurt
uga Ugaritic
uig ug Uighur
ukr uk Ukrainian
umb Umbundu
und Undetermined (language or languages cannot be identified)
urd ur Urdu
uzb uz Uzbek
V
vai Vai
ven Venda
vie vi Vietnamese
vol vo Volapük
vot Votic
W
wak Wakashan languages
wal Walamo
wln wa Walloon
war Waray
was Washo
X
xho xh Xhosa
Y
sah Yakut
yao Yao
yap Yap
yid yi Yiddish
yor yo Yoruba
Z
zap Zapotec
zen Zenaga
zha za Zhuang
zul zu Zulu
zun Zuni
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