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A Language Codes

The ISO 639 standard defines two-letter codes for many languages, and three-letter codes for more rarely used languages. All abbreviations for languages used in the Translation Project should come from this standard.

A.1 Usual Language Codes

For the commonly used languages, the ISO 639-1 standard defines two-letter codes.

‘aa’
Afar.
‘ab’
Abkhazian.
‘ad’
Adangme.
‘ae’
Avestan.
‘af’
Afrikaans.
‘ak’
Akan.
‘am’
Amharic.
‘an’
Aragonese.
‘ar’
Arabic.
‘as’
Assamese.
‘av’
Avaric.
‘ay’
Aymara.
‘az’
Azerbaijani.
‘ba’
Bashkir.
‘be’
Byelorussian; Belarusian.
‘bg’
Bulgarian.
‘bh’
Bihari.
‘bi’
Bislama.
‘bm’
Bambara.
‘bn’
Bengali; Bangla.
‘bo’
Tibetan.
‘br’
Breton.
‘bs’
Bosnian.
‘ca’
Catalan.
‘ce’
Chechen.
‘ch’
Chamorro.
‘co’
Corsican.
‘cr’
Cree.
‘cs’
Czech.
‘cu’
Church Slavic.
‘cv’
Chuvash.
‘cy’
Welsh.
‘da’
Danish.
‘de’
German.
‘dv’
Divehi; Maldivian.
‘dz’
Dzongkha; Bhutani.
‘ee’
'Ew'e.
‘el’
Greek.
‘en’
English.
‘eo’
Esperanto.
‘es’
Spanish.
‘et’
Estonian.
‘eu’
Basque.
‘fa’
Persian.
‘ff’
Fulah.
‘fi’
Finnish.
‘fj’
Fijian; Fiji.
‘fo’
Faroese.
‘fr’
French.
‘fy’
Western Frisian.
‘ga’
Irish.
‘gd’
Scots; Gaelic.
‘gl’
Galician.
‘gn’
Guarani.
‘gu’
Gujarati.
‘gv’
Manx.
‘ha’
Hausa.
‘he’
Hebrew (formerly iw).
‘hi’
Hindi.
‘ho’
Hiri Motu.
‘hr’
Croatian.
‘ht’
Haitian; Haitian Creole.
‘hu’
Hungarian.
‘hy’
Armenian.
‘hz’
Herero.
‘ia’
Interlingua.
‘id’
Indonesian (formerly in).
‘ie’
Interlingue.
‘ig’
Igbo.
‘ii’
Sichuan Yi.
‘ik’
Inupiak; Inupiaq.
‘io’
Ido.
‘is’
Icelandic.
‘it’
Italian.
‘iu’
Inuktitut.
‘ja’
Japanese.
‘jv’
Javanese.
‘ka’
Georgian.
‘kg’
Kongo.
‘ki’
Kikuyu; Gikuyu.
‘kj’
Kuanyama; Kwanyama.
‘kk’
Kazakh.
‘kl’
Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.
‘km’
Khmer; Cambodian.
‘kn’
Kannada.
‘ko’
Korean.
‘kr’
Kanuri.
‘ks’
Kashmiri.
‘ku’
Kurdish.
‘kv’
Komi.
‘kw’
Cornish.
‘ky’
Kirghiz.
‘la’
Latin.
‘lb’
Letzeburgesch; Luxembourgish.
‘lg’
Ganda.
‘li’
Limburgish; Limburger; Limburgan.
‘ln’
Lingala.
‘lo’
Lao; Laotian.
‘lt’
Lithuanian.
‘lu’
Luba-Katanga.
‘lv’
Latvian; Lettish.
‘mg’
Malagasy.
‘mh’
Marshallese.
‘mi’
Maori.
‘mk’
Macedonian.
‘ml’
Malayalam.
‘mn’
Mongolian.
‘mo’
Moldavian.
‘mr’
Marathi.
‘ms’
Malay.
‘mt’
Maltese.
‘my’
Burmese.
‘na’
Nauru.
‘nb’
Norwegian Bokmål.
‘nd’
Ndebele, North.
‘ne’
Nepali.
‘ng’
Ndonga.
‘nl’
Dutch.
‘nn’
Norwegian Nynorsk.
‘no’
Norwegian.
‘nr’
Ndebele, South.
‘nv’
Navajo; Navaho.
‘ny’
Chichewa; Nyanja.
‘oc’
Occitan; Provençal.
‘oj’
Ojibwa.
‘om’
(Afan) Oromo.
‘or’
Oriya.
‘os’
Ossetian; Ossetic.
‘pa’
Panjabi; Punjabi.
‘pi’
Pali.
‘pl’
Polish.
‘ps’
Pashto, Pushto.
‘pt’
Portuguese.
‘qu’
Quechua.
‘rm’
Rhaeto-Romance.
‘rn’
Rundi; Kirundi.
‘ro’
Romanian.
‘ru’
Russian.
‘rw’
Kinyarwanda.
‘sa’
Sanskrit.
‘sc’
Sardinian.
‘sd’
Sindhi.
‘se’
Northern Sami.
‘sg’
Sango; Sangro.
‘si’
Sinhala; Sinhalese.
‘sk’
Slovak.
‘sl’
Slovenian.
‘sm’
Samoan.
‘sn’
Shona.
‘so’
Somali.
‘sq’
Albanian.
‘sr’
Serbian.
‘ss’
Swati; Siswati.
‘st’
Sesotho; Sotho, Southern.
‘su’
Sundanese.
‘sv’
Swedish.
‘sw’
Swahili.
‘ta’
Tamil.
‘te’
Telugu.
‘tg’
Tajik.
‘th’
Thai.
‘ti’
Tigrinya.
‘tk’
Turkmen.
‘tl’
Tagalog.
‘tn’
Tswana; Setswana.
‘to’
Tonga.
‘tr’
Turkish.
‘ts’
Tsonga.
‘tt’
Tatar.
‘tw’
Twi.
‘ty’
Tahitian.
‘ug’
Uighur.
‘uk’
Ukrainian.
‘ur’
Urdu.
‘uz’
Uzbek.
‘ve’
Venda.
‘vi’
Vietnamese.
‘vo’
Volapük; Volapuk.
‘wa’
Walloon.
‘wo’
Wolof.
‘xh’
Xhosa.
‘yi’
Yiddish (formerly ji).
‘yo’
Yoruba.
‘za’
Zhuang.
‘zh’
Chinese.
‘zu’
Zulu.

A.2 Rare Language Codes

For rarely used languages, the ISO 639-2 standard defines three-letter codes. Here is the current list, reduced to only living languages with at least one million of speakers.

‘ace’
Achinese.
‘awa’
Awadhi.
‘bad’
Banda.
‘bal’
Baluchi.
‘ban’
Balinese.
‘bem’
Bemba.
‘bho’
Bhojpuri.
‘bik’
Bikol.
‘bin’
Bini.
‘btk’
Batak (Indonesia).
‘bug’
Buginese.
‘ceb’
Cebuano.
‘din’
Dinka.
‘doi’
Dogri.
‘fil’
Filipino; Pilipino.
‘fon’
Fon.
‘gon’
Gondi.
‘gsw’
Alemani; Swiss German.
‘hil’
Hiligaynon.
‘hmn’
Hmong.
‘ilo’
Iloko.
‘kab’
Kabyle.
‘kam’
Kamba.
‘kbd’
Kabardian.
‘kmb’
Kimbundu.
‘kok’
Konkani.
‘kru’
Kurukh.
‘lua’
Luba-Lulua.
‘luo’
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania).
‘mad’
Madurese.
‘mag’
Magahi.
‘mai’
Maithili.
‘mak’
Makasar.
‘man’
Mandingo.
‘men’
Mende.
‘min’
Minangkabau.
‘mni’
Manipuri.
‘mos’
Mossi.
‘mwr’
Marwari.
‘nap’
Neapolitan.
‘nso’
Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho.
‘nym’
Nyamwezi.
‘nyn’
Nyankole.
‘pag’
Pangasinan.
‘pam’
Pampanga.
‘raj’
Rajasthani.
‘sas’
Sasak.
‘sat’
Santali.
‘scn’
Sicilian.
‘shn’
Shan.
‘sid’
Sidamo.
‘srr’
Serer.
‘suk’
Sukuma.
‘sus’
Susu.
‘tem’
Timne.
‘tiv’
Tiv.
‘tum’
Tumbuka.
‘umb’
Umbundu.
‘wal’
Walamo.
‘war’
Waray.
‘yao’
Yao.


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