List of ISO 639-1 codes
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ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a two-letter (639-1) and three-letter (639-2 and 639-3) lowercase abbreviation, amended in later versions of the nomenclature.
This table lists all of:
- ISO 639-1: two-letter codes, one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage
And some of:
- ISO 639-2/T: three-letter codes, for the same languages as 639-1
- ISO 639-2/B: three-letter codes, mostly the same as 639-2/T, but with some codes derived from English names rather than native names of languages (in the following table, these differing codes are highlighted in boldface)
- ISO 639-3: three-letter codes, the same as 639-2/T for languages, but with distinct codes for each variety of an ISO 639 macrolanguage
ISO language name | 639-1 | 639-2/T | 639-2/B | 639-3 | Notes |
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Abkhazian | ab | abk | abk | abk | also known as Abkhaz |
Afar | aa | aar | aar | aar | |
Afrikaans | af | afr | afr | afr | |
Akan | ak | aka | aka | aka + 2 | macrolanguage, Twi is tw /twi , Fanti is fat |
Albanian | sq | sqi | alb | sqi + 4 | macrolanguage, called "Albanian Phylozone" in 639-6 |
Amharic | am | amh | amh | amh | |
Arabic | ar | ara | ara | ara + 29 | macrolanguage, Standard Arabic is arb |
Aragonese | an | arg | arg | arg | |
Armenian | hy | hye | arm | hye | ISO 639-3 code hye is for Eastern Armenian, hyw is for Western Armenian, and xcl is for Classical Armenian |
Assamese | as | asm | asm | asm | |
Avaric | av | ava | ava | ava | also known as Avar |
Avestan | ae | ave | ave | ave | ancient |
Aymara | ay | aym | aym | aym + 2 | macrolanguage |
Azerbaijani | az | aze | aze | aze + 2 | macrolanguage, also known as Azeri |
Bambara | bm | bam | bam | bam | |
Bashkir | ba | bak | bak | bak | |
Basque | eu | eus | baq | eus | |
Belarusian | be | bel | bel | bel | |
Bengali | bn | ben | ben | ben | also known as Bangla |
Bislama | bi | bis | bis | bis | Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence. |
Bosnian | bs | bos | bos | bos | |
Breton | br | bre | bre | bre | |
Bulgarian | bg | bul | bul | bul | |
Burmese | my | mya | bur | mya | also known as Myanmar |
Catalan, Valencian | ca | cat | cat | cat | |
Chamorro | ch | cha | cha | cha | |
Chechen | ce | che | che | che | |
Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja | ny | nya | nya | nya | |
Chinese | zh | zho | chi | zho + 16 | macrolanguage |
Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic | cu | chu | chu | chu | ancient, in use by the Eastern Orthodox Church |
Chuvash | cv | chv | chv | chv | |
Cornish | kw | cor | cor | cor | |
Corsican | co | cos | cos | cos | |
Cree | cr | cre | cre | cre + 6 | macrolanguage |
Croatian | hr | hrv | hrv | hrv | |
Czech | cs | ces | cze | ces | |
Danish | da | dan | dan | dan | |
Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian | dv | div | div | div | |
Dutch, Flemish | nl | nld | dut | nld | Flemish is not to be confused with the closely related West Flemish which is referred to as Vlaams (Dutch for "Flemish") in ISO 639-3 and has the ISO 639-3 code vls |
Dzongkha | dz | dzo | dzo | dzo | |
English | en | eng | eng | eng | |
Esperanto | eo | epo | epo | epo | constructed, initially by L.L. Zamenhof in 1887 |
Estonian | et | est | est | est + 2 | macrolanguage |
Ewe | ee | ewe | ewe | ewe | |
Faroese | fo | fao | fao | fao | |
Fijian | fj | fij | fij | fij | |
Finnish | fi | fin | fin | fin | |
French | fr | fra | fre | fra | |
Western Frisian | fy | fry | fry | fry | also known as Frisian |
Fulah | ff | ful | ful | ful + 9 | macrolanguage, also known as Fula |
Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic | gd | gla | gla | gla | |
Galician | gl | glg | glg | glg | |
Ganda | lg | lug | lug | lug | |
Georgian | ka | kat | geo | kat | |
German | de | deu | ger | deu | |
Greek, Modern (1453–) | el | ell | gre | ell | for Ancient Greek, use the ISO 639-3 code grc |
Kalaallisut, Greenlandic | kl | kal | kal | kal | |
Guarani | gn | grn | grn | grn + 5 | macrolanguage |
Gujarati | gu | guj | guj | guj | |
Haitian, Haitian Creole | ht | hat | hat | hat | |
Hausa | ha | hau | hau | hau | |
Hebrew | he | heb | heb | heb | Modern Hebrew. Code changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, iw .[1] |
Herero | hz | her | her | her | |
Hindi | hi | hin | hin | hin | |
Hiri Motu | ho | hmo | hmo | hmo | |
Hungarian | hu | hun | hun | hun | |
Icelandic | is | isl | ice | isl | |
Ido | io | ido | ido | ido | constructed by De Beaufront, 1907, as variation of Esperanto |
Igbo | ig | ibo | ibo | ibo | |
Indonesian | id | ind | ind | ind | covered by macrolanguage ms /msa . Changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, in .[1] |
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) | ia | ina | ina | ina | constructed by the International Auxiliary Language Association |
Interlingue, Occidental | ie | ile | ile | ile | constructed by Edgar de Wahl, first published in 1922 |
Inuktitut | iu | iku | iku | iku + 2 | macrolanguage |
Inupiaq | ik | ipk | ipk | ipk + 2 | macrolanguage |
Irish | ga | gle | gle | gle | |
Italian | it | ita | ita | ita | |
Japanese | ja | jpn | jpn | jpn | |
Javanese | jv | jav | jav | jav | |
Kannada | kn | kan | kan | kan | |
Kanuri | kr | kau | kau | kau + 3 | macrolanguage |
Kashmiri | ks | kas | kas | kas | |
Kazakh | kk | kaz | kaz | kaz | |
Central Khmer | km | khm | khm | khm | also known as Khmer or Cambodian |
Kikuyu, Gikuyu | ki | kik | kik | kik | |
Kinyarwanda | rw | kin | kin | kin | |
Kirghiz, Kyrgyz | ky | kir | kir | kir | |
Komi | kv | kom | kom | kom + 2 | macrolanguage |
Kongo | kg | kon | kon | kon + 3 | macrolanguage |
Korean | ko | kor | kor | kor | |
Kuanyama, Kwanyama | kj | kua | kua | kua | |
Kurdish | ku | kur | kur | kur + 3 | macrolanguage |
Lao | lo | lao | lao | lao | |
Latin | la | lat | lat | lat | ancient |
Latvian | lv | lav | lav | lav + 2 | macrolanguage |
Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish | li | lim | lim | lim | |
Lingala | ln | lin | lin | lin | |
Lithuanian | lt | lit | lit | lit | |
Luba-Katanga | lu | lub | lub | lub | also known as Luba-Shaba |
Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch | lb | ltz | ltz | ltz | |
Macedonian | mk | mkd | mac | mkd | |
Malagasy | mg | mlg | mlg | mlg + 11 | macrolanguage |
Malay | ms | msa | may | msa + 36 | macrolanguage, Standard Malay is zsm , Indonesian is id /ind |
Malayalam | ml | mal | mal | mal | |
Maltese | mt | mlt | mlt | mlt | |
Manx | gv | glv | glv | glv | |
Maori | mi | mri | mao | mri | also known as Māori |
Marathi | mr | mar | mar | mar | also known as Marāṭhī |
Marshallese | mh | mah | mah | mah | |
Mongolian | mn | mon | mon | mon + 2 | macrolanguage |
Nauru | na | nau | nau | nau | also known as Nauruan |
Navajo, Navaho | nv | nav | nav | nav | |
North Ndebele | nd | nde | nde | nde | also known as Northern Ndebele |
South Ndebele | nr | nbl | nbl | nbl | also known as Southern Ndebele |
Ndonga | ng | ndo | ndo | ndo | |
Nepali | ne | nep | nep | nep + 2 | macrolanguage |
Norwegian | no | nor | nor | nor + 2 | macrolanguage, Bokmål is nb /nob , Nynorsk is nn /nno |
Norwegian Bokmål | nb | nob | nob | nob | covered by macrolanguage no /nor |
Norwegian Nynorsk | nn | nno | nno | nno | covered by macrolanguage no /nor |
Sichuan Yi, Nuosu | ii | iii | iii | iii | standard form of the Yi languages |
Occitan | oc | oci | oci | oci | |
Ojibwa | oj | oji | oji | oji + 7 | macrolanguage, also known as Ojibwe |
Oriya | or | ori | ori | ori + 2 | macrolanguage, also known as Odia |
Oromo | om | orm | orm | orm + 4 | macrolanguage |
Ossetian, Ossetic | os | oss | oss | oss | |
Pali | pi | pli | pli | pli | ancient, also known as Pāli |
Pashto, Pushto | ps | pus | pus | pus + 3 | macrolanguage |
Persian | fa | fas | per | fas + 2 | macrolanguage, also known as Farsi |
Polish | pl | pol | pol | pol | |
Portuguese | pt | por | por | por | |
Punjabi, Panjabi | pa | pan | pan | pan | |
Quechua | qu | que | que | que + 43 | macrolanguage |
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan | ro | ron | rum | ron | the identifiers mo and mol for Moldavian are deprecated. They will not be assigned to different items, and recordings using these identifiers will not be invalid. |
Romansh | rm | roh | roh | roh | |
Rundi | rn | run | run | run | also known as Kirundi |
Russian | ru | rus | rus | rus | |
Northern Sami | se | sme | sme | sme | |
Samoan | sm | smo | smo | smo | |
Sango | sg | sag | sag | sag | |
Sanskrit | sa | san | san | san | ancient |
Sardinian | sc | srd | srd | srd + 4 | macrolanguage |
Serbian | sr | srp | srp | srp | the ISO 639-2/T code srp deprecated the ISO 639-2/B code scc [2] |
Shona | sn | sna | sna | sna | |
Sindhi | sd | snd | snd | snd | |
Sinhala, Sinhalese | si | sin | sin | sin | |
Slovak | sk | slk | slo | slk | |
Slovenian | sl | slv | slv | slv | also known as Slovene |
Somali | so | som | som | som | |
Southern Sotho | st | sot | sot | sot | |
Spanish, Castilian | es | spa | spa | spa | |
Sundanese | su | sun | sun | sun | |
Swahili | sw | swa | swa | swa + 2 | macrolanguage |
Swati | ss | ssw | ssw | ssw | also known as Swazi |
Swedish | sv | swe | swe | swe | |
Tagalog | tl | tgl | tgl | tgl | note: Filipino (Pilipino) has the code fil |
Tahitian | ty | tah | tah | tah | one of the Reo Mā`ohi (languages of French Polynesia)[3] |
Tajik | tg | tgk | tgk | tgk | |
Tamil | ta | tam | tam | tam | |
Tatar | tt | tat | tat | tat | |
Telugu | te | tel | tel | tel | |
Thai | th | tha | tha | tha | |
Tibetan | bo | bod | tib | bod | also known as Standard Tibetan |
Tigrinya | ti | tir | tir | tir | |
Tonga (Tonga Islands) | to | ton | ton | ton | also known as Tongan |
Tsonga | ts | tso | tso | tso | |
Tswana | tn | tsn | tsn | tsn | |
Turkish | tr | tur | tur | tur | |
Turkmen | tk | tuk | tuk | tuk | |
Twi | tw | twi | twi | twi | covered by macrolanguage ak /aka |
Uighur, Uyghur | ug | uig | uig | uig | |
Ukrainian | uk | ukr | ukr | ukr | |
Urdu | ur | urd | urd | urd | |
Uzbek | uz | uzb | uzb | uzb + 2 | macrolanguage |
Venda | ve | ven | ven | ven | |
Vietnamese | vi | vie | vie | vie | |
Volapük | vo | vol | vol | vol | constructed |
Walloon | wa | wln | wln | wln | |
Welsh | cy | cym | wel | cym | |
Wolof | wo | wol | wol | wol | |
Xhosa | xh | xho | xho | xho | |
Yiddish | yi | yid | yid | yid + 2 | macrolanguage. Changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, ji .[1] |
Yoruba | yo | yor | yor | yor | |
Zhuang, Chuang | za | zha | zha | zha + 16 | macrolanguage |
Zulu | zu | zul | zul | zul |