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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.
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.
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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