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’
- Éwé.
- ‘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.