ISO 639
ISO 639 is an international standard which lists short codes for language names.
From the ISO official website there are two items for ISO 639:
In other words, there are two-letter codes and three-letter codes (sorted by language name in the third column!). For 22 languages exist two 3-letter-codes. The first is bibliographic (ISO 639-1/B) the second for terminological (ISO 639-2/T) use.
See also: language families and languages, list of languages, list of official languages
Table of contents
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 E
6 F
7 G
8 H
9 I
10 J
11 K
12 L
13 M
14 N
15 O
16 P
17 Q
18 R
19 S
20 T
21 U
22 V
23 W
24 X
25 Y
26 Z
1 External links
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 Artifical (Other)
asm as Assamese
ast Asturian[?]
ath Athapascan languages[?]
map Austronesian (Other)
ava Avaric[?]
ave Avestan
awa Awadhi[?]
aym ay Aymara
aze az Azerbaijani
nah Aztec
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 be 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 cs 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 - 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
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[?]
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
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 (language´s status discussed)
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 Micmac[?]
min Minangkabau
mis Miscellaneous (Other)
moh Mohawk
mdf Moksha
mol mo Moldavian
mkh Mon-Kmer[?] (Other)
lol Mongo[?]
mon mn Mongolian
mos Mossi[?]
mul Multiple languages (several languages used)
mun Munda languages[?]
N
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 Sami 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 Tonga (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[?]
wel/cym cy Welsh
wol wo Wolof
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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