# $FreeBSD: src/share/misc/iso639,v 1.2.2.1 2002/02/06 20:59:18 wollman Exp $ # $DragonFly: src/share/misc/iso639,v 1.4 2008/11/13 21:09:48 swildner Exp $ # # ISO 639-2 language codes # # From http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ : # # The Library of Congress has been designated the ISO 639-2/RA for the # purpose of processing requests for alpha-3 language codes comprising the # International Standard, Codes for the representation of names of # languages -- Part 2: alpha-3 code. The ISO 639-2/RA receives and reviews # applications for requesting new language codes and for the change of # existing ones according to criteria indicated in the standard. It # maintains an accurate list of information associated with registered # language codes, processes updates of registered language codes, and # distributes them on a regular basis to subscribers and other parties. # # This is the official site of the ISO 639-2 Registration Authority and thus # is the only one authorized by ISO. If you have questions concerning ISO # 639-2 please contact us at: # # Library of Congress # Network Development and MARC Standards Office # Washington, DC 20540-4402 # E-mail: iso639-2@loc.gov # Phone: +1 202 707 6237 # FAX: +1 202 707 0115 # # For general discussion about ISO language codes, write to: iso639@dkuug.dk # a2: ISO 639-1 Alpha-2 code # bib: ISO 639-2/B bibliographic code # term: ISO 639-2/B terminology code # a2 bib term name aa aar aar Afar ab abk abk Abkhazian ace ace Achinese ach ach Acoli ada ada Adangme ady ady Adyghe; Adygei afa afa Afro-Asiatic languages afh afh Afrihili af afr afr Afrikaans ain ain Ainu ak aka aka Akan akk akk Akkadian sq alb sqi Albanian ale ale Aleut alg alg Algonquian languages alt alt Southern Altai am amh amh Amharic ang ang English, Old (ca.450-1100) anp anp Angika apa apa Apache languages ar ara ara Arabic arc arc Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) an arg arg Aragonese hy arm hye Armenian arn arn Mapudungun; Mapuche arp arp Arapaho art art Artificial languages arw arw Arawak as asm asm Assamese ast ast Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese ath ath Athapascan languages aus aus Australian languages av ava ava Avaric ae ave ave Avestan awa awa Awadhi ay aym aym Aymara az aze aze Azerbaijani bad bad Banda languages bai bai Bamileke languages ba bak bak Bashkir bal bal Baluchi bm bam bam Bambara ban ban Balinese eu baq eus Basque bas bas Basa bat bat Baltic languages bej bej Beja; Bedawiyet be bel bel Belarusian bem bem Bemba bn ben ben Bengali ber ber Berber languages bho bho Bhojpuri bh bih bih Bihari languages bik bik Bikol bin bin Bini; Edo bi bis bis Bislama bla bla Siksika bnt bnt Bantu languages bs bos bos Bosnian bra bra Braj br bre bre Breton btk btk Batak languages bua bua Buriat bug bug Buginese bg bul bul Bulgarian my bur mya Burmese byn byn Blin; Bilin cad cad Caddo cai cai Central American Indian languages car car Galibi Carib ca cat cat Catalan; Valencian cau cau Caucasian languages ceb ceb Cebuano cel cel Celtic languages ch cha cha Chamorro chb chb Chibcha ce che che Chechen chg chg Chagatai zh chi zho Chinese chk chk Chuukese chm chm Mari chn chn Chinook jargon cho cho Choctaw chp chp Chipewyan; Dene Suline chr chr Cherokee cu chu chu Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic cv chv chv Chuvash chy chy Cheyenne cmc cmc Chamic languages cnr cnr Montenegrin cop cop Coptic kw cor cor Cornish co cos cos Corsican cpe cpe Creoles and pidgins, English based cpf cpf Creoles and pidgins, French-based cpp cpp Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based cr cre cre Cree crh crh Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish crp crp Creoles and pidgins csb csb Kashubian cus cus Cushitic languages cs cze ces Czech dak dak Dakota da dan dan Danish dar dar Dargwa day day Land Dayak languages del del Delaware den den Slave (Athapascan) dgr dgr Dogrib din din Dinka dv div div Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian doi doi Dogri dra dra Dravidian languages dsb dsb Lower Sorbian dua dua Duala dum dum Dutch, Middle (ca.1050-1350) nl dut nld Dutch; Flemish dyu dyu Dyula dz dzo dzo Dzongkha efi efi Efik egy egy Egyptian (Ancient) eka eka Ekajuk elx elx Elamite en eng eng English enm enm English, Middle (1100-1500) eo epo epo Esperanto et est est Estonian ee ewe ewe Ewe ewo ewo Ewondo fan fan Fang fo fao fao Faroese fat fat Fanti fj fij fij Fijian fil fil Filipino; Pilipino fi fin fin Finnish fiu fiu Finno-Ugrian languages fon fon Fon fr fre fra French frm frm French, Middle (ca.1400-1600) fro fro French, Old (842-ca.1400) frr frr Northern Frisian frs frs Eastern Frisian fy fry fry Western Frisian ff ful ful Fulah fur fur Friulian gaa gaa Ga gay gay Gayo gba gba Gbaya gem gem Germanic languages ka geo kat Georgian de ger deu German gez gez Geez gil gil Gilbertese gd gla gla Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic ga gle gle Irish gl glg glg Galician gv glv glv Manx gmh gmh German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) goh goh German, Old High (ca.750-1050) gon gon Gondi gor gor Gorontalo got got Gothic grb grb Grebo grc grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453) el gre ell Greek, Modern (1453-) gn grn grn Guarani gsw gsw Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian gu guj guj Gujarati gwi gwi Gwich'in hai hai Haida ht hat hat Haitian; Haitian Creole ha hau hau Hausa haw haw Hawaiian he heb heb Hebrew hz her her Herero hil hil Hiligaynon him him Himachali languages; Western Pahari languages hi hin hin Hindi hit hit Hittite hmn hmn Hmong; Mong ho hmo hmo Hiri Motu hr hrv hrv Croatian hsb hsb Upper Sorbian hu hun hun Hungarian hup hup Hupa iba iba Iban ig ibo ibo Igbo is ice isl Icelandic io ido ido Ido ii iii iii Sichuan Yi; Nuosu ijo ijo Ijo languages iu iku iku Inuktitut ie ile ile Interlingue; Occidental ilo ilo Iloko ia ina ina Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) inc inc Indic languages id ind ind Indonesian ine ine Indo-European languages inh inh Ingush ik ipk ipk Inupiaq ira ira Iranian languages iro iro Iroquoian languages it ita ita Italian jv jav jav Javanese jbo jbo Lojban ja jpn jpn Japanese jpr jpr Judeo-Persian jrb jrb Judeo-Arabic kaa kaa Kara-Kalpak kab kab Kabyle kac kac Kachin; Jingpho kl kal kal Kalaallisut; Greenlandic kam kam Kamba kn kan kan Kannada kar kar Karen languages ks kas kas Kashmiri kr kau kau Kanuri kaw kaw Kawi kk kaz kaz Kazakh kbd kbd Kabardian kha kha Khasi khi khi Khoisan languages km khm khm Central Khmer kho kho Khotanese; Sakan ki kik kik Kikuyu; Gikuyu rw kin kin Kinyarwanda ky kir kir Kirghiz; Kyrgyz kmb kmb Kimbundu kok kok Konkani kv kom kom Komi kg kon kon Kongo ko kor kor Korean kos kos Kosraean kpe kpe Kpelle krc krc Karachay-Balkar krl krl Karelian kro kro Kru languages kru kru Kurukh kj kua kua Kuanyama; Kwanyama kum kum Kumyk ku kur kur Kurdish kut kut Kutenai lad lad Ladino lah lah Lahnda lam lam Lamba lo lao lao Lao la lat lat Latin lv lav lav Latvian lez lez Lezghian li lim lim Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish ln lin lin Lingala lt lit lit Lithuanian lol lol Mongo loz loz Lozi lb ltz ltz Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch lua lua Luba-Lulua lu lub lub Luba-Katanga lg lug lug Ganda lui lui Luiseno lun lun Lunda luo luo Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) lus lus Lushai mk mac mkd Macedonian mad mad Madurese mag mag Magahi mh mah mah Marshallese mai mai Maithili mak mak Makasar ml mal mal Malayalam man man Mandingo mi mao mri Maori map map Austronesian languages mr mar mar Marathi mas mas Masai ms may msa Malay mdf mdf Moksha mdr mdr Mandar men men Mende mga mga Irish, Middle (900-1200) mic mic Mi'kmaq; Micmac min min Minangkabau mis mis Uncoded languages mkh mkh Mon-Khmer languages mg mlg mlg Malagasy mt mlt mlt Maltese mnc mnc Manchu mni mni Manipuri mno mno Manobo languages moh moh Mohawk mn mon mon Mongolian mos mos Mossi mul mul Multiple languages mun mun Munda languages mus mus Creek mwl mwl Mirandese mwr mwr Marwari myn myn Mayan languages myv myv Erzya nah nah Nahuatl languages nai nai North American Indian languages nap nap Neapolitan na nau nau Nauru nv nav nav Navajo; Navaho nr nbl nbl Ndebele, South; South Ndebele nd nde nde Ndebele, North; North Ndebele ng ndo ndo Ndonga nds nds Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low ne nep nep Nepali new new Nepal Bhasa; Newari nia nia Nias nic nic Niger-Kordofanian languages niu niu Niuean nn nno nno Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian nb nob nob Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål nog nog Nogai non non Norse, Old no nor nor Norwegian nqo nqo N'Ko nso nso Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho nub nub Nubian languages nwc nwc Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa ny nya nya Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja nym nym Nyamwezi nyn nyn Nyankole nyo nyo Nyoro nzi nzi Nzima oc oci oci Occitan (post 1500) oj oji oji Ojibwa or ori ori Oriya om orm orm Oromo osa osa Osage os oss oss Ossetian; Ossetic ota ota Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) oto oto Otomian languages paa paa Papuan languages pag pag Pangasinan pal pal Pahlavi pam pam Pampanga; Kapampangan pa pan pan Panjabi; Punjabi pap pap Papiamento pau pau Palauan peo peo Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.) fa per fas Persian phi phi Philippine languages phn phn Phoenician pi pli pli Pali pl pol pol Polish pon pon Pohnpeian pt por por Portuguese pra pra Prakrit languages pro pro Provençal, Old (to 1500); Occitan, Old (to 1500) ps pus pus Pushto; Pashto qaa-qtz qaa-qtz Reserved for local use qu que que Quechua raj raj Rajasthani rap rap Rapanui rar rar Rarotongan; Cook Islands Maori roa roa Romance languages rm roh roh Romansh rom rom Romany ro rum ron Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan rn run run Rundi rup rup Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian ru rus rus Russian sad sad Sandawe sg sag sag Sango sah sah Yakut sai sai South American Indian languages sal sal Salishan languages sam sam Samaritan Aramaic sa san san Sanskrit sas sas Sasak sat sat Santali scn scn Sicilian sco sco Scots sel sel Selkup sem sem Semitic languages sga sga Irish, Old (to 900) sgn sgn Sign Languages shn shn Shan sid sid Sidamo si sin sin Sinhala; Sinhalese sio sio Siouan languages sit sit Sino-Tibetan languages sla sla Slavic languages sk slo slk Slovak sl slv slv Slovenian sma sma Southern Sami se sme sme Northern Sami smi smi Sami languages smj smj Lule Sami smn smn Inari Sami sm smo smo Samoan sms sms Skolt Sami sn sna sna Shona sd snd snd Sindhi snk snk Soninke sog sog Sogdian so som som Somali son son Songhai languages st sot sot Sotho, Southern es spa spa Spanish; Castilian sc srd srd Sardinian srn srn Sranan Tongo sr srp srp Serbian srr srr Serer ssa ssa Nilo-Saharan languages ss ssw ssw Swati suk suk Sukuma su sun sun Sundanese sus sus Susu sux sux Sumerian sw swa swa Swahili sv swe swe Swedish syc syc Classical Syriac syr syr Syriac ty tah tah Tahitian tai tai Tai languages ta tam tam Tamil tt tat tat Tatar te tel tel Telugu tem tem Timne ter ter Tereno tet tet Tetum tg tgk tgk Tajik tl tgl tgl Tagalog th tha tha Thai bo tib bod Tibetan tig tig Tigre ti tir tir Tigrinya tiv tiv Tiv tkl tkl Tokelau tlh tlh Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol tli tli Tlingit tmh tmh Tamashek tog tog Tonga (Nyasa) to ton ton Tonga (Tonga Islands) tpi tpi Tok Pisin tsi tsi Tsimshian tn tsn tsn Tswana ts tso tso Tsonga tk tuk tuk Turkmen tum tum Tumbuka tup tup Tupi languages tr tur tur Turkish tut tut Altaic languages tvl tvl Tuvalu tw twi twi Twi tyv tyv Tuvinian udm udm Udmurt uga uga Ugaritic ug uig uig Uighur; Uyghur uk ukr ukr Ukrainian umb umb Umbundu und und Undetermined ur urd urd Urdu uz uzb uzb Uzbek vai vai Vai ve ven ven Venda vi vie vie Vietnamese vo vol vol Volapük vot vot Votic wak wak Wakashan languages wal wal Wolaitta; Wolaytta war war Waray was was Washo cy wel cym Welsh wen wen Sorbian languages wa wln wln Walloon wo wol wol Wolof xal xal Kalmyk; Oirat xh xho xho Xhosa yao yao Yao yap yap Yapese yi yid yid Yiddish yo yor yor Yoruba ypk ypk Yupik languages zap zap Zapotec zbl zbl Blissymbols; Blissymbolics; Bliss zen zen Zenaga zgh zgh Standard Moroccan Tamazight za zha zha Zhuang; Chuang znd znd Zande languages zu zul zul Zulu zun zun Zuni zxx zxx No linguistic content; Not applicable zza zza Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki