Iso 639

• ISO 639-1:2002 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 1: Alpha-2 code
• ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 2: Alpha-3 code

• ISO 639-3:2006? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages http://xml.coverpages.org/Nx74Clews-part3.pdf
• ISO 639-4:2007? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 4: Implementation guidelines and general principles for language coding
• ISO 639-5:2006? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 5: Alpha-3 code for language families and groups

ISO 639-2

mul, und) in the normativ text. Additionally a code for Miscellaneous languages (mis) is defined in the list of codes. The following incomplete list is sorted by language name in the third column.

A

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
bk	ab	Abkhazian
ce		Achinese
ch		Acholi
da		Adangme
dy		Adyghe; Adygei
ar	aa	Afar
fh		Afrihili
fr	af	Afrikaans
fa		Afro-Asiatic languages (Other)
ka	ak	Akan languages
kk		Akkadian
lb/sqi	sq	Albanian
le		Aleut
lg		Algonquian languages
ut		Altaic languages (Other)
mh	am	Amharic
pa		Apachean languages (excluding Navajo)
ra	ar	Arabic
rc		Aramaic
rg	an	Aragonese
rn		Araucanian
rp		Arapaho
rw		Arawak
rm/hye	hy	Armenian
rt		Artificial (Other)
sm	as	Assamese
st		Asturian
th		Athapascan
ap		Austronesian (Other)
va	av	Avar
ve	ae	Avestan
wa		Awadhi
ym	ay	Aymara
ze	az	Azeri

B

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
an		Balinese
at		Baltic (Other)
al		Baluchi
am	bm	Bambara
ai		Bamileke languages
ad		Banda
nt		Bantu (Other)
as		Basa
ak	ba	Bashkir
aq/eus	eu	Basque
ej		Beja
em		Bemba
en	bn	Bengali
er		Berber (Other)
ho		Bhojpuri
ih	bh	Bihari
ik		Bikol
in		Bini
is	bi	Bislama; Biche-la-mer
nt		Bikya
yn		Blin
ra		Braj
re	br	Breton
os	bs	Bosnian
ug		Buginese
ul	bg	Bulgarian
ua		Buryat
ur/mya	my	Burmese
el	be	Belarusian

C

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ad		Caddo
ar		Carib
at	ca	Catalan, Valencian
au		Caucasian (Other)
eb		Cebuano
el		Celtic (Other)
ai		Central American Indian languages (Other)
hg		Chagatai
ha	ch	Chamorro
he	ce	Chechen
hr		Cherokee
hy		Cheyenne
hb		Chibcha
ya	ny	Chichewa
hi/zho	zh	Chinese
hn		Chinook jargon
ho		Choctaw
hv	cv	Chuvash
wc		Classical Newari
op		Coptic
or	kw	Cornish
os	co	Corsican
re	cr	Cree
us		Creek
rp		Creoles and Pidgins (Other)
pe		Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
pf		Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)
pp		Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
us		Cushitic (Other)
rh		Crimean Tatar
cr	hr	Croatian
ze/ces	cs	Czech

D

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ak		Dakota
an	da	Danish
ar		Dargwa
el		Delaware
in		Dinka
iv	dv	Divehi
oi		Dogri
gr		Dogrib
ra		Dravidian (Other)
ua		Duala
ut/nld	nl	Dutch
um		Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
yu		Dyula
zo	dz	Dzongkha

E

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
fi		Efik
gy		Egyptian (Ancient)
ka		Ekajuk
lx		Elamite
ng	en	English
nm		English, Middle (ca. 1100-1500)
ng		English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
yv		Erzya
sk		Eskimo (Other)
po	eo	Esperanto
st	et	Estonian
we	ee	Ewe
wo		Ewondo

F

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
an		Fang
at		Fanti
ao	fo	Faroese
ij	fj	Fijian
il		Filipino,Pilipino added 2004-09-21
in	fi	Finnish
iu		Finno-Ugric (Other)
on		Fon
re/fra	fr	French
rm		French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
ro		French, Old (842- ca. 1400)
ry	fy	Frisian
ur		Friulian
ul	ff	Fulani

G

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
aa		Ga
la	gd	Scots Gaelic
lg	gl	Galician
ug	lg	Ganda
ay		Gayo
ez		Ge'ez
eo/kat	ka	Georgian
er/deu	de	German
mh		German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
oh		German, Old High (ca. 750 - 1050)
em		Germanic (Other)
il		Gilbertese/Kiribati
on		Gondi
ot		Gothic
rb		Grebo
rc		Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
re/ell	el	Greek, Modern (1453 -)
al	kl	Greenlandic
rn	gn	Guarani
uj	gu	Gujarati

H

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ai		Haida
at	ht	Haitian Creole
au	ha	Hausa
aw		Hawaiian
eb	he	Hebrew
er	hz	Herero
il		Hiligaynon
im		Himachali
in	hi	Hindi
mo	ho	Hiri Motu
un	hu	Hungarian
up		Hupa

I

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ba		Iban
ce/isl	is	Icelandic
do	io	Ido
bo	ig	Igbo
jo		Ijo
lo		Ilocano
mn		Inari Sami
nc		Indic (Other)
ne		Indo-European (Other)
nd	id	Indonesian
nh		Ingush
na	ia	Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
ne	ie	Interlingue
ku	iu	Inuktitut
pk	ik	Inupiak
ra		Zazaisch/Zazaki
le	ga	Irish
ga		Irish, Old (to 900)
ga		Irish, Middle (900 - 1200)
ro		Iroquoian languages
ta	it	Italian

J

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
pn	ja	Japanese
av	jv	Javanese
rb		Judeo-Arabic
pr		Judeo-Persian

K

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
bd		Kabardian
ab		Kabyle
ac		Kachin
al	kl	Greenlandic
al		Kalmyk
am		Kamba
an	kn	Kannada
au	kr	Kanuri
aa		Kara-Kalpak
rc		Karachay-Balkar
ar		Karen
as	ks	Kashimiri
sb		Kashubian
aw		Kawi
az	kk	Kazakh
ha		Khasi
hm	km	Khmer
hi		Khoisan (Other)
ho		Khotanese
ik	ki	Kikuyu
in	rw	Kinyarwanda
ir	ky	Kirghiz
lh		Klingon
om	kv	Komi
on	kg	Kongo
ok		Konkani
or	ko	Korean
pe		Kpelle
ro		Kru
ua	kj	Kuanyama
um		Kumyk
ur	ku	Kurdish
ru		Kurukh
us		Kusaie
ut		Kutenai

L

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ad		Ladino
ah		Lahnda (Western Punjabi)
am		Lamba
ao	lo	Lao
at	la	Latin
av	lv	Latvian
tz	lb	Lëtzebuergesch
ez		Lezghian
im	li	Limburgish
in	ln	Lingala
it	lt	Lithuanian
bo		Lojban
ds		Low Saxon
sb		Lower Sorbian
oz		Lozi
ub	lu	Luba-Katanga
ui		Luiseno
mj		Lule Sami
un		Lunda
uo		Luo

M

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ac/mkd	mk	Macedonian
ad		Madurese
ag		Magahi
ai		Maithili
ak		Makasar
lg	mg	Malagasy
ay/msa	ms	Malay
al	ml	Malayalam
lt	mt	Maltese
nc		Manchu
an		Mandingo
ni		Meithei (Manipuri)
no		Manobo
lv	gv	Manx
ao/mri	mi	Maori
ar	mr	Marathi
hm		Mari
ah	mh	Marshallese
wr		Marwari
as		Masai
yn		Mayan
en		Mende
ic		Mi'kmaq
in		Minangkabau
wl		Mirandese; added 2004-09-21
is		Miscellaneous (Other)
oh		Mohawk
df		Moksha
ol	mo	Moldavian
kh		Austro-Asiatic (Other)
ol		Mongo
on	mn	Mongolian
os		Mossi
ul		Multiple languages (several languages used)
un		Munda

N

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ah		Nahuatl
au	na	Nauru
av	nv	Navajo
de	nd	Ndebele, North
bl	nr	Ndebele, South
do	ng	Ndonga
ap		Neapolitan
ep	ne	Nepali
ew		Newari
ic		Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
sa		Nilo-Saharan (Other)
iu		Niuean
og		Nogai
on		Norse, Old
ai		North American Indian languages (Other)
me	se	Northern Sami
or	no	Norwegian
ob	nb	Norwegian (Bokml)
no	nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk)
ub		Nubian
ym		Nyamwezi
yn		Nyankole
yo		Nyoro
zi		Nzima

O

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ci	oc	Occitan (post 1500)
ji	oj	Ojibwe
hu	cu	Old Church Slavonic
ri	or	Oriya
rm	om	Oromo
sa		Osage
ss	os	Ossetian
to		Otomian

P

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
al		Pahlavi
au		Palauan
li	pi	Pali
am		Kapampangan
ag		Pangasinan
an	pa	Punjabi,Panjabi
ap		Papiamento
aa		Papuan-Australian (Other)
er/fas	fa	Persian
eo		Persian, Old (ca 600 - 400 B.C.)
hn		Phoenician
ol	pl	Polish
on		Ponapean
or	pt	Portuguese
ra		Prakrits
ro		Provencal, Old (to 1500)
us	ps	Pashto

Q

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ue	qu	Quechua

R

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
aj		Rajasthani
ap		Rapanui
ar		Rarotongan
oh	rm	Rhaeto-Romance
oa		Romance (Other)
um/ron	ro	Romanian
om		Romany
un	rn	Rundi
us	ru	Russian

S

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
al		Salishan
am		Samaritan Aramaic
mi		Sami
mo	sm	Samoan
ad		Sandawe
ag	sg	Sango
an	sa	Sanskrit
rd	sc	Sardinian
co		Scots
el		Selkup
em		Semitic (Other)
cc/srp	sr	Serbian
rr		Serer
hn		Shan
na	sn	Shona
cn		Sicilian
id		Sidamo
gn		Signed languages
la		Siksika
nd	sd	Sindhi
in	si	Sinhalese
it		Sino-Tibetan (Other)
io		Siouan
ms		Skolt Sami
la		Slavic (Other)
sw	ss	Siswant (the same as Swati, see below)
lk/slo	sk	Slovak
lv	sl	Slovenian
og		Sogdian
om	so	Somali
on		Songhai
en		Sorbian
sb		Sorbian, Lower
sb		Sorbian, Upper
so		Sotho, Northern
ot	st	Sotho, Southern
ma		Southern Sami
ai		South American Indian languages (Other)
pa	es	Spanish
uk		Sukuma
ux		Sumerian
un	su	Sundanese
us		Susu
wa	sw	Swahili
sw	ss	Swati
we	sv	Swedish
yr		Syriac

T

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
lg	tl	Tagalog
ah	ty	Tahitian
gk	tg	Tajik
mh		Tamashek
am	ta	Tamil
at	tt	Tatar
el	te	Telugu
er		Tereno
ha	th	Thai
ib/bod	bo	Tibetan
ig		Tigre
ir	ti	Tigrinya; Tigrigna
em		Timne
iv		Tivi
li		Tlingit
pi		Tok Pisin
og		Tonga
on	to	Tongan
ru		Trukese
si		Tsimshian
so	ts	Tsonga
sn	tn	Tswana
um		Tumbuka
up		Tupi
ur	tr	Turkish
ta		Ottoman Turkish (1500 - 1928)
uk	tk	Turkmen
yv		Tuvinian
wi	tw	Twi

U

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
dm		Udmurt
ga		Ugaritic
ig	ug	Uighur
kr	uk	Ukrainian
mb		Umbundu
nd		Undetermined (language or languages cannot be identified)
sb		Upper Sorbian
rd	ur	Urdu
zb	uz	Uzbek

V

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ai		Vai
en	ve	Venda
ie	vi	Vietnamese
ol	vo	Volapk
ot		Votic

W

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ak		Wakashan
al		Walamo
ln	wa	Walloon
ar		Waray
as		Washo
el/cym	cy	Welsh
ol	wo	Wolof

X

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ho	xh	Xhosa

Y

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
ah		Yakut
ao		Yao
ap		Yapese
ii	ii	Yi
id	yi	Yiddish
or	yo	Yoruba
pk		Yupik

Z

lpha-3!!Alpha-2!!Language name
nd		Zande
ap		Zapotec
en		Zenaga
ha	za	Zhuang
ul	zu	Zulu
un		Zuni

See also

• language families and languages
• list of languages
• list of official languages

External links

• ISO 639-2/RA Homepage
• ISO 639-2/RA Change Notice
• Details at Library of Congress website
• RFC 3066, Tags for the Identification of Languages, Best Current Practice, January 2001
• ISO 639 and the Ethnologue

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