ISO 639 Language Codes (Obsolete)
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ISO 639: 3-letter codes
abk ab Abkhazian
ace Achinese
ach Acoli
ada Adangme
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
arp Arapaho
arn Araucanian
arw Arawak
arm/hye hy Armenian
art Artificial (Other)
asm as Assamese
ath Athapascan languages
map Austronesian (Other)
ava Avaric
ave Avestan
awa Awadhi
aym ay Aymara
aze az Azerbaijani
nah Aztec
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
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)
hr Croatian
ces/cze cs Czech
dak Dakota
dan da Danish
del Delaware
din Dinka
div Divehi
doi Dogri
dra Dravidian (Other)
dua Duala
dut/nla nl Dutch
dum Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
dyu Dyula
dzo dz Dzongkha
efi Efik
egy Egyptian (Ancient)
eka Ekajuk
elx Elamite
eng en English
enm English, Middle (ca. 1100-1500)
ang English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
esk Eskimo (Other)
epo eo Esperanto
est et Estonian
ewe Ewe
ewo Ewondo
fan Fang
fat Fanti
fao fo Faroese
fij fj Fijian
fin fi Finnish
fiu Finno-Ugrian (Other)
fon Fon
fra/fre fr French
frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
fro French, Old (842- ca. 1400)
fry fy Frisian
ful Fulah
gaa Ga
gae/gdh Gaelic (Scots)
glg gl Gallegan
lug Ganda
gay Gayo
gez Geez
geo/kat ka Georgian
deu/ger de German
gmh German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
goh German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)
gem Germanic (Other)
gil Gilbertese
gon Gondi
got Gothic
grb Grebo
grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
ell/gre el Greek, Modern (1453-)
kal kl Greenlandic
grn gn Guarani
guj gu Gujarati
hai Haida
hau ha Hausa
haw Hawaiian
heb he Hebrew
her Herero
hil Hiligaynon
him Himachali
hin hi Hindi
hmo Hiri Motu
hun hu Hungarian
hup Hupa
iba Iban
ice/isl is Icelandic
ibo Igbo
ijo Ijo
ilo Iloko
inc Indic (Other)
ine Indo-European (Other)
ind id Indonesian
ina ia Interlingua (International Auxiliary language Association)
ine - Interlingue
iku iu Inuktitut
ipk ik Inupiak
ira Iranian (Other)
gai/iri ga Irish
sga Irish, Old (to 900)
mga Irish, Middle (900 - 1200)
iro Iroquoian languages
ita it Italian
jpn ja Japanese
jav/jaw jv/jw Javanese
jrb Judeo-Arabic
jpr Judeo-Persian
kab Kabyle
kac Kachin
kam Kamba
kan kn Kannada
kau Kanuri
kaa Kara-Kalpak
kar Karen
kas ks Kashmiri
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 Kongo
kok Konkani
kor ko Korean
kpe Kpelle
kro Kru
kua Kuanyama
kum Kumyk
kur ku Kurdish
kru Kurukh
kus Kusaie
kut Kutenai
lad Ladino
lah Lahnda
lam Lamba
oci oc Langue d'Oc (post 1500)
lao lo Lao
lat la Latin
lav lv Latvian
ltz Letzeburgesch
lez Lezghian
lin ln Lingala
lit lt Lithuanian
loz Lozi
lub Luba-Katanga
lui Luiseno
lun Lunda
luo Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
mac/mak mk Macedonian
mad Madurese
mag Magahi
mai Maithili
mak Makasar
mlg mg Malagasy
may/msa ms Malay
mal Malayalam
mlt ml Maltese
man Mandingo
mni Manipuri
mno Manobo languages
max Manx
mao/mri mi Maori
mar mr Marathi
chm Mari
mah Marshall
mwr Marwari
mas Masai
myn Mayan languages
men Mende
mic Micmac
min Minangkabau
mis Miscellaneous (Other)
moh Mohawk
mol mo Moldavian
mkh Mon-Kmer (Other)
lol Mongo
mon mn Mongolian
mos Mossi
mul Multiple languages
mun Munda languages
nau na Nauru
nav Navajo
nde Ndebele, North
nbl Ndebele, South
ndo Ndongo
nep ne Nepali
new Newari
nic Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
ssa Nilo-Saharan (Other)
niu Niuean
non Norse, Old
nai North American Indian (Other)
nor no Norwegian
nno Norwegian (Nynorsk)
nub Nubian languages
nym Nyamwezi
nya Nyanja
nyn Nyankole
nyo Nyoro
nzi Nzima
oji Ojibwa
ori or Oriya
orm om Oromo
osa Osage
oss Ossetic
oto Otomian languages
pal Pahlavi
pau Palauan
pli Pali
pam Pampanga
pag Pangasinan
pan pa Panjabi
pap Papiamento
paa Papuan-Australian (Other)
fas/per 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
que qu Quechua
roh rm Rhaeto-Romance
raj Rajasthani
rar Rarotongan
roa Romance (Other)
ron/rum ro Romanian
rom Romany
run rn Rundi
rus ru Russian
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 (Other)
sr Serbian
scr sh Serbo-Croatian
srr Serer
shn Shan
sna sn Shona
sid Sidamo
bla Siksika
snd sd Sindhi
sin si Singhalese
sit - Sino-Tibetan (Other)
sio Siouan languages
sla Slavic (Other)
ssw ss Siswant
slk/slo sk Slovak
slv sl Slovenian
sog Sogdian
som so Somali
son Songhai
wen Sorbian languages
nso Sotho, Northern
sot st Sotho, Southern
sai South American Indian (Other)
esl/spa es Spanish
suk Sukuma
sux Sumerian
sun su Sudanese
sus Susu
swa sw Swahili
ssw Swazi
sve/swe sv Swedish
syr Syriac
tgl tl Tagalog
tah Tahitian
tgk tg Tajik
tmh Tamashek
tam ta Tamil
tat tt Tatar
tel te Telugu
ter Tereno
tha th Thai
bod/tib bo Tibetan
tig Tigre
tir ti Tigrinya
tem Timne
tiv Tivi
tli Tlingit
tog to Tonga (Nyasa)
ton 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
uga Ugaritic
uig ug Uighur
ukr uk Ukrainian
umb Umbundu
und Undetermined
urd ur Urdu
uzb uz Uzbek
vai Vai
ven Venda
vie vi Vietnamese
vol vo Volapük
vot Votic
wak Wakashan languages
wal Walamo
war Waray
was Washo
cym/wel cy Welsh
wol wo Wolof
xho xh Xhosa
sah Yakut
yao Yao
yap Yap
yid yi Yiddish
yor yo Yoruba
zap Zapotec
zen Zenaga
zha za Zhuang
zul zu Zulu
zun Zuni
ISO 639: 2-letter codes
AA "Afar" AB "Abkhazian" AF "Afrikaans" AM "Amharic" AR "Arabic" AS "Assamese" AY "Aymara" AZ "Azerbaijani" BA "Bashkir" BE "Byelorussian" BG "Bulgarian" BH "Bihari" BI "Bislama" BN "Bengali" "Bangla" BO "Tibetan" BR "Breton" CA "Catalan" CO "Corsican" CS "Czech" CY "Welsh" DA "Danish" DE "German" DZ "Bhutani" EL "Greek" EN "English" "American" EO "Esperanto" ES "Spanish" ET "Estonian" EU "Basque" FA "Persian" FI "Finnish" FJ "Fiji" FO "Faeroese" FR "French" FY "Frisian" GA "Irish" GD "Gaelic" "Scots Gaelic" GL "Galician" GN "Guarani" GU "Gujarati" HA "Hausa" HI "Hindi" HR "Croatian" HU "Hungarian" HY "Armenian" IA "Interlingua" IE "Interlingue" IK "Inupiak" IN "Indonesian" IS "Icelandic" IT "Italian" IW "Hebrew" JA "Japanese" JI "Yiddish" JW "Javanese" KA "Georgian" KK "Kazakh" KL "Greenlandic" KM "Cambodian" KN "Kannada" KO "Korean" KS "Kashmiri" KU "Kurdish" KY "Kirghiz" LA "Latin" LN "Lingala" LO "Laothian" LT "Lithuanian" LV "Latvian" "Lettish" MG "Malagasy" MI "Maori" MK "Macedonian" ML "Malayalam" MN "Mongolian" MO "Moldavian" MR "Marathi" MS "Malay" MT "Maltese" MY "Burmese" NA "Nauru" NE "Nepali" NL "Dutch" NO "Norwegian" OC "Occitan" OM "Oromo" "Afan" OR "Oriya" PA "Punjabi" PL "Polish" PS "Pashto" "Pushto" PT "Portuguese" QU "Quechua" RM "Rhaeto-Romance" RN "Kirundi" RO "Romanian" RU "Russian" RW "Kinyarwanda" SA "Sanskrit" SD "Sindhi" SG "Sangro" SH "Serbo-Croatian" SI "Singhalese" SK "Slovak" SL "Slovenian" SM "Samoan" SN "Shona" SO "Somali" SQ "Albanian" SR "Serbian" SS "Siswati" ST "Sesotho" SU "Sudanese" SV "Swedish" SW "Swahili" TA "Tamil" TE "Tegulu" TG "Tajik" TH "Thai" TI "Tigrinya" TK "Turkmen" TL "Tagalog" TN "Setswana" TO "Tonga" TR "Turkish" TS "Tsonga" TT "Tatar" TW "Twi" UK "Ukrainian" UR "Urdu" UZ "Uzbek" VI "Vietnamese" VO "Volapuk" WO "Wolof" XH "Xhosa" YO "Yoruba" ZH "Chinese" ZU "Zulu"
thanks http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm