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ISO 639 has three code lists. The following is a complete list of ISO 639-2 codes, including the corresponding ISO 639-1 codes where they exist. The codes are sorted by language name in the third column. The DIS/ISO 639-3 codes are not included.

The standard defines two codes for special situations: mul, for "multiple languages," and und, for "undetermined language." There is also a range reserved for local use: qaa-qtz.

The code list also gives zxx "no linguistic content" (added 2006-01-11), and mis "miscellaneous languages."[link]

Where two alpha-3 codes are given, the first is the "bibliographic" or B code and the second the "terminological" or T code.

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A

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
abk ab Abkhaz Аҧсуа
ace   Acehnese, Achinese Aceh
ach   Acoli
ada   Adangme
ady   Adyghe; Adygei адыгэбзэ; адыгабзэ
aar aa Afar Afaraf
afh   Afrihili
afr af Afrikaans Afrikaans
afa   Afro-Asiatic (Other)
ain   Ainu アイヌ イタク(イタック) or ainu itak
aka ak Akan
akk   Akkadian akkadû; lišānum akkadītum
alb/sqi sq Albanian Shqip
ale   Aleut
alg   Algonquian languages
tut   Altaic (Other)
amh am Amharic አማርኛ
anp   Angika
apa   Apache languages
ara ar Arabic العربية
arg an Aragonese Aragonés
arc   Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ
arp   Arapaho Hinono'eitiit
arn   Araucanian mapunche; mapudungun
arw   Arawak
arm/hye hy Armenian Հայերեն լեզու
art   Artificial (Other)
asm as Assamese অসমীয়া
ast   Asturian; Bable asturianu
ath   Athapascan languages
aus   Australian languages
map   Austronesian (Other)
ava av Avaric авар мацӀ; магӀарул мацӀ
ave ae Avestan avesta
awa   Awadhi
aym ay Aymara aymar aru
aze az Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca

B

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
ban   Balinese Basa Bali
bat   Baltic (Other)
bal   Baluchi بلوچی
bam bm Bambara bamanankan
bai   Bamileke languages
bad   Banda
bnt   Bantu (Other)
bas   Basa ɓasaá
bak ba Bashkir башҡорт теле
baq/eus eu Basque euskara
btk   Batak (Indonesia)
bej   Beja بداوية
bel be Belarusian Беларуская мова
bem   Bemba
ben bn Bangla; Bengali বাংলা
ber   Berber (Other)
bho   Bhojpuri भोजपुरी
bih bh Bihari
bik   Bikol
bin   Bini
bis bi Bislama
byn   Blin; Bilin
bos bs Bosnian bosanski jezik
bra   Brij Bhasha
bre br Breton brezhoneg
bug   Buginese ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ
bul bg Bulgarian български език
bua   Buriat буряад хэлэн
bur/mya my Burmese မန္မာစာ

C

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
cad   Caddo Hasí:nay
car   Carib
cat ca Catalan; Valencian català
cau   Caucasian (Other)
ceb   Cebuano Sinugboanon
cel   Celtic (Other)
cai   Central American Indian (Other)
chg   Chagatai
cmc   Chamic languages
cha ch Chamorro Chamoru
che ce Chechen нохчийн мотт
chr   Cherokee ᏣᎳᎩ
chy   Cheyenne Tsêhést
chb   Chibcha
nya ny Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja chiCheŵa; chinyanja
chi/zho zh Chinese 中文
chn   Chinook jargon
chp   Dene Suline Dëne Sųłiné; ᑌᓀᓲᒢᕄᓀ
cho   Choctaw Chahta Anumpa
chu cu Church Slavonic; Church Slavic;
Old Church Slavonic; Old Slavonic;
Old Bulgarian
chk   Chuukese
chv cv Chuvash чӑваш чӗлхи
nwc   Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa
cop   Coptic ⲙⲉⲧⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
cor kw Cornish Kernewek
cos co Corsican corsu; lingua corsa
cre cr Cree ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ
mus   Creek; Muskogean Maskoki; Mvskokē empunakv
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)
crh   Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish) qırımtatar tili, къырымтатар тили
scr/hrv hr Croatian hrvatski jezik
cus   Cushitic (Other)
cze/ces cs Czech česky; čeština

D

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
dak   Dakota Lakhota
dan da Danish dansk
dar   Dargwa дарган мез
day   Dayak
del   Delaware Lënape
din   Dinka Thuɔŋjäŋ
div dv Divehi ދިވެހިބަސ
doi   Dogri डोगरी
dgr   Dogrib Tłįchǫ
dra   Dravidian (Other)
dua   Duala
dut/nld nl Dutch; Flemish Nederlands; Vlaams
dum   Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050–1350)
dyu   Dyula
dzo dz Dzongkha རྫོང་ཁ

E

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
efi   Efik
egy   Egyptian (Ancient)
eka   Ekajuk
elx   Elamite
eng en English English
enm   English, Middle (ca. 1100–1500)
ang   English, Old (ca. 450–1100) Englisc
myv   Erzya эрзянь кель
epo eo Esperanto Esperanto
est et Estonian Eesti keel
ewe ee Ewe Ɛʋɛgbɛ
ewo   Ewondo

F

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
fan   Fang
fat   Fanti
fao fo Faroese føroyskt
fij fj Fijian vosa Vakaviti
fil   Filipino
fin fi Finnish suomi; suomen kieli
fiu   Finno-Ugrian (Other)
fon   Fon Fɔngbe
fre/fra fr French français; langue française
frm   French, Middle (ca. 1400—1600)
fro   French, Old (842—ca. 1400)
frs   Eastern Frisian Seeltersk Fräisk; Seeltersk; Fräisk
fry fy Western Frisian frysk
fur   Friulian furlan
ful ff Fulah Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular

G

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
gaa   Ga
glg gl Galician Galego
lug lg Ganda Luganda
gay   Gayo
gba   Gbaya
gez   Geez ግዕዝ
geo/kat ka Georgian ქართული ენა (kartuli ena)
ger/deu de German Deutsch
nds   German, Low; Low German; Saxon, Low; Low Saxon Nederdüütsch, Plattdüütsch
gmh   German, Middle High (ca. 1050–1500) Mittelhochdeutsch
goh   German, Old High (ca. 750–1050) Althochdeutsch
gem   Germanic (Other)
gil   Gilbertese; Kiribati taetae ni Kiribati
gon   Gondi
gor   Gorontalo
got   Gothic
grb   Grebo
grc   Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Ἑλληνικά
gre/ell el Greek, Modern (1453–) Ελληνικά
kal kl Greenlandic; Kalaallisut kalaallisut; kalaallit oqaasii
grn gn Guarani Avañe'ẽ
gsw   Alemannic Alemannisch, Schwyzerdütsch
guj gu Gujarati ગુજરાતી
gwi   Gwichʼin

H

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
hai   Haida X̲aat Kíl
hat ht Haitian Creole; Haitian Kreyòl ayisyen
hau ha Hausa Hausancī; هَوُسَ
haw   Hawaiian ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i
heb he Hebrew עִבְרִית; עברית
her hz Herero Otjiherero
hil   Hiligaynon Ilonggo
him   Himachali
hin hi Hindi हिन्दी
hmo ho Hiri Motu
hit   Hittite
hmn   Hmong Hmoob; 
hun hu Hungarian Magyar
hup   Hupa

I

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
iba   Iban
ice/isl is Icelandic íslenska
ido io Ido Ido
ibo ig Igbo Igbo
ijo   Ijo
ilo   Iloko
smn   Inari Sami säämegiella
inc   Indic (Other)
ine   Indo-European (Other)
ind id Indonesian
inh   Ingush гӀалгӀай мотт
ina ia Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) interlingua
ile ie Interlingue Interlingue
iku iu Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
ipk ik Inupiaq Iñupiaq; Iñupiatun
ira   Iranian (Other)
gle ga Irish Gaeilge
mga   Irish, Middle (900–1200)
sga   Irish, Old (to 900)
iro   Iroquoian languages
ita it Italian italiano

J

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
jpn ja Japanese 日本語
jav jv Javanese basa Jawa
jbo   Lojban lojban
jrb   Judeo-Arabic
jpr   Judeo-Persian

K

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T

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X

Y

Z

  1. ↑  Serbo-Croatian language got an alpha-2 code sh but it is now deprecated. It has no alpha-3 code. However, SIL international is assigning an ISO 639-3 code [hbs] to Serbo-Croatian for considering it to be a macro-language.
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See also

External links

  • http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html - different code lists

 

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