Language Codes
excerpted from ISO 639 (rfc 1766)
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Language Codesexcerpted from ISO 639 (rfc 1766) |
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This is a list of language codes used on the World Wide Web. Do not confuse these with Country Codes. They serve two different purposes.
The language codes are presented using the English spelling for the languages and language names.
This is excerpted from a complete listing available from ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt. It is also known as ISO639.
| Language Name | Code | Language Family |
|---|---|---|
| Abkhazian | AB | Ibero-Caucasian |
| Afan (Oromo) | OM | Hamitic |
| Afar | AA | Hamitic |
| Afrikaans | AF | Germanic |
| Albanian | SQ | Indo-european (other) |
| Amharic | AM | Semitic |
| Arabic | AR | Semitic |
| Armenian | HY | Indo-european (other) |
| Assamese | AS | Indian |
| Aymara | AY | Amerindian |
| Azerbaijani | AZ | Turkic/altaic |
| Bashkir | BA | Turkic/altaic |
| Basque | EU | Basque |
| Bengali;bangla | BN | Indian |
| Bhutani | DZ | Asian |
| Bihari | BH | Indian |
| Bislama | BI | [not given] |
| Breton | BR | Celtic |
| Bulgarian | BG | Slavic |
| Burmese | MY | Asian |
| Byelorussian | BE | Slavic |
| Cambodian | KM | Asian |
| Catalan | CA | Romance |
| Chinese | ZH | Asian |
| Corsican | CO | Romance |
| Croatian | HR | Slavic |
| Czech | CS | Slavic |
| Danish | DA | Germanic |
| Dutch | NL | Germanic |
| English | EN | Germanic |
| Esperanto | EO | International aux. |
| Estonian | ET | Finno-ugric |
| Faroese | FO | Germanic |
| Fiji | FJ | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Finnish | FI | Finno-ugric |
| French | FR | Romance |
| Frisian | FY | Germanic |
| Galician | GL | Romance |
| Georgian | KA | Ibero-caucasian |
| German | DE | Germanic |
| Greek | EL | Latin/greek |
| Greenlandic | KL | Eskimo |
| Guarani | GN | Amerindian |
| Gujarati | GU | Indian |
| Hausa | HA | Negro-african |
| Hebrew | IW | Semitic |
| Hindi | HI | Indian |
| Hungarian | HU | Finno-ugric |
| Icelandic | IS | Germanic |
| Indonesian | IN | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Interlingua | IA | International aux. |
| Interlingue | IE | International aux. |
| Inupiak | IK | Eskimo |
| Irish | GA | Celtic |
| Italian | IT | Romance |
| Japanese | JA | Asian |
| Javanese | JV | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Kannada | KN | Dravidian |
| Kashmiri | KS | Indian |
| Kazakh | KK | Turkic/altaic |
| Kinyarwanda | RW | Negro-african |
| Kirghiz | KY | Turkic/altaic |
| Kurundi | RN | Negro-african |
| Korean | KO | Asian |
| Kurdish | KU | Iranian |
| Laothian | LO | Asian |
| Latin | LA | Latin/greek |
| Latvian;lettish | LV | Baltic |
| Lingala | LN | Negro-african |
| Lithuanian | LT | Baltic |
| Macedonian | MK | Slavic |
| Malagasy | MG | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Malay | MS | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Malayalam | ML | Dravidian |
| Maltese | MT | Semitic |
| Maori | MI | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Marathi | MR | Indian |
| Moldavian | MO | Romance |
| Mongolian | MN | [not given] |
| Nauru | NA | [not given] |
| Nepali | NE | Indian |
| Norwegian | NO | Germanic |
| Occitan | OC | Romance |
| Oriya | OR | Indian |
| Pashto;pushto | PS | Iranian |
| Persian | (farsi) | Fa iranian |
| Polish | PL | Slavic |
| Portuguese | PT | Romance |
| Punjabi | PA | Indian |
| Quechua | QU | Amerindian |
| Rhaeto-romance | RM | Romance |
| Romanian | RO | Romance |
| Russian | RU | Slavic |
| Samoan | SM | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Sangho | SG | Negro-african |
| Sanskrit | SA | Indian |
| Scots | GAELIC | Gd celtic |
| Serbian | SR | Slavic |
| Serbo-croatian | SH | Slavic |
| Sesotho | ST | Negro-african |
| Setswana | TN | Negro-african |
| Shona | SN | Negro-african |
| Sindhi | SD | Indian |
| Singhalese | SI | Indian |
| Siswati | SS | Negro-african |
| Slovak | SK | Slavic |
| Slovenian | SL | Slavic |
| Somali | SO | Hamitic |
| Spanish | ES | Romance |
| Sundanese | SU | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Swahili | SW | Negro-african |
| Swedish | SV | Germanic |
| Tagalog | TL | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Tajik | TG | Iranian |
| Tamil | TA | Dravidian |
| Tatar | TT | Turkic/altaic |
| Telugu | TE | Dravidian |
| Thai | TH | Asian |
| Tibetan | BO | Asian |
| Tigrinya | TI | Semitic |
| Tonga | TO | Oceanic/indonesian |
| Tsonga | TS | Negro-african |
| Turkish | TR | Turkic/altaic |
| Turkmen | TK | Turkic/altaic |
| Twi | TW | Negro-african |
| Ukrainian | UK | Slavic |
| Urdu | UR | Indian |
| Uzbek | UZ | Turkic/altaic |
| Vietnamese | VI | Asian |
| Volapuk | VO | International aux. |
| Welsh | CY | Celtic |
| Wolof | WO | Negro-african |
| Xhosa | XH | Negro-african |
| Yiddish | JI | Germanic |
| Yoruba | YO | Negro-african |
| Zulu | ZU | Negro-african |