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Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F)
Code for the representation of names of languages

Two-letter lower-case symbols are used.

The Registration Authority for ISO 639 is Infoterm, Österreichisches Normungsinstitut (ON), Postfach 130, A-1021 Wien, Austria.

Contains additions from ISO 639/RA Newsletter No. 1/1989, and from a decision of the Advisory Committee of ISO/TC37 on 1997-08-27 in Copenhagen.


Allez ŕ la version française.
Téir go dtí an leagan Gaeilge.
CodeEnglish name of the language
aaAfar
abAbkhazian
afAfrikaans
amAmharic
arArabic
asAssamese
ayAymara
azAzerbaijani
baBashkir
beByelorussian (recte Belarussian)
bgBulgarian
bhBihari
biBislama
bnBengali; Bangla
boTibetan
brBreton
caCatalan
coCorsican
csCzech
cyWelsh
daDanish
deGerman
dzBhutani
elGreek
enEnglish
eoEsperanto
esSpanish
etEstonian
euBasque
faPersian
fiFinnish
fjFiji
foFaroese
frFrench
fyFrisian
gaIrish (recte Irish Gaelic)
gdScots Gaelic (recte Scottish Gaelic)
glGalician
gnGuarani
guGujarati
gvManx Gaelic
haHausa
heHebrew (formerly iw)
hiHindi
hrCroatian
huHungarian
hyArmenian
iaInterlingua
idIndonesian (formerly in)
ieInterlingue
ikInupiak
isIcelandic
itItalian
iuInuktitut
jaJapanese
jwJavanese
kaGeorgian
kkKazakh
klGreenlandic
kmCambodian
knKannada
koKorean
ksKashmiri
kuKurdish
kwCornish
kyKirghiz
laLatin
lbLuxemburgish
lnLingala
loLaothian (recte Laotian)
ltLithuanian
lvLatvian; Lettish
mgMalagasy
miMaori
mkMacedonian
mlMalayalam
mnMongolian
moMoldavian
mrMarathi
msMalay
mtMaltese
myBurmese
naNauru
neNepali
nlDutch
noNorwegian
ocOccitan
om(Afan) Oromo
orOriya
paPunjabi
plPolish
psPashto, Pushto
ptPortuguese
quQuechua
rmRhaeto-Romance
rnKirundi
roRomanian
ruRussian
rwKinyarwanda
saSanskrit
sdSindhi
seNorthern Sámi
sgSangho
shSerbo-Croatian
siSinghalese
skSlovak
slSlovenian
smSamoan
snShona
soSomali
sqAlbanian
srSerbian
ssSiswati
stSesotho
suSundanese
svSwedish
swSwahili
taTamil
teTelugu
tgTajik
thThai
tiTigrinya
tkTurkmen
tlTagalog
tnSetswana
toTonga
trTurkish
tsTsonga
ttTatar
twTwi
ugUigur
ukUkrainian
urUrdu
uzUzbek
viVietnamese
voVolapük
woWolof
xhXhosa
yiYiddish (formerly ji)
yoYoruba
zaZhuang
zhChinese
zuZulu
CodeEnglish name of the language

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