USMARC Code List for Languages

Code Sequence

A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
The following list includes the USMARC language codes, listed alphabetically by code, followed by language. Tracings or references for variant forms of the languages are not included.

A

ace	Achinese
ach	Acoli
ada	Adangme
afa	Afro-Asiatic (Other)
afh  Afrihili (Artificial language)
afr  Afrikaans
ajm  Aljamia
aka  Akan
akk  Akkadian
alb  Albanian
ale  Aleut
alg  Algonquian languages
amh  Amharic
ang  English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
apa  Apache languages
ara  Arabic
arc  Aramaic
arm  Armenian
arn  Araucanian
arp  Arapaho
art  Artificial (Other)
arw  Arawak
asm  Assamese
ath  Athapascan languages
ava  Avaric
ave  Avestan
awa  Awadhi
aym  Aymara
aze  Azerbaijani
B

bad  Banda
bai  Bamileke languages
bak  Bashkir
bal  Baluchi
bam  Bambara
ban  Balinese
baq  Basque
bas  Basa
bat  Baltic (Other)
bej  Beja
bel  Byelorussian
bem  Bemba
ben  Bengali
ber  Berber languages
bho  Bhojpuri
bik  Bikol
bin  Bini
bla  Siksika
bra  Braj
bre  Breton
bug  Buginese
bul  Bulgarian
bur  Burmese
C

cad  Caddo
cai  Central American Indian (Other)
cam  Khmer
car  Carib
cat  Catalan
cau  Caucasian (Other)
ceb  Cebuano
cel  Celtic languages
cha  Chamorro
chb  Chibcha
che  Chechen
chg  Chagatai
chi  Chinese
chn  Chinook jargon
cho  Choctaw
chr  Cherokee
chu  Church Slavic
chv  Chuvash
chy  Cheyenne
cop  Coptic
cor  Cornish
cpe  Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
cpf  Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)
cpp  Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
cre  Cree
crp  Creoles and Pidgins (Other)
cus  Cushitic (Other)
cze  Czech
D

dak  Dakota
dan  Danish
del  Delaware
din  Dinka
doi  Dogri
dra  Dravidian (Other)
dua  Duala
dum  Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
dut  Dutch
dyu  Dyula
E

efi  Efik
egy  Egyptian
eka  Ekajuk
elx  Elamite
eng  English
enm  English, Middle (1100-1500)
esk  Eskimo
esp  Esperanto
est  Estonian
eth  Ethiopic
ewe  Ewe
ewo  Ewondo
F

fan  Fang
far  Faroese
fat  Fanti
fij  Fijian
fin  Finnish
fiu  Finno-Ugrian (Other)
fon  Fon
fre  French
fri  Friesian
frm  French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
fro  French, Old (ca. 842-1400)
ful  Fula
G

gaa  G_
gae  Gaelic (Scots)
gag  Gallegan
gal  Oromo
gay  Gayo
gem  Germanic (Other)
geo  Georgian
ger  German
gil  Gilbertese
gmh  German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
goh  German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)
gon  Gondi
got  Gothic
grb  Grebo
grc  Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
gre  Greek, Modern (1453- )
gua  Guarani
guj  Gujarati
H

hai  Haida
hau  Hausa
haw  Hawaiian
heb  Hebrew
her  Herero
hil  Hiligaynon
him  Himachali
hin  Hindi
hmo  Hiri Motu
hun  Hungarian
hup  Hupa
I

iba  Iban
ibo  Igbo
ice  Icelandic
ijo  Ijo
ilo  Iloko
inc  Indic (Other)
ind  Indonesian
ine  Indo-European (Other)
int  Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
ira  Iranian (Other)
iri  Irish
iro  Iroquoian languages
ita  Italian
J

jav  Javanese
jpn  Japanese
jpr  Judeo-Persian
jrb  Judeo-Arabic
K

kaa  Kara-Kalpak
kab  Kabyle
kac  Kachin
kam  Kamba
kan  Kannada
kar  Karen
kas  Kashmiri
kau  Kanuri
kaw  Kawi
kaz  Kazakh
kha  Khasi
khi  Khoisan (Other)
kho  Khotanese
kik  Kikuyu
kin  Kinyarwanda
kir  Kirghiz
kok  Konkani
kon  Kongo
kor  Korean
kpe  Kpelle
kro  Kru
kru  Kurukh
kua  Kuanyama
kur  Kurdish
kus  Kusaie
kut  Kutenai
L

lad  Ladino
lah  Lahnd
lam  Lamba
lan  Langue d'oc (post-1500)
lao  Lao
lap  Lapp
lat  Latin
lav  Latvian
lin  Lingala
lit  Lithuanian
lol  Mongo
loz  Lozi
lub  Luba-Katanga
lug  Ganda
lui  Luiseno
lun  Lunda
luo  Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
M

mac  Macedonian
mad  Madurese
mag  Magahi
mah  Marshall
mai  Maithili
mak  Makasar
mal  Malayalam
man  Mandingo
mao  Maori
map  Austronesian (Other)
mar  Marathi
mas  Masai
max  Manx
may  Malay
men  Mende
mic  Micmac
min  Minangkabau
mis  Miscellaneous (Other)
mkh  Mon-Khmer (Other)
mla  Malagasy
mlt  Maltese
mni  Manipuri
mno  Manobo languages
moh  Mohawk
mol  Moldavian
mon  Mongolian
mos  Mossi
mul  Multiple languages
mun  Munda (Other)
mus  Creek
mwr  Marwari
myn  Mayan languages
N

nah  Aztec
nai  North American Indian (Other)
nav  Navajo
nde  Ndebele (Zimbabwe) 
ndo  Ndonga
nep  Nepali
new  Newari
nic  Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
niu  Niuean
nor  Norwegian
nso  Northern Sotho
nub  Nubian languages
nya  Nyanja
nym  Nyamwezi
nyn  Nyankole
nyo  Nyoro
nzi  Nzima
O

oji  Ojibwa
ori  Oriya
osa  Osage
oss  Ossetic
ota  Turkish, Ottoman
oto  Otomian languages
P

paa  Papuan-Australian (Other)
pag  Pangasinan
pal  Pahlavi
pam  Pampanga
pan  Panjabi
pap  Papiamento
pau  Palauan
peo  Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)
per  Persian
pli  Pali
pol  Polish
pon  Ponape
por  Portuguese
pra  Prakrit languages
pro  Provencal, Old (to 1500)
pus  Pushto
Q

que  Quechua
R

raj  Rajasthani
rar  Rarotongan
roa  Romance (Other)
roh  Raeto-Romance
rom  Romany
rum  Romanian
run  Rundi
rus  Russian
S

sad  Sandawe
sag  Sango
sai  South American Indian (Other)
sal  Salishan languages
sam  Samaritan Aramaic
san  Sanskrit
sao  Samoan
scc  Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic)
sco  Scots
scr  Serbo-Croatian (Roman)
sel  Selkup
sem  Semitic (Other)
shn  Shan
sho  Shona
sid  Sidamo
sio  Siouan languages
sit  Sino-Tibetan (Other)
sla  Slavic (Other)
slo  Slovak
slv  Slovenian
snd  Sindhi
snh  Sinhalese
sog  Sogdian
som  Somali
son  Songhai
spa  Spanish
srr  Serer
ssa  Nilo-Saharan (Other)
sso  Sotho
suk  Sukuma
sun  Sundanese
sus  Susu
sux  Sumerian
swa  Swahili
swe  Swedish
swz  Swazi
syr  Syriac
T

tag  Tagalog
tah  Tahitian
taj  Tajik
tam  Tamil
tar  Tatar
tel  Telugu
tem  Timne
ter  Tereno
tha  Thai
tib  Tibetan
tig  Tigre
tir  Tigrinya
tiv  Tivi
tli  Tlingit
tog  Tonga (Nyasa)
ton  Tonga (Tonga Islands)
tru  Truk
tsi  Tsimshian
tso  Tsonga
tsw  Tswana
tuk  Turkmen
tum  Tumbuka
tur  Turkish
tut  Altaic (Other)
twi  Twi
U

uga  Ugaritic
uig  Uighur
ukr  Ukrainian
umb  Umbundu
und  Undetermined
urd  Urdu
uzb  Uzbek
V

vai  Vai
ven  Venda
vie  Vietnamese
vot  Votic
W

wak  Wakashan languages
wal  Walamo
war  Waray
was  Washo
wel  Welsh
wen  Sorbian languages
wol  Wolof
X

xho  Xhosa
Y

yao  Yao
yap  Yap
yid  Yiddish
yor  Yoruba
Z

zap  Zapotec
zen  Zenaga
zul  Zulu
zun  Zuni


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