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Technical contents of ISO 639-2:1996
Code for the representation of names of languages:
Part 2: Alpha-3 code

There are two sets of alpha-3 language codes, one for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T) and one for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B).

The Registration Authority for ISO 639 is Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA (c/o Network development and MARC Standards Office).

After 5 years from the adoption of the standard (i.e. in 2001), the following code may be used as a terminological code:

esp

Spanish

T	B	Language name (in English)	639-1
aar	aar	Afar	aa
abk	abk	Abkhazian	ab
ace	ace	Achinese	�
ach	ach	Acoli	�
ada	ada	Adangme	�
afa	afa	Afro-Asiatic (Other)	�
afh	afh	Afrihili	�
afr	afr	Afrikaans	af
ajm	ajm	Aljamia	�
aka	aka	Akan	�
akk	akk	Akkadian	�
ale	ale	Aleut	�
alg	alg	Algonquian languages	�
amh	amh	Amharic	am
ang	ang	English, Old (ca. 450-1100)	�
apa	apa	Apache languages	�
ara	ara	Arabic	ar
arc	arc	Aramaic	�
arn	arn	Araucanian	�
arp	arp	Arapaho	�
art	art	Artificial (Other)	�
arw	arw	Arawak	�
asm	asm	Assamese	as
ath	ath	Athapascan languages	�
aus	aus	Australian languages	�
ava	ava	Avaric	�
ave	ave	Avestan	�
awa	awa	Awadhi	�
aym	aym	Aymara	ay
aze	aze	Azerbaijani	az
bad	bad	Banda	�
bai	bai	Bamileke languages	�
bak	bak	Bashkir	ba
bal	bal	Baluchi	�
bam	bam	Bambara	�
ban	ban	Balinese	�
bas	bas	Basa	�
bat	bat	Baltic (Other)	�
bej	bej	Beja	�
bel	bel	Belarussian	be
bem	bem	Bemba	�
ben	ben	Bengali	bn
ber	ber	Berber (Other)	�
bho	bho	Bhojpuri	�
bih	bih	Bihari	bh
bik	bik	Bikol	�
bin	bin	Bini	�
bis	bis	Bislama	bi
bla	bla	Siksika	�
bnt	bnt	Bantu (Other)	�
bod	tib	Tibetan	bo
bra	bra	Braj	�
bre	bre	Breton	br
btk	btk	Batak (Indonesia)	�
bua	bua	Buriat	�
bug	bug	Buginese	�
bul	bul	Bulgarian	bg
cad	cad	Caddo	�
cai	cai	Central American Indian (Other)	�
car	car	Carib	�
cat	cat	Catalan	ca
cau	cau	Caucasian (Other)	�
ceb	ceb	Cebuano	�
cel	cel	Celtic (Other)	�
ces	cze	Czech	cs
cha	cha	Chamorro	�
chb	chb	Chibcha	�
che	che	Chechen	�
chg	chg	Chagatai	�
chk	chk	Chuukese	�
chm	chm	Mari	�
chn	chn	Chinook jargon	�
cho	cho	Choctaw	�
chp	chp	Chipewyan	�
chr	chr	Cherokee	�
chu	chu	Church Slavic	�
chv	chv	Chuvash	�
chy	chy	Cheyenne	�
cmc	cmc	Chamic languages	�
cop	cop	Coptic	�
cor	cor	Cornish	kw
cos	cos	Corsican	co
cpe	cpe	Creoles and pidgins, English-based (Other)	�
cpf	cpf	Creoles and pidgins, French-based (Other)	�
cpp	cpp	Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)	�
cre	cre	Cree	�
crp	crp	Creoles and pidgins (Other)	�
cus	cus	Cushitic (Other)	�
cym	wel	Welsh	cy
dak	dak	Dakota	�
dan	dan	Danish	da
day	day	Dayak	�
del	del	Delaware	�
den	den	Slave (Athapascan)	�
deu	ger	German	de
dgr	dgr	Dogrib	�
din	din	Dinka	�
div	div	Divehi	�
doi	doi	Dogri	�
dra	dra	Dravidian (Other)	�
dua	dua	Duala	�
dum	dum	Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)	�
dyu	dyu	Dyula	�
dzo	dzo	Dzongkha	dz
efi	efi	Efik	�
egy	egy	Egyptian (Ancient)	�
eka	eka	Ekajuk	�
ell	gre	Greek, Modern (1453-)	el
elx	elx	Elamite	�
eng	eng	English	en
enm	enm	English, Middle (1100-1500)	�
epo	epo	Esperanto	eo
est	est	Estonian	et
eth	eth	Ethiopic	�
eus	baq	Basque	eu
ewe	ewe	Ewe	�
ewo	ewo	Ewondo	�
fan	fan	Fang	�
fao	fao	Faroese	fo
fas	per	Persian	fa
fat	fat	Fanti	�
fij	fij	Fijian	fj
fin	fin	Finnish	fi
fiu	fiu	Finno-Ugrian (Other)	�
fon	fon	Fon	�
fra	fre	French	fr
frm	frm	French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)	�
fro	fro	French, Old (ca. 842-1400)	�
fry	fry	Frisian	fy
ful	ful	Fulah	�
fur	fur	Friulian	�
gaa	gaa	Ga	�
gai	iri	Irish	ga
gay	gay	Gayo	�
gba	gba	Gbaya	�
gdh	gae	Gaelic (Scots)	gd
gem	gem	Germanic (Other)	�
gez	gez	Geez	�
gil	gil	Gilbertese	�
glg	glg	Gallegan	gl
gmh	gmh	German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)	�
goh	goh	German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)	�
gon	gon	Gondi	�
gor	gor	Gorontalo	�
got	got	Gothic	�
grb	grb	Grebo	�
grc	grc	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)	�
grn	grn	Guarani	gn
guj	guj	Gujarati	gu
gwi	gwi	Gwich'in	�
hai	hai	Haida	�
hau	hau	Hausa	ha
haw	haw	Hawaiian	�
heb	heb	Hebrew	he/iw
her	her	Herero	�
hil	hil	Hiligaynon	�
him	him	Himachali	�
hin	hin	Hindi	hi
hit	hit	Hittite	�
hmn	hmn	Hmong	�
hmo	hmo	Hiri Motu	�
hrv	scr	Croatian	hr
hun	hun	Hungarian	hu
hup	hup	Hupa	�
hye	arm	Armenian	hy
iba	iba	Iban	�
ibo	ibo	Igbo	�
ijo	ijo	Ijo	�
iku	iku	Inuktitut	iu
ile	ile	Interlingue	ie
ilo	ilo	Iloko	�
ina	ina	Interlingua (International Auxilary Language Association)	ia
inc	inc	Indic (Other)	�
ind	ind	Indonesian	id/in
ine	ine	Indo-European (Other)	�
ipk	ipk	Inupiak	ik
ira	ira	Iranian (Other)	�
iro	iro	Iroquoian languages	�
isl	ice	Icelandic	is
ita	ita	Italian	it
jaw	jav	Javanese	jw
jpn	jpn	Japanese	ja
jpr	jpr	Judeo-Persian	�
jrb	jrb	Judeo-Arabic	�
kaa	kaa	Kara-Kalpak	�
kab	kab	Kabyle	�
kac	kac	Kachin	�
kal	kal	Kalaallisut	kl
kam	kam	Kamba	�
kan	kan	Kannada	kn
kar	kar	Karen	�
kas	kas	Kashmiri	ks
kat	geo	Georgian	ka
kau	kau	Kanuri	�
kaw	kaw	Kawi	�
kaz	kaz	Kazakh	kk
kha	kha	Khasi	�
khi	khi	Khoisan (Other)	�
khm	khm	Khmer	km
kho	kho	Khotanese	�
kik	kik	Kikuyu	�
kin	kin	Kinyarwanda	rw
kir	kir	Kirghiz	ky
kmb	kmb	Kimbundu	�
kok	kok	Konkani	�
kom	kom	Komi	�
kon	kon	Kongo	�
kor	kor	Korean	ko
kos	kos	Kosraean	�
kpe	kpe	Kpelle	�
kro	kro	Kru	�
kru	kru	Kurukh	�
kua	kua	Kuanyama	�
kum	kum	Kumyk	�
kur	kur	Kurdish	ku
kut	kut	Kutenai	�
lad	lad	Ladino	�
lah	lah	Lahnda	�
lam	lam	Lamba	�
lao	lao	Lao	lo
lat	lat	Latin	la
lav	lav	Latvian	lv
lez	lez	Lezghian	�
lin	lin	Lingala	ln
lit	lit	Lithuanian	lt
lol	lol	Mongo	�
loz	loz	Lozi	�
ltz	ltz	L�tzeburgesch	lb
lua	lua	Luba-Lulua	�
lub	lub	Luba-Katanga	�
lug	lug	Ganda	�
lui	lui	Luiseno	�
lun	lun	Lunda	�
luo	luo	Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)	�
lus	lus	Lushai	�
mad	mad	Madurese	�
mag	mag	Magahi	�
mah	mah	Marshall	�
mai	mai	Maithili	�
mak	mak	Makasar	�
mal	mal	Malayalam	ml
man	man	Mandingo	�
map	map	Austronesian (Other)	�
mar	mar	Marathi	mr
mas	mas	Masai	�
max	max	Manx	�
mdr	mdr	Mandar	�
men	men	Mende	�
mga	mga	Irish, Middle (900-1200)	�
mic	mic	Micmac	�
min	min	Minangkabau	�
mis	mis	Miscellaneous languages	�
mkd	mac	Macedonian	mk
mkh	mkh	Mon-Khmer (Other)	�
mlg	mlg	Malagasy	mg
mlt	mlt	Maltese	mt
mni	mni	Manipuri	�
mno	mno	Manobo languages	�
moh	moh	Mohawk	�
mol	mol	Moldavian	mo
mon	mon	Mongolian	mn
mos	mos	Mossi	�
mri	mao	Maori	mi
msa	may	Malay	ms
mul	mul	Multiple languages	�
mun	mun	Munda languages	�
mus	mus	Creek	�
mwr	mwr	Marwari	�
mya	bur	Burmese	my
myn	myn	Mayan languages	�
nah	nah	Aztec	�
nai	nai	North American Indian (Other)	�
nau	nau	Nauru	na
nav	nav	Navajo	�
nbl	nbl	Ndebele, South	�
nde	nde	Ndebele, North	�
ndo	ndo	Ndonga	�
nep	nep	Nepali	ne
new	new	Newari	�
nia	nia	Nias	�
nic	nic	Niger-Kordofanian (Other)	�
niu	niu	Niuean	�
nld	dut	Dutch	nl
non	non	Norse, Old	�
nor	nor	Norwegian	no
nso	nso	Sohto, Northern	�
nub	nub	Nubian languages	�
nya	nya	Nyanja	�
nym	nym	Nyamwezi	�
nyn	nyn	Nyankole	�
nyo	nyo	Nyoro	�
nzi	nzi	Nzima	�
oci	oci	Occitan (post 1500)	oc
oji	oji	Ojibwa	�
ori	ori	Oriya	�
orm	orm	Oromo	om
osa	osa	Osage	�
oss	oss	Ossetic	�
ota	ota	Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)	�
oto	oto	Otomian languages	�
paa	paa	Papuan (Other)	�
pag	pag	Pangasinan	�
pal	pal	Pahlavi	�
pam	pam	Pampanga	�
pan	pan	Panjabi	pa
pap	pap	Papiamento	�
pau	pau	Palauan	�
peo	peo	Persian, Old (ca. 600-400 B.C.)	�
phi	phi	Philippine (Other)	�
phn	phn	Phoenician	�
pli	pli	Pali	�
pol	pol	Polish	pl
pon	pon	Pohnpeian	�
por	por	Portuguese	pt
pra	pra	Prakrit languages	�
pro	pro	Proven�al, Old (to 1500)	�
pus	pus	Pushto	ps
qaa-qtz	qaa-qtz	reserved for local use	�
que	que	Quechua	qu
raj	raj	Rajasthani	�
rap	rap	Rapanui	�
rar	rar	Rarotongan	�
roa	roa	Romance (Other)	�
roh	roh	Rhaeto-Romance	rm
rom	rom	Romany	�
ron	rum	Romanian	ro
run	run	Rundi	rn
rus	rus	Russian	ru
sad	sad	Sandawe	�
sag	sag	Sango	sg
sai	sai	South American Indian (Other)	�
sal	sal	Salishan languages	�
sam	sam	Samaritan Aramaic	�
san	san	Sanskrit	sa
sas	sas	Sasak	�
sat	sat	Santali	�
sco	sco	Scots	�
sel	sel	Selkup	�
sem	sem	Semitic (Other)	�
sga	sga	Irish, Old (to 900)	�
shn	shn	Shan	�
sid	sid	Sidamo	�
sin	sin	Sinhalese	si
sio	sio	Siouan languages	�
sit	sit	Sino-Tibetan (Other)	�
sla	sla	Slavic (Other)	�
slk	slo	Slovak	sk
slv	slv	Slovenian	sl
smi	smi	S�mi languages	se
smo	smo	Samoan	sm
sna	sna	Shona	sn
snd	snd	Sindhi	sd
snk	snk	Soninke	�
sog	sog	Sogdian	�
som	som	Somali	so
son	son	Songhai	�
sot	sot	Sotho, Southern	st
spa	spa	Spanish	es
sqi	alb	Albanian	sq
srd	srd	Sardinian	�
srp	scc	Serbian	sr
srr	srr	Serer	�
ssa	ssa	Nilo-Saharan (Other)	�
ssw	ssw	Swati	ss
suk	suk	Sukuma	�
sun	sun	Sundanese	su
sus	sus	Susu	�
sux	sux	Sumerian	�
swa	swa	Swahili	sw
swe	swe	Swedish	sv
syr	syr	Syriac	�
tah	tah	Tahitian	�
tai	tai	Tai (Other)	�
tam	tam	Tamil	ta
tat	tat	Tatar	tt
tel	tel	Telugu	te
tem	tem	Timne	�
ter	ter	Tereno	�
tet	tet	Tetum	�
tgk	tgk	Tajik	tg
tgl	tgl	Tagalog	tl
tha	tha	Thai	th
tig	tig	Tigre	�
tir	tir	Tigrinya	�
tiv	tiv	Tiv	�
tkl	tkl	Tokelau	�
tli	tli	Tlingit	�
tmh	tmh	Tamashek	�
tog	tog	Tonga (Nyasa)	�
ton	ton	Tonga (Tonga Islands)	�
tpi	tpi	Tok Pisin	�
tsi	tsi	Tsimshian	�
tsn	tsn	Tswana	ts
tso	tso	Tsonga	�
tuk	tuk	T�rkmen	tk
tum	tum	Tumbuka	�
tur	tur	Turkish	�
tut	tut	Altaic (Other)	�
tvl	tvl	Tuvalu	�
twi	twi	Twi	tw
tyv	tyv	Tuvinian	�
uga	uga	Ugaritic	�
uig	uig	Uighur	ug
ukr	ukr	Ukrainian	uk
umb	umb	Umbundu	�
und	und	Undetermined	�
urd	urd	Urdu	ur
uzb	uzb	Uzbek	uz
vai	vai	Vai	�
ven	ven	Venda	�
vie	vie	Vietnamese	vi
vol	vol	Volap�k	vo
vot	vot	Votic	�
wak	wak	Wakashan languages	�
wal	wal	Walamo	�
war	war	Waray	�
was	was	Washo	�
wen	wen	Sorbian languages	�
wol	wol	Wolof	wo
xho	xho	Xhosa	xh
yao	yao	Yao	�
yap	yap	Yapese	�
yid	yid	Yiddish	yi/ji
yor	yor	Yoruba	�
ypk	ypk	Yupik languages	�
zap	zap	Zapotec	�
zen	zen	Zenaga	�
zha	zha	Zhuang	za
zho	chi	Chinese	zh
znd	znd	Zande	�
zul	zul	Zulu	zu
zun	zun	Zu�i	�
T	B	Language name (in English)	639-1