3 # ISO 639-2 language codes
5 # From http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ :
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9 # International Standard, Codes for the representation of names of
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12 # existing ones according to criteria indicated in the standard. It
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31 # Download the file http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt
32 # and run head/tools/tools/iso/check-iso639.pl to see if everything is up
36 # a2: ISO 639-1 Alpha-2 code
37 # bib: ISO 639-2/B bibliographic code
38 # term: ISO 639-2/B terminology code
46 ady ady Adyghe; Adygei
47 afa afa Afro-Asiatic languages
55 alg alg Algonquian languages
56 alt alt Southern Altai
58 ang ang English, Old (ca.450-1100)
60 apa apa Apache languages
62 arc arc Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
65 arn arn Mapudungun; Mapuche
67 art art Artificial languages
70 ast ast Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese
71 ath ath Athapascan languages
72 aus aus Australian languages
77 az aze aze Azerbaijani
78 bad bad Banda languages
79 bai bai Bamileke languages
86 bat bat Baltic languages
87 bej bej Beja; Bedawiyet
91 ber ber Berber languages
93 bh bih bih Bihari languages
102 btk btk Batak languages
109 cai cai Central American Indian languages
111 ca cat cat Catalan; Valencian
112 cau cau Caucasian languages
114 cel cel Celtic languages
122 chn chn Chinook jargon
124 chp chp Chipewyan; Dene Suline
126 cu chu chu Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic
129 cmc cmc Chamic languages
134 cpe cpe Creoles and pidgins, English based
135 cpf cpf Creoles and pidgins, French-based
136 cpp cpp Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based
138 crh crh Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish
139 crp crp Creoles and pidgins
141 cus cus Cushitic languages
146 day day Land Dayak languages
148 den den Slave (Athapascan)
151 dv div div Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian
153 dra dra Dravidian languages
154 dsb dsb Lower Sorbian
156 dum dum Dutch, Middle (ca.1050-1350)
157 nl dut nld Dutch; Flemish
161 egy egy Egyptian (Ancient)
165 enm enm English, Middle (1100-1500)
174 fil fil Filipino; Pilipino
176 fiu fiu Finno-Ugrian languages
179 frm frm French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
180 fro fro French, Old (842-ca.1400)
181 frr frr Northern Frisian
182 frs frs Eastern Frisian
183 fy fry fry Western Frisian
189 gem gem Germanic languages
194 gd gla gla Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic
198 gmh gmh German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
199 goh goh German, Old High (ca.750-1050)
204 grc grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
205 el gre ell Greek, Modern (1453-)
207 gsw gsw Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian
211 ht hat hat Haitian; Haitian Creole
217 him him Himachali languages; Western Pahari languages
223 hsb hsb Upper Sorbian
230 ii iii iii Sichuan Yi; Nuosu
231 ijo ijo Ijo languages
233 ie ile ile Interlingue; Occidental
235 ia ina ina Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
236 inc inc Indic languages
237 id ind ind Indonesian
238 ine ine Indo-European languages
241 ira ira Iranian languages
242 iro iro Iroquoian languages
247 jpr jpr Judeo-Persian
251 kac kac Kachin; Jingpho
252 kl kal kal Kalaallisut; Greenlandic
255 kar kar Karen languages
262 khi khi Khoisan languages
263 km khm khm Central Khmer
264 kho kho Khotanese; Sakan
265 ki kik kik Kikuyu; Gikuyu
266 rw kin kin Kinyarwanda
267 ky kir kir Kirghiz; Kyrgyz
275 krc krc Karachay-Balkar
277 kro kro Kru languages
279 kj kua kua Kuanyama; Kwanyama
290 li lim lim Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish
292 lt lit lit Lithuanian
295 lb ltz ltz Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch
297 lu lub lub Luba-Katanga
301 luo luo Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
303 mk mac mkd Macedonian
306 mh mah mah Marshallese
312 map map Austronesian languages
319 mga mga Irish, Middle (900-1200)
320 mic mic Mi'kmaq; Micmac
322 mis mis Uncoded languages
323 mkh mkh Mon-Khmer languages
328 mno mno Manobo languages
332 mul mul Multiple languages
333 mun mun Munda languages
337 myn myn Mayan languages
339 nah nah Nahuatl languages
340 nai nai North American Indian languages
343 nv nav nav Navajo; Navaho
344 nr nbl nbl Ndebele, South; South Ndebele
345 nd nde nde Ndebele, North; North Ndebele
347 nds nds Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low
349 new new Nepal Bhasa; Newari
351 nic nic Niger-Kordofanian languages
353 nn nno nno Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian
354 nb nob nob Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål
359 nso nso Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho
360 nub nub Nubian languages
361 nwc nwc Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa
362 ny nya nya Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja
367 oc oci oci Occitan (post 1500); Provençal
372 os oss oss Ossetian; Ossetic
373 ota ota Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
374 oto oto Otomian languages
375 paa paa Papuan languages
378 pam pam Pampanga; Kapampangan
379 pa pan pan Panjabi; Punjabi
382 peo peo Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.)
384 phi phi Philippine languages
389 pt por por Portuguese
390 pra pra Prakrit languages
391 pro pro Provençal, Old (to 1500)
392 ps pus pus Pushto; Pashto
393 qaa-qtz qaa-qtz Reserved for local use
397 rar rar Rarotongan; Cook Islands Maori
398 roa roa Romance languages
401 ro rum ron Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
403 rup rup Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian
408 sai sai South American Indian (Other)
409 sal sal Salishan languages
410 sam sam Samaritan Aramaic
417 sem sem Semitic languages
418 sga sga Irish, Old (to 900)
419 sgn sgn Sign Languages
422 si sin sin Sinhala; Sinhalese
423 sio sio Siouan languages
424 sit sit Sino-Tibetan languages
425 sla sla Slavic languages
428 sma sma Southern Sami
429 se sme sme Northern Sami
430 smi smi Sami languages
440 son son Songhai languages
441 st sot sot Sotho, Southern
442 es spa spa Spanish; Castilian
447 ssa ssa Nilo-Saharan languages
455 syc syc Classical Syriac
458 tai tai Tai languages
473 tlh tlh Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol
476 tog tog Tonga (Nyasa)
477 to ton ton Tonga (Tonga Islands)
484 tup tup Tupi languages
486 tut tut Altaic languages
492 ug uig uig Uighur; Uyghur
500 vi vie vie Vietnamese
503 wak wak Wakashan languages
508 wen wen Sorbian languages
511 xal xal Kalmyk; Oirat
517 ypk ypk Yupik languages
519 zbl zbl Blissymbols; Blissymbolics; Bliss
521 zgh zgh Standard Moroccan Tamazight
522 za zha zha Zhuang; Chuang
523 znd znd Zande languages
526 zxx zxx No linguistic content; Not applicable
527 zza zza Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki