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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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
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
133 cpe cpe Creoles and pidgins, English based
134 cpf cpf Creoles and pidgins, French-based
135 cpp cpp Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based
137 crh crh Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish
138 crp crp Creoles and pidgins
140 cus cus Cushitic languages
145 day day Land Dayak languages
147 den den Slave (Athapascan)
150 dv div div Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian
152 dra dra Dravidian languages
153 dsb dsb Lower Sorbian
155 dum dum Dutch, Middle (ca.1050-1350)
156 nl dut nld Dutch; Flemish
160 egy egy Egyptian (Ancient)
164 enm enm English, Middle (1100-1500)
173 fil fil Filipino; Pilipino
175 fiu fiu Finno-Ugrian languages
178 frm frm French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
179 fro fro French, Old (842-ca.1400)
180 frr frr Northern Frisian
181 frs frs Eastern Frisian
182 fy fry fry Western Frisian
188 gem gem Germanic languages
193 gd gla gla Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic
197 gmh gmh German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
198 goh goh German, Old High (ca.750-1050)
203 grc grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
204 el gre ell Greek, Modern (1453-)
206 gsw gsw Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian
210 ht hat hat Haitian; Haitian Creole
222 hsb hsb Upper Sorbian
229 ii iii iii Sichuan Yi; Nuosu
230 ijo ijo Ijo languages
232 ie ile ile Interlingue; Occidental
234 ia ina ina Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
235 inc inc Indic languages
236 id ind ind Indonesian
237 ine ine Indo-European languages
240 ira ira Iranian languages
241 iro iro Iroquoian languages
246 jpr jpr Judeo-Persian
250 kac kac Kachin; Jingpho
251 kl kal kal Kalaallisut; Greenlandic
254 kar kar Karen languages
261 khi khi Khoisan languages
262 km khm khm Central Khmer
263 kho kho Khotanese; Sakan
264 ki kik kik Kikuyu; Gikuyu
265 rw kin kin Kinyarwanda
266 ky kir kir Kirghiz; Kyrgyz
274 krc krc Karachay-Balkar
276 kro kro Kru languages
278 kj kua kua Kuanyama; Kwanyama
289 li lim lim Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish
291 lt lit lit Lithuanian
294 lb ltz ltz Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch
296 lu lub lub Luba-Katanga
300 luo luo Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
302 mk mac mkd Macedonian
305 mh mah mah Marshallese
311 map map Austronesian languages
318 mga mga Irish, Middle (900-1200)
319 mic mic Mi'kmaq; Micmac
321 mis mis Uncoded languages
322 mkh mkh Mon-Khmer languages
327 mno mno Manobo languages
331 mul mul Multiple languages
332 mun mun Munda languages
336 myn myn Mayan languages
338 nah nah Nahuatl languages
339 nai nai North American Indian languages
342 nv nav nav Navajo; Navaho
343 nr nbl nbl Ndebele, South; South Ndebele
344 nd nde nde Ndebele, North; North Ndebele
346 nds nds Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low
348 new new Nepal Bhasa; Newari
350 nic nic Niger-Kordofanian languages
355 nn nno nno Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian
356 nb nob nob Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål
358 nso nso Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho
359 nub nub Nubian languages
360 nwc nwc Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa
361 ny nya nya Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja
366 oc oci oci Occitan (post 1500); Provençal
371 os oss oss Ossetian; Ossetic
372 ota ota Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
373 oto oto Otomian languages
374 paa paa Papuan languages
377 pam pam Pampanga; Kapampangan
378 pa pan pan Panjabi; Punjabi
381 peo peo Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.)
383 phi phi Philippine languages
388 pt por por Portuguese
389 pra pra Prakrit languages
390 pro pro Provençal, Old (to 1500)
391 ps pus pus Pushto; Pashto
392 qaa-qtz qaa-qtz Reserved for local use
396 rar rar Rarotongan; Cook Islands Maori
397 roa roa Romance languages
400 ro rum ron Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
402 rup rup Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian
407 sai sai South American Indian (Other)
408 sal sal Salishan languages
409 sam sam Samaritan Aramaic
416 sem sem Semitic languages
417 sga sga Irish, Old (to 900)
418 sgn sgn Sign Languages
421 si sin sin Sinhala; Sinhalese
422 sio sio Siouan languages
423 sit sit Sino-Tibetan languages
424 sla sla Slavic languages
427 sma sma Southern Sami
428 se sme sme Northern Sami
429 smi smi Sami languages
439 son son Songhai languages
440 st sot sot Sotho, Southern
441 es spa spa Spanish; Castilian
446 ssa ssa Nilo-Saharan languages
454 syc syc Classical Syriac
457 tai tai Tai languages
473 tlh tlh Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol
475 tog tog Tonga (Nyasa)
476 to ton ton Tonga (Tonga Islands)
483 tup tup Tupi languages
485 tut tut Altaic languages
491 ug uig uig Uighur; Uyghur
499 vi vie vie Vietnamese
502 wak wak Wakashan languages
507 wen wen Sorbian languages
510 xal xal Kalmyk; Oirat
516 ypk ypk Yupik languages
518 zbl zbl Blissymbols; Blissymbolics; Bliss
520 za zha zha Zhuang; Chuang
521 znd znd Zande languages
524 zxx zxx No linguistic content; Not applicable
525 zza zza Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki