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A Language Codes

The ISO 639 standard defines two character codes for many languages. All abbreviations for languages used in the Translation Project should come from this standard.

`aa´
Afar.
`ab´
Abkhazian.
`ae´
Avestan.
`af´
Afrikaans.
`am´
Amharic.
`ar´
Arabic.
`as´
Assamese.
`ay´
Aymara.
`az´
Azerbaijani.
`ba´
Bashkir.
`be´
Byelorussian; Belarusian.
`bg´
Bulgarian.
`bh´
Bihari.
`bi´
Bislama.
`bn´
Bengali; Bangla.
`bo´
Tibetan.
`br´
Breton.
`bs´
Bosnian.
`ca´
Catalan.
`ce´
Chechen.
`ch´
Chamorro.
`co´
Corsican.
`cs´
Czech.
`cu´
Church Slavic.
`cv´
Chuvash.
`cy´
Welsh.
`da´
Danish.
`de´
German.
`dz´
Dzongkha; Bhutani.
`el´
Greek.
`en´
English.
`eo´
Esperanto.
`es´
Spanish.
`et´
Estonian.
`eu´
Basque.
`fa´
Persian.
`fi´
Finnish.
`fj´
Fijian; Fiji.
`fo´
Faroese.
`fr´
French.
`fy´
Frisian.
`ga´
Irish.
`gd´
Scots; Gaelic.
`gl´
Gallegan; Galician.
`gn´
Guarani.
`gu´
Gujarati.
`gv´
Manx.
`ha´
Hausa (?).
`he´
Hebrew (formerly iw).
`hi´
Hindi.
`ho´
Hiri Motu.
`hr´
Croatian.
`hu´
Hungarian.
`hy´
Armenian.
`hz´
Herero.
`ia´
Interlingua.
`id´
Indonesian (formerly in).
`ie´
Interlingue.
`ik´
Inupiak.
`io´
Ido.
`is´
Icelandic.
`it´
Italian.
`iu´
Inuktitut.
`ja´
Japanese.
`jv´
Javanese.
`ka´
Georgian.
`ki´
Kikuyu.
`kj´
Kuanyama.
`kk´
Kazakh.
`kl´
Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.
`km´
Khmer; Cambodian.
`kn´
Kannada.
`ko´
Korean.
`ks´
Kashmiri.
`ku´
Kurdish.
`kv´
Komi.
`kw´
Cornish.
`ky´
Kirghiz.
`la´
Latin.
`lb´
Letzeburgesch.
`ln´
Lingala.
`lo´
Lao; Laotian.
`lt´
Lithuanian.
`lv´
Latvian; Lettish.
`mg´
Malagasy.
`mh´
Marshall.
`mi´
Maori.
`mk´
Macedonian.
`ml´
Malayalam.
`mn´
Mongolian.
`mo´
Moldavian.
`mr´
Marathi.
`ms´
Malay.
`mt´
Maltese.
`my´
Burmese.
`na´
Nauru.
`nb´
Norwegian Bokmål.
`nd´
Ndebele, North.
`ne´
Nepali.
`ng´
Ndonga.
`nl´
Dutch.
`nn´
Norwegian Nynorsk.
`no´
Norwegian.
`nr´
Ndebele, South.
`nv´
Navajo.
`ny´
Chichewa; Nyanja.
`oc´
Occitan; Provençal.
`om´
(Afan) Oromo.
`or´
Oriya.
`os´
Ossetian; Ossetic.
`pa´
Panjabi; Punjabi.
`pi´
Pali.
`pl´
Polish.
`ps´
Pashto, Pushto.
`pt´
Portuguese.
`qu´
Quechua.
`rm´
Rhaeto-Romance.
`rn´
Rundi; Kirundi.
`ro´
Romanian.
`ru´
Russian.
`rw´
Kinyarwanda.
`sa´
Sanskrit.
`sc´
Sardinian.
`sd´
Sindhi.
`se´
Northern Sami.
`sg´
Sango; Sangro.
`si´
Sinhalese.
`sk´
Slovak.
`sl´
Slovenian.
`sm´
Samoan.
`sn´
Shona.
`so´
Somali.
`sq´
Albanian.
`sr´
Serbian.
`ss´
Swati; Siswati.
`st´
Sesotho; Sotho, Southern.
`su´
Sundanese.
`sv´
Swedish.
`sw´
Swahili.
`ta´
Tamil.
`te´
Telugu.
`tg´
Tajik.
`th´
Thai.
`ti´
Tigrinya.
`tk´
Turkmen.
`tl´
Tagalog.
`tn´
Tswana; Setswana.
`to´
Tonga (?).
`tr´
Turkish.
`ts´
Tsonga.
`tt´
Tatar.
`tw´
Twi.
`ty´
Tahitian.
`ug´
Uighur.
`uk´
Ukrainian.
`ur´
Urdu.
`uz´
Uzbek.
`vi´
Vietnamese.
`vo´
Volapük; Volapuk.
`wa´
Walloon.
`wo´
Wolof.
`xh´
Xhosa.
`yi´
Yiddish (formerly ji).
`yo´
Yoruba.
`za´
Zhuang.
`zh´
Chinese.
`zu´
Zulu.


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