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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