ISO 639

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ISO 639 is one of several international standards that list short codes for language names. ISO 639 consists of different parts, of which two parts are currently published. The other parts are works in progress.

There are two items for ISO 639:

  • ISO 639-1:2002 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 1: Alpha-2 code
  • ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 2: Alpha-3 code

In other words, there are two-letter codes and three-letter codes. Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes. For these languages, the first three-letter code is for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B), and the second three-letter code is for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T).

The following parts are still being developed:

  • ISO 639-3:2006? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages [1]
  • ISO 639-4:2007? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 4: Implementation guidelines and general principles for language coding
  • ISO 639-5:2006? Codes for the representation of names of languages -- Part 5: Alpha-3 code for language families and groups

ISO 639-2

Two codes for special situations (mul, "multiple languages", and und, "undetermined language") are defined in the standard. Additionally a code for Miscellaneous languages (mis) is defined.

The following incomplete list is sorted by language name in the third column.

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A

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
abk ab Abkhazian
ace   Achinese
ach   Acoli
ada   Adangme
ady   Adyghe; Adygei
aar aa Afar
afh   Afrihili
afr af Afrikaans
afa   Afro-Asiatic (Other)
ain   Ainu
aka ak Akan
akk   Akkadian
alb/sqi sq Albanian
ale   Aleut
alg   Algonquian languages
tut   Altaic (Other)
amh am Amharic
apa   Apache languages
ara ar Arabic
arg an Aragonese
arc   Aramaic
arp   Arapaho
arn   Araucanian
arw   Arawak
arm/hye hy Armenian
art   Artificial (Other)
asm as Assamese
ast   Asturian; Bable
ath   Athapascan languages
aus   Australian languages
map   Austronesian (Other)
ava av Avaric
ave ae Avestan
awa   Awadhi
aym ay Aymara
aze az Azerbaijani

B

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
ban   Balinese
bat   Baltic (Other)
bal   Baluchi
bam bm Bambara Bamanankan
bai   Bamileke languages
bad   Banda
bnt   Bantu (Other)
bas   Basa
bak ba Bashkir
baq/eus eu Basque
btk   Batak (Indonesia)
bej   Beja
bel be Belarusian
bem   Bemba
ben bn Bangla
ber   Berber (Other)
bho   Bhojpuri
bih bh Bihari
bik   Bikol
bin   Bini
bis bi Bislama
byn   Blin; Bilin
bos bs Bosnian
bra   Braj
bre br Breton
bug   Buginese
bul bg Bulgarian
bua   Buriat
bur/mya my Burmese

C

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
cad   Caddo
car   Carib
cat ca Catalan; Valencian
cau   Caucasian (Other)
ceb   Cebuano
cel   Celtic (Other)
cai   Central American Indian (Other)
chg   Chagatai
cmc   Chamic languages
cha ch Chamorro
che ce Chechen
chr   Cherokee
chy   Cheyenne
chb   Chibcha
nya ny Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja
chi/zho zh Chinese
chn   Chinook jargon
chp   Chipewyan
cho   Choctaw
chu cu Church Slavonic; Church Slavic; Old Church Slavonic; Old Slavonic; Old Bulgarian
chk   Chuukese
chv cv Chuvash
nwc   Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa
cop   Coptic
cor kw Cornish
cos co Corsican
cre cr Cree
mus   Creek
crp   Creoles and Pidgins (Other)
cpe   Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
cpf   Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)
cpp   Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
crh   Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish
scr/hrv hr Croatian
cus   Cushitic (Other)
cze/ces cs Czech

D

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
dak   Dakota
dan da Danish
dar   Dargwa
day   Dayak
del   Delaware
din   Dinka
div dv Divehi
doi   Dogri
dgr   Dogrib
dra   Dravidian (Other)
dua   Duala
dut/nld nl Dutch; Flemish
dum   Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050–1350)
dyu   Dyula
dzo dz Dzongkha

E

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
efi   Efik
egy   Egyptian (Ancient)
eka   Ekajuk
elx   Elamite
eng en English
enm   English, Middle (ca. 1100–1500)
ang   English, Old (ca. 450–1100)
myv   Erzya
epo eo Esperanto
est et Estonian
ewe ee Ewe
ewo   Ewondo

F

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
fan   Fang
fat   Fanti
fao fo Faroese
fij fj Fijian
fil   Filipino
fin fi Finnish
fiu   Finno-Ugrian (Other)
fon   Fon
fre/fra fr French Français
frm   French, Middle (ca. 1400–1600)
fro   French, Old (842–ca. 1400)
fry fy Frisian
fur   Friulian
ful ff Fulah Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular

G

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
gaa   Ga
glg gl Galician
lug lg Ganda
gay   Gayo
gba   Gbaya
gez   Geez
geo/kat ka Georgian Kartuli
ger/deu de German Deutsch
nds   German, Low; Low German; Saxon, Low; Low Saxon Nederdüütsch, Niederdeutsch
gmh   German, Middle High (ca. 1050–1500) Mittelhochdeutsch
goh   German, Old High (ca. 750–1050) Althochdeutsch
gem   Germanic (Other)
gil   Gilbertese; Kiribati
gon   Gondi
gor   Gorontalo
got   Gothic
grb   Grebo
grc   Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
gre/ell el Greek, Modern (1453–)
kal kl Greenlandic; Kalaallisut
grn gn Guarani
guj gu Gujarati
gwi   Gwich´in

H

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
hai   Haida
hat ht Haitian Creole; Haitian Kreyòl ayisyen
hau ha Hausa هَوُسَ
haw   Hawaiian ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i
heb he Hebrew עברית
her hz Herero
hil   Hiligaynon
him   Himachali
hin hi Hindi हिन्दी
hmo ho Hiri Motu
hit   Hittite
hmn   Hmong
hun hu Hungarian Magyar
hup   Hupa

I

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
iba   Iban
ice/isl is Icelandic
ido io Ido
ibo ig Igbo
ijo   Ijo
ilo   Iloko
smn   Inari Sami
inc   Indic (Other)
ine   Indo-European (Other)
ind id Indonesian
inh   Ingush
ina ia Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
ile ie Interlingue
iku iu Inuktitut
ipk ik Inupiaq
ira   Iranian (Other)
gle ga Irish
mga   Irish, Middle (900–1200)
sga   Irish, Old (to 900)
iro   Iroquoian languages
ita it Italian

J

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
jpn ja Japanese 日本語
jav jv Javanese
jrb   Judeo-Arabic
jpr   Judeo-Persian

K

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
kbd   Kabardian
kab   Kabyle
kac   Kachin
xal   Kalmyk; Oirat
kam   Kamba
kan kn Kannada
kau kr Kanuri
krc   Karachay-Balkar
kaa   Kara-Kalpak
kar   Karen
kas ks Kashmiri
csb   Kashubian
kaw   Kawi
kaz kk Kazakh
kha   Khasi
khm km Khmer
khi   Khoisan (Other)
kho   Khotanese
kik ki Kikuyu; Gikuyu
kmb   Kimbundu
kin rw Kinyarwanda
kir ky Kirghiz
tlh   Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol
kom kv Komi
kon kg Kongo
kok   Konkani
kor ko Korean
kos   Kosraean
kpe   Kpelle
kro   Kru
kua kj Kuanyama; Kwanyama
kum   Kumyk
kur ku Kurdish
kru   Kurukh
kut   Kutenai

L

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
lad   Ladino
lah   Lahnda
lam   Lamba
lao lo Lao
lat la Latin
lav lv Latvian
lez   Lezghian
lim li Limburgish; Limburger; Limburgan
lin ln Lingala
lit lt Lithuanian
jbo   Lojban
dsb   Lower Sorbian
loz   Lozi
lub lu Luba-Katanga
lua   Luba-Lulua
lui   Luiseno
smj   Lule Sami
lun   Lunda
luo   Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
lus   Lushai
ltz lb Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch

M

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
mac/mkd mk Macedonian
mad   Madurese
mag   Magahi
mai   Maithili
mak   Makasar
mlg mg Malagasy
may/msa ms Malay
mal ml Malayalam
mlt mt Maltese
mnc   Manchu
mdr   Mandar
man   Mandingo
mni   Manipuri
mno   Manobo languages
glv gv Manx
mao/mri mi Maori
mar mr Marathi
chm   Mari
mah mh Marshallese
mwr   Marwari
mas   Masai
myn   Mayan languages
men   Mende
mic   Mi'kmaq; Micmac
min   Minangkabau
mwl   Mirandese
mis   Miscellaneous languages
moh   Mohawk
mdf   Moksha
mol mo Moldavian
mkh   Mon-Khmer (Other)
lol   Mongo
mon mn Mongolian
mos   Mossi
mul   Multiple languages (several languages used)
mun   Munda languages

N

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
nah   Nahuatl
nau na Nauruan
nav nv Navajo; Navaho
nde nd Ndebele, North
nbl nr Ndebele, South
ndo ng Ndonga
nap   Neapolitan
nep ne Nepali
new   Newari; Nepal Bhasa
nia   Nias
nic   Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
ssa   Nilo-Saharan (Other)
niu   Niuean
nog   Nogai
non   Norse, Old
nai   North American Indian (Other)
sme se Northern Sami
nor no Norwegian
nob nb Norwegian Bokmål
nno nn Norwegian Nynorsk
nub   Nubian languages
nym   Nyamwezi
nyn   Nyankole
nyo   Nyoro
nzi   Nzima

O

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
oci oc Occitan (post 1500); Provençal
oji oj Ojibwa
ori or Oriya
orm om Oromo
osa   Osage
oss os Ossetian; Ossetic
oto   Otomian languages

P

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
pal   Pahlavi
pau   Palauan
pli pi Pali
pam   Pampanga; Kapampangan
pag   Pangasinan
pap   Papiamento
paa   Papuan (Other)
per/fas fa Persian
peo   Persian, Old (ca. 600–400 BC)
phi   Philippine (Other)
phn   Phoenician
pon   Pohnpeian
pol pl Polish
por pt Portuguese
pra   Prakrit languages
pro   Provençal, Old (to 1500)
pan pa Punjabi; Panjabi
pus ps Pushto

Q

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
que qu Quechua

R

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
roh rm Raeto-Romance
raj   Rajasthani
rap   Rapanui
rar   Rarotongan
qaa-qtz   Reserved for local use
roa   Romance (Other)
rum/ron ro Romanian
rom   Romany
run rn Rundi
rus ru Russian Русский

S

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
sal   Salishan languages
sam   Samaritan Aramaic
smi   Sami languages (Other)
smo sm Samoan
sad   Sandawe
sag sg Sango
san sa Sanskrit
sat   Santali
srd sc Sardinian
sas   Sasak
sco   Scots
gla gd Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic
sel   Selkup
sem   Semitic (Other)
scc/srp sr Serbian
srr   Serer
shn   Shan
sna sn Shona
iii ii Sichuan Yi
scn   Sicilian
sid   Sidamo
sgn   Sign languages
bla   Siksika
snd sd Sindhi
sin si Sinhalese; Sinhala
sit   Sino-Tibetan (Other)
sio   Siouan languages
sms   Skolt Sami
den   Slave (Athapascan)
sla   Slavic (Other)
slo/slk sk Slovak
slv sl Slovenian
sog   Sogdian
som so Somali
son   Songhai
snk   Soninke
wen   Sorbian languages
nso   Sotho, Northern; Pedi; Sepedi
sot st Sotho, Southern
sai   South American Indian (Other)
alt   Southern Altai
sma   Southern Sami
spa es Spanish; Castilian
suk   Sukuma
sux   Sumerian
sun su Sundanese
sus   Susu
swa sw Swahili
ssw ss Swati
swe sv Swedish
syr   Syriac

T

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
tgl tl Tagalog
tah ty Tahitian
tai   Tai (Other)
tgk tg Tajik
tmh   Tamashek
tam ta Tamil
tat tt Tatar
tel te Telugu
ter   Tereno
tet   Tetum
tha th Thai
tib/bod bo Tibetan
tig   Tigre
tir ti Tigrinya
tem   Timne
tiv   Tiv
tli   Tlingit
tpi   Tok Pisin
tkl   Tokelau
tog   Tonga (Nyasa)
ton to Tonga (Tonga Islands)
tsi   Tsimshian
tso ts Tsonga
tsn tn Tswana
tum   Tumbuka
tup   Tupi languages
tur tr Turkish
ota   Turkish, Ottoman (1500–1928)
tuk tk Turkmen
tvl   Tuvalu
tyv   Tuvinian
twi tw Twi

U

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
udm   Udmurt
uga   Ugaritic
uig ug Uighur; Uyghur
ukr uk Ukrainian
umb   Umbundu
und   Undetermined (language or languages cannot be identified)
hsb   Upper Sorbian
urd ur Urdu
uzb uz Uzbek

V

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
vai   Vai
ven ve Venda
vie vi Vietnamese
vol vo Volapük
vot   Votic

W

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
wak   Wakashan languages
wal   Walamo
wln wa Walloon
war   Waray
was   Washo
wel/cym cy Welsh Cymraeg
wol wo Wolof
wuu   Wu Chinese (Shanghainese)

X

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
xho xh Xhosa

Y

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
sah   Yakut
yao   Yao
yap   Yapese
yid yi Yiddish
yor yo Yoruba
ypk   Yupik languages

Z

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name
znd   Zande
zap   Zapotec
zen   Zenaga
zha za Zhuang; Chuang
zul zu Zulu
zun   Zuni

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