MARC Language Codes

Part II: Code Sequence


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NOTE: Discontinued codes are also listed in this sequence. They are identified by a hyphen preceding the code.

aar
Afar
abk
Abkhaz
ace
Achinese
ach
Acoli
ada
Adangme
ady
Adygei
afa
Afroasiatic (Other)
afh
Afrihili (Artificial language)
afr
Afrikaans
-ajm
Aljamía
aka
Akan
akk
Akkadian
alb
Albanian
ale
Aleut
alg
Algonquian (Other)
amh
Amharic
ang
English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
apa
Apache languages
ara
Arabic
arc
Aramaic
arg
Aragonese Spanish
arm
Armenian
arn
Mapuche
arp
Arapaho
art
Artificial (Other)
arw
Arawak
asm
Assamese
ast
Bable
ath
Athapascan (Other)
aus
Australian languages
ava
Avaric
ave
Avestan
awa
Awadhi
aym
Aymara
aze
Azerbaijani
bad
Banda
bai
Bamileke languages
bak
Bashkir
bal
Baluchi
bam
Bambara
ban
Balinese
baq
Basque
bas
Basa
bat
Baltic (Other)
bej
Beja
bel
Belarusian
bem
Bemba
ben
Bengali
ber
Berber (Other)
bho
Bhojpuri
bih
Bihari
bik
Bikol
bin
Edo
bis
Bislama
bla
Siksika
bnt
Bantu (Other)
bos
Bosnian
bra
Braj
bre
Breton
btk
Batak
bua
Buriat
bug
Bugis
bul
Bulgarian
bur
Burmese
cad
Caddo
cai
Central American Indian (Other)
-cam
Khmer
car
Carib
cat
Catalan
cau
Caucasian (Other)
ceb
Cebuano
cel
Celtic (Other)
cha
Chamorro
chb
Chibcha
che
Chechen
chg
Chagatai
chi
Chinese
chk
Truk
chm
Mari
chn
Chinook jargon
cho
Choctaw
chp
Chipewyan
chr
Cherokee
chu
Church Slavic
chv
Chuvash
chy
Cheyenne
cmc
Chamic languages
cop
Coptic
cor
Cornish
cos
Corsican
cpe
Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
cpf
Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)
cpp
Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
cre
Cree
crh
Crimean Tatar
crp
Creoles and Pidgins (Other)
cus
Cushitic (Other)
cze
Czech
dak
Dakota
dan
Danish
dar
Dargwa
day
Dayak
del
Delaware
den
Slave
dgr
Dogrib
din
Dinka
div
Divehi
doi
Dogri
dra
Dravidian (Other)
dua
Duala
dum
Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
dut
Dutch
dyu
Dyula
dzo
Dzongkha
efi
Efik
egy
Egyptian
eka
Ekajuk
elx
Elamite
eng
English
enm
English, Middle (1100-1500)
epo
Esperanto
-esk
Eskimo languages
-esp
Esperanto
est
Estonian
-eth
Ethiopic
ewe
Ewe
ewo
Ewondo
fan
Fang
fao
Faroese
-far
Faroese
fat
Fanti
fij
Fijian
fin
Finnish
fiu
Finno-Ugrian (Other)
fon
Fon
fre
French
-fri
Frisian
frm
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
fro
French, Old (ca. 842-1400)
fry
Frisian
ful
Fula
fur
Friulian
gaa
-gae
Scottish Gaelic
-gag
Galician
-gal
Oromo
gay
Gayo
gba
Gbaya
gem
Germanic (Other)
geo
Georgian
ger
German
gez
Ethiopic
gil
Gilbertese
gla
Scottish Gaelic
gle
Irish
glg
Galician
glv
Manx
gmh
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
goh
German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)
gon
Gondi
gor
Gorontalo
got
Gothic
grb
Grebo
grc
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
gre
Greek, Modern (1453- )
grn
Guarani
-gua
Guarani
guj
Gujarati
gwi
Gwich'in
hai
Haida
hat
Haitian French Creole
hau
Hausa
haw
Hawaiian
heb
Hebrew
her
Herero
hil
Hiligaynon
him
Himachali
hin
Hindi
hit
Hittite
hmn
Hmong
hmo
Hiri Motu
hun
Hungarian
hup
Hupa
iba
Iban
ibo
Igbo
ice
Icelandic
ido
Ido
iii
Sichuan Yi
ijo
Ijo
iku
Inuktitut
ile
Interlingue
ilo
Iloko
ina
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
inc
Indic (Other)
ind
Indonesian
ine
Indo-European (Other)
inh
Ingush
-int
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
ipk
Inupiaq
ira
Iranian (Other)
-iri
Irish
iro
Iroquoian (Other)
ita
Italian
jav
Javanese
jpn
Japanese
jpr
Judeo-Persian
jrb
Judeo-Arabic
kaa
Kara-Kalpak
kab
Kabyle
kac
Kachin
kal
Kalâtdlisut
kam
Kamba
kan
Kannada
kar
Karen
kas
Kashmiri
kau
Kanuri
kaw
Kawi
kaz
Kazakh
kbd
Kabardian
kha
Khasi
khi
Khoisan (Other)
khm
Khmer
kho
Khotanese
kik
Kikuyu
kin
Kinyarwanda
kir
Kyrgyz
kmb
Kimbundu
kok
Konkani
kom
Komi
kon
Kongo
kor
Korean
kos
Kusaie
kpe
Kpelle
kro
Kru
kru
Kurukh
kua
Kuanyama
kum
Kumyk
kur
Kurdish
-kus
Kusaie
kut
Kutenai
lad
Ladino
lah
Lahnda
lam
Lamba
-lan
Occitan (post-1500)
lao
Lao
-lap
Sami
lat
Latin
lav
Latvian
lez
Lezgian
lim
Limburgish
lin
Lingala
lit
Lithuanian
lol
Mongo-Nkundu
loz
Lozi
ltz
Letzeburgesch
lua
Luba-Lulua
lub
Luba-Katanga
lug
Ganda
lui
Luiseño
lun
Lunda
luo
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
lus
Lushai
mac
Macedonian
mad
Madurese
mag
Magahi
mah
Marshallese
mai
Maithili
mak
Makasar
mal
Malayalam
man
Mandingo
mao
Maori
map
Austronesian (Other)
mar
Marathi
mas
Masai
-max
Manx
may
Malay
mdr
Mandar
men
Mende
mga
Irish, Middle (ca. 1100-1550)
mic
Micmac
min
Minangkabau
mis
Miscellaneous languages
mkh
Mon-Khmer (Other)
-mla
Malagasy
mlg
Malagasy
mlt
Maltese
mnc
Manchu
mni
Manipuri
mno
Manobo languages
moh
Mohawk
mol
Moldavian
mon
Mongolian
mos
Mooré
mul
Multiple languages
mun
Munda (Other)
mus
Creek
mwr
Marwari
myn
Mayan languages
nah
Nahuatl
nai
North American Indian (Other)
nap
Neapolitan Italian
nau
Nauru
nav
Navajo
nbl
Ndebele (South Africa)
nde
Ndebele (Zimbabwe)
ndo
Ndonga
nds
Low German
nep
Nepali
new
Newari
nia
Nias
nic
Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
niu
Niuean
nno
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
nob
Norwegian (Bokmål)
nog
Nogai
non
Old Norse
nor
Norwegian
nso
Northern Sotho
nub
Nubian languages
nya
Nyanja
nym
Nyamwezi
nyn
Nyankole
nyo
Nyoro
nzi
Nzima
oci
Occitan (post-1500)
oji
Ojibwa
ori
Oriya
orm
Oromo
osa
Osage
oss
Ossetic
ota
Turkish, Ottoman
oto
Otomian languages
paa
Papuan (Other)
pag
Pangasinan
pal
Pahlavi
pam
Pampanga
pan
Panjabi
pap
Papiamento
pau
Palauan
peo
Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)
per
Persian
phi
Philippine (Other)
phn
Phoenician
pli
Pali
pol
Polish
pon
Ponape
por
Portuguese
pra
Prakrit languages
pro
Provençal (to 1500)
pus
Pushto
que
Quechua
raj
Rajasthani
rap
Rapanui
rar
Rarotongan
roa
Romance (Other)
roh
Raeto-Romance
rom
Romani
rum
Romanian
run
Rundi
rus
Russian
sad
Sandawe
sag
Sango (Ubangi Creole)
sah
Yakut
sai
South American Indian (Other)
sal
Salishan languages
sam
Samaritan Aramaic
san
Sanskrit
-sao
Samoan
sas
Sasak
sat
Santali
scc
Serbian
sco
Scots
scr
Croatian
sel
Selkup
sem
Semitic (Other)
sga
Irish, Old (to 1100)
sgn
Sign languages
shn
Shan
-sho
Shona
sid
Sidamo
sin
Sinhalese
sio
Siouan (Other)
sit
Sino-Tibetan (Other)
sla
Slavic (Other)
slo
Slovak
slv
Slovenian
sma
Southern Sami
sme
Northern Sami
smi
Sami
smj
Lule Sami
smn
Inari Sami
smo
Samoan
sms
Skolt Sami
sna
Shona
snd
Sindhi
-snh
Sinhalese
snk
Soninke
sog
Sogdian
som
Somali
son
Songhai
sot
Sotho
spa
Spanish
srd
Sardinian
srr
Serer
ssa
Nilo-Saharan (Other)
-sso
Sotho
ssw
Swazi
suk
Sukuma
sun
Sundanese
sus
Susu
sux
Sumerian
swa
Swahili
swe
Swedish
-swz
Swazi
syr
Syriac
-tag
Tagalog
tah
Tahitian
tai
Tai (Other)
-taj
Tajik
tam
Tamil
-tar
Tatar
tat
Tatar
tel
Telugu
tem
Temne
ter
Terena
tet
Tetum
tgk
Tajik
tgl
Tagalog
tha
Thai
tib
Tibetan
tig
Tigré
tir
Tigrinya
tiv
Tiv
tkl
Tokelauan
tli
Tlingit
tmh
Tamashek
tog
Tonga (Nyasa)
ton
Tongan
tpi
Tok Pisin
-tru
Truk
tsi
Tsimshian
tsn
Tswana
tso
Tsonga
-tsw
Tswana
tuk
Turkmen
tum
Tumbuka
tup
Tupi languages
tur
Turkish
tut
Altaic (Other)
tvl
Tuvaluan
twi
Twi
tyv
Tuvinian
udm
Udmurt
uga
Ugaritic
uig
Uighur
ukr
Ukrainian
umb
Umbundu
und
Undetermined
urd
Urdu
uzb
Uzbek
vai
Vai
ven
Venda
vie
Vietnamese
vol
Volapük
vot
Votic
wak
Wakashan languages
wal
Walamo
war
Waray
was
Washo
wel
Welsh
wen
Sorbian languages
wln
Walloon
wol
Wolof
xal
Kalmyk
xho
Xhosa
yao
Yao (Africa)
yap
Yapese
yid
Yiddish
yor
Yoruba
ypk
Yupik languages
zap
Zapotec
zen
Zenaga
zha
Zhuang
znd
Zande
zul
Zulu
zun
Zuni

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