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 Gã -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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