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List of ISO 639-2 codes 

ISO 639 has five code lists. The following is a complete list of ISO 639-2 codes, including the corresponding ISO 639-1 codes where they exist. The codes are sorted by language name in the third column. The ISO 639-3 codes are not included.

The standard defines some codes for special situations:

  • mis, for "uncoded languages";
  • mul, for "multiple languages";
  • und, for "undetermined";
  • zxx, for "no linguistic content; not applicable".

There is also a range reserved for local use: qaa-qtz.

Where two alpha-3 codes are given in the table, the first is the bibliographic code (B code) and the second is the terminological code (T code).

Contents
0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


A

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
abk ab Abkhazian Аҧсуа
ace   Acehnese, Achinese Basa Acèh
ach   Acoli
ada   Adangme adangbɛ
ady   Adyghe; Adygei адыгэбзэ; адыгабзэ
aar aa Afar Afaraf
afh   Afrihili
afr af Afrikaans Afrikaans
afa   Afro-Asiatic (Other)
ain   Ainu アイヌ イタㇰ(イタッㇰ) or ainu itak
aka ak Akan
akk   Akkadian akkadû; lišānum akkadītum
alb/sqi sq Albanian Shqip
ale   Aleut
alg   Algonquian languages
tut   Altaic (Other)
amh am Amharic አማርኛ
anp   Angika
apa   Apache languages
ara ar Arabic العربية
arg an Aragonese Aragonés
arc   Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ
arp   Arapaho Hinóno'eitíít
arn   Araucanian; Mapudungun; Mapuche mapudungun; mapuchedungun
arw   Arawak
arm/hye hy Armenian Հայերեն լեզու
rup   Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian Armãneashce; Armãneashti; Limba armãneascã
art   Artificial (Other)
asm as Assamese অসমীয়া
ast   Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese asturianu; Bable, Llionés; Asturllionés
ath   Athapascan languages
aus   Australian languages
map   Austronesian (Other)
ava av Avaric авар мацӀ; магӀарул мацӀ
ave ae Avestan avesta
awa   Awadhi अवधी
aym ay Aymara aymar aru
aze az Azerbaijani Azərbaycanca

B

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
ban   Balinese Basa Bali
bat   Baltic (Other)
bal   Baluchi بلوچی
bam bm Bambara bamanankan
bai   Bamileke languages
bad   Banda languages
bnt   Bantu (Other)
bas   Basa ɓasaá
bak ba Bashkir башҡорт теле
baq/eus eu Basque euskara
btk   Batak
bej   Beja; Bedawiyet بداوية
bel be Belarusian Беларуская мова
bem   Bemba ichiBemba
ben bn Bengali বাংলা
ber   Berber (Other)
bho   Bhojpuri भोजपुरी
bih bh Bihari
bik   Bikol languages
bin   Bini; Edo Edo
bis bi Bislama Bislama
byn   Blin; Bilin ብሊና
bos bs Bosnian bosanski jezik
bra   Braj ब्रज भाषा
bre br Breton brezhoneg
bug   Buginese ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ
bul bg Bulgarian български език
bua   Buriat буряад хэлэн
bur/mya my Burmese ျမန္မာစာ

C

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
cad   Caddo Hasí:nay
car   Carib
cat ca Catalan; Valencian català
cau   Caucasian (Other)
ceb   Cebuano Sinugboanon
cel   Celtic (Other)
cai   Central American Indian (Other)
chg   Chagatai جغتای
cmc   Chamic languages
cha ch Chamorro Chamoru
che ce Chechen нохчийн мотт
chr   Cherokee ᏣᎳᎩ
chy   Cheyenne Tsêhést
chb   Chibcha
nya ny Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja chiCheŵa; chinyanja
chi/zho zh Chinese 中文
chn   Chinook jargon
cho   Choctaw Chahta Anumpa
chu cu Church Slavonic; Church Slavic;
Old Church Slavonic; Old Slavonic;
Old Bulgarian		 ѩзыкъ словѣньскъ
chk   Chuukese
chv cv Chuvash чӑваш чӗлхи
nwc   Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa
syc   Classical Syriac
cop   Coptic ⲙⲉⲧⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
cor kw Cornish Kernewek
cos co Corsican corsu; lingua corsa
cre cr Cree ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ
mus   Creek; Muskogean Maskoki; Mvskokē empunakv
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 qırımtatar tili, къырымтатар тили
hrv[1] hr Croatian hrvatski jezik
cus   Cushitic (Other)
cze/ces cs Czech čeština (substantive); česky (adverb)

D

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
dak   Dakota Lakhota
dan da Danish dansk
dar   Dargwa дарган мез
day   Dayak
del   Delaware Lënape
chp   Dene Suline Dëne Sųłiné; ᑌᓀᓲᒢᕄᓀ
din   Dinka Thuɔŋjäŋ
div dv Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian ދިވެހިބަސ
doi   Dogri डोगरी
dgr   Dogrib Tłįchǫ
dra   Dravidian (Other)
dua   Duala
dut/nld nl Dutch; Flemish Nederlands
dum   Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050–1350)
dyu   Dyula Julakan
dzo dz Dzongkha རྫོང་ཁ

E

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native 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) Englisc
myv   Erzya эрзянь кель
epo eo Esperanto Esperanto
est et Estonian eesti keel
ewe ee Ewe Ɛʋɛgbɛ
ewo   Ewondo

F

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
fan   Fang
fat   Fanti
fao fo Faroese føroyskt
fij fj Fijian vosa Vakaviti
fil   Filipino
fin fi Finnish suomi; suomen kieli
fiu   Finno-Ugrian (Other)
fon   Fon Fɔngbe
fre/fra fr French français; langue française
frm   French, Middle (ca. 1400—1600)
fro   French, Old (842—ca. 1400)
frs   Frisian, Eastern Seeltersk Fräisk; Seeltersk; Fräisk
frr   Frisian, Northern
fry fy Frisian, Western frysk
fur   Friulian furlan
ful ff Fulah Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular

G

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
gaa   Ga Gã
glg gl Galician Galego
lug lg Ganda Luganda
gay   Gayo
gba   Gbaya
gez   Ge'ez ግዕዝ
geo/kat ka Georgian ქართული ენა (kartuli ena)
ger/deu de German Deutsch
gsw   Swiss German, Alemannic Schwyzerdütsch, Alemannisch
nds   German, Low; Low German; Saxon, Low; Low Saxon Nederdüütsch, Plattdüütsch
gmh   German, Middle High (ca. 1050–1500) diutisk
goh   German, Old High (ca. 750–1050) diutisc
gem   Germanic (Other)
gil   Gilbertese; Kiribati taetae ni Kiribati
gon   Gondi Gōndi
gor   Gorontalo
got   Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺
grb   Grebo
grc   Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Ἑλληνικά
gre/ell el Greek, Modern (1453–) Ελληνικά
kal kl Greenlandic; Kalaallisut kalaallisut; kalaallit oqaasii
grn gn Guarani Avañe'ẽ
guj gu Gujarati ગુજરાતી
gwi   Gwichʼin

H

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
hai   Haida X̲aat Kíl
hat ht Haitian Creole; Haitian Kreyòl ayisyen
hau ha Hausa Hausancī; هَوُسَ
haw   Hawaiian ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i
heb he Hebrew עִבְרִית; עברית
her hz Herero Otjiherero
hil   Hiligaynon Ilonggo
him   Himachali
hin hi Hindi हिन्दी
hmo ho Hiri Motu Hiri Motu
hit   Hittite
hmn   Hmong Hmoob
hun hu Hungarian magyar
hup   Hupa Na:tinixwe Mixine:whe

I

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

J

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
jpn ja Japanese 日本語 (にほんご)
jav jv Javanese basa Jawa
jrb   Judeo-Arabic
jpr   Judeo-Persian

K

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
kbd   Kabardian къэбэрдеибзэ
kab   Kabyle Taqbaylit
kac   Kachin; Jingpho Jingpho; Marip
xal   Kalmyk; Oirat хальмг келн
kam   Kamba
kan kn Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ
kau kr Kanuri
krc   Karachay-Balkar къарачай-малкъар тил
kaa   Kara-Kalpak қарақалпақ тили
krl   Karelian karjalan kieli
kar   Karen languages
kas ks Kashmiri कॉशुर; کٲشُر
csb   Kashubian kaszëbsczi jãzëk
kaw   Kawi Bhāṣa Kawi
kaz kk Kazakh Қазақ тілі
kha   Khasi Khasi
khm km Central Khmer Image:PhiesaKhmae.gif
khi   Khoisan (Other)
kho   Khotanese
kik ki Kikuyu; Gikuyu Gĩkũyũ
kmb   Kimbundu
kin rw Kinyarwanda kinyaRwanda
kir ky Kirghiz; Kyrgyz кыргыз тили
tlh   Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol tlhIngan Hol
kom kv Komi коми кыв
kon kg Kongo Kikongo
kok   Konkani कोंकणी
kor ko Korean 한국어 (韓國語); 조선말 (朝鮮語)
kos   Kosraean Kosrae
kpe   Kpelle kpele
kro   Kru languages
kua kj Kuanyama; Kwanyama
kum   Kumyk Кумык
kur ku Kurdish Kurdî
kru   Kurukh
kut   Kutenai Ktunaxa

L

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
lad   Ladino ג'ודיאו-איספאנייול
lah   Lahnda ਲਹਿੰਦੀ
lam   Lamba
lao lo Lao ພາສາລາວ
lat la Latin latine; lingua latina
lav lv Latvian latviešu valoda
lez   Lezghian лезги чӀал
lim li Limburgish; Limburger; Limburgan Limburgs
lin ln Lingala lingala
lit lt Lithuanian lietuvių kalba
jbo   Lojban lojban
loz   Lozi siLozi
lub lu Luba-Katanga
lua   Luba-Lulua lwaà:
lui   Luiseño
smj   Lule Sami sámegiella
lun   Lunda chiLunda
luo   Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) Dholuo
lus   Lushai
ltz lb Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch Lëtzebuergesch

M

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
mac/mkd mk Macedonian македонски јазик
mad   Madurese
mag   Magahi
mai   Maithili मैथिली
mak   Makasar
mlg mg Malagasy Malagasy fiteny
may/msa ms Malay bahasa Melayu; بهاس ملايو
mal ml Malayalam മലയാളം
mlt mt Maltese Malti
mnc   Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ ᠪᡝ
mdr   Mandar
man   Mandingo
mni   Manipuri মৈইতৈইলোন
mno   Manobo languages
glv gv Manx Gaelg; Manninagh
mao/mri mi Māori te reo Māori
mar mr Marathi मराठी
chm   Mari марий йылме
mah mh Marshallese Kajin M̧ajeļ
mwr   Marwari मारवाड़ी
mas   Masai ɔl Maa
myn   Mayan languages
men   Mende Mɛnde
mic   Mi'kmaq; Micmac Míkmaq, Mi'gmaq
min   Minangkabau Baso Minangkabau
mwl   Mirandese Lhéngua Mirandesa
moh   Mohawk Kanien’keha
mdf   Moksha мокшень кяль
mol mo Moldavian; Moldovan лимба молдовеняскэ
mkh   Mon-Khmer (Other)
lol   Mongo
mon mn Mongolian монгол хэл
mos   Mossi Mòoré
mun   Munda languages

N

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
nah   Nahuatl languages nāhuatl; nawatlahtolli
nau na Nauruan Ekakairũ Naoero
nav nv Navajo; Navaho Diné bizaad; Dinékʼehǰí
nde nd Ndebele, North isiNdebele
nbl nr Ndebele, South isiNdebele
ndo ng Ndonga Owambo
nap   Neapolitan napulitano
new   Nepal Bhasa; Newari Nepal Bhasa
nep ne Nepali नेपाली
nia   Nias
nic   Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
ssa   Nilo-Saharan (Other)
niu   Niuean ko e vagahau Niuē; faka-Niue
nqo   N'Ko
nog   Nogai ногай тили
non   Norse, Old norskr
nai   North American Indian (Other)
sme se Northern Sami sámi; sámegiella
nor no Norwegian Norsk
nob nb Norwegian Bokmål Norsk bokmål
nno nn Norwegian Nynorsk Norsk nynorsk
nub   Nubian languages
nym   Nyamwezi Kinyamwezi
nyn   Nyankole
nyo   Nyoro Runyoro
nzi   Nzima

O

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
oci oc Occitan (post 1500); Provençal Occitan
oji oj Ojibwa, Anishinaabe languages ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᒧᐏᐣ (Anishinaabemowin)
ori or Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ
orm om Oromo Afaan Oromoo
osa   Osage
oss os Ossetian; Ossetic ирон ӕвзаг
oto   Otomian languages

P

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

Q

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
qaa-qtz   Reserved for local use
que qu Quechua Runa Simi; Kichwa

R

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
roh rm Raeto-Romance; Romansh rumantsch grischun
raj   Rajasthani राजस्थानी
rap   Rapanui rapanui; pepito ote henua
rar   Rarotongan; Cook Islands Maori
roa   Romance (Other)
rum/ron ro Romanian română
rom   Romany rromani ćhib; Romani šib; Romanó
run rn Rundi kiRundi
rus ru Russian русский язык

S

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
sal   Salishan languages
sam   Samaritan Aramaic ארמית, ܐܪܡܝܐ
smi   Sami languages (Other)
smo sm Samoan gagana fa'a Samoa
sad   Sandawe
sag sg Sango yângâ tî sängö
san sa Sanskrit संस्कृतम्
sat   Santali संथाली
srd sc Sardinian sardu
sas   Sasak
sco   Scots Scots leid; Lallans
gla gd Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic Gàidhlig
sel   Selkup шӧльӄумыт әты
sem   Semitic (Other)
srp[2] sr Serbian српски језик
/ sh[3] Serbo-Croatian Српскохрватски / Srpskohrvatski
srr   Serer
shn   Shan
sna sn Shona chiShona
iii ii Sichuan Yi; Nuosu ꆇꉙ
scn   Sicilian Sicilianu
sid   Sidamo Sidámo 'Afó
sgn   Sign languages
bla   Siksika siksiká;  ᓱᖽᐧᖿ
snd sd Sindhi سنڌي، سندھی, सिन्धी
sin si Sinhalese; Sinhala සිංහල
sit   Sino-Tibetan (Other)
sio   Siouan languages
sms   Skolt Sami sääʼmǩiõll
den   Slave (Athapascan)
sla   Slavic (Other)
svk sk Slovak slovenčina
slv sl Slovenian slovenščina
sog   Sogdian
som so Somali Soomaaliga; af Soomaali
son   Songhai languages
snk   Soninke Soninkanxaane
wen   Sorbian languages
dsb   Sorbian, Lower dolnoserbski
hsb   Sorbian, Upper hornjoserbsce
nso   Sotho, Northern; Pedi; Sepedi Sesotho sa Leboa; Sepedi
sot st Sotho, Southern Sesotho
sai   South American Indian (Other)
alt   Southern Altai алтай тили
sma   Southern Sami saemien giele
spa es Spanish; Castilian español, castellano
srn   Sranan Tongo
suk   Sukuma
sux   Sumerian eme-ĝir
sun su Sundanese basa Sunda
sus   Susu
swa sw Swahili kiswahili
ssw ss Swati siSwati
swe sv Swedish Svenska
syr   Syriac ܣܘܪܝܝܐ

T

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
tgl tl Tagalog Tagalog
tah ty Tahitian te reo Tahiti; te reo Māʼohi
tai   Tai (Other)
tgk tg Tajik тоҷикӣ; تاجیکی
tmh   Tamashek Tamajeq, ɫ[ǂ…
tam ta Tamil தமிழ்
tat tt Tatar татарча; tatarça; تاتارچا
tel te Telugu తెలుగు
ter   Tereno
tet   Tetum, Lia-Tetun Tetun
tha th Thai ภาษาไทย
tib/bod bo Tibetan བོད་ཡིག
tig   Tigre Tigré; Khasa
tir ti Tigrinya ትግርኛ
tem   Timne
tiv   Tiv
tli   Tlingit Lingít
tpi   Tok Pisin Tok Pisin
tkl   Tokelau Tokelau
tog   Tonga (Nyasa) chiTonga
ton to Tongan; Tonga (Tonga Islands) faka-Tonga
tsi   Tsimshian
tso ts Tsonga Xitsonga
tsn tn Tswana Setswana
tum   Tumbuka chiTumbuka
tup   Tupi languages Nheengatu
tur tr Turkish Türkçe
ota   Turkish, Ottoman (1500–1928)
tuk tk Turkmen Түркмен
tvl   Tuvalu 'gana Tuvalu
tyv   Tuvinian тыва дыл
twi tw Twi

U

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
udm   Udmurt удмурт кыл
uga   Ugaritic
uig ug Uighur; Uyghur Uyƣurqə; Uyğurçe; ئۇيغۇرچ
ukr uk Ukrainian українська мова
umb   Umbundu úmbúndú
urd ur Urdu اردو
uzb uz Uzbek O'zbek; Ўзбек; أۇزبېك

V

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
vai   Vai
ven ve Venda Tshivenḓa
vie vi Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
vol vo Volapük Volapük
vot   Votic vaďďa tšeeli

W

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
wak   Wakashan languages
wal   Walamo
wln wa Walloon walon
war   Waray Winaray; Lineyte-Samarnon
was   Washo
wel/cym cy Welsh Cymraeg
wol wo Wolof Wolof

X

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
xho xh Xhosa isiXhosa

Y

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
sah   Yakut Саха тыла
yao   Yao Chiyao
yap   Yapese
yid yi Yiddish ייִדיש
yor yo Yoruba Yorùbá
ypk   Yupik languages

Z

Alpha-3 Alpha-2 Language name Native name
znd   Zande languages Pazande
zap   Zapotec
zza   Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki
zen   Zenaga Tuḍḍungiyya
zha za Zhuang; Chuang Saɯ cueŋƅ; Saw cuengh
zul zu Zulu isiZulu
zun   Zuni Shiwi
  1. ^  Serbo-Croatian was assigned an alpha-2 code sh, but it is now deprecated. It has no alpha-3 code in ISO 639-2. However, SIL International assigned an ISO 639-3 code hbs to Serbo-Croatian, considering it to be a macro-language.
  2. ^  Croatian language was assigned an ISO 639-2/B code scr, but it is now deprecated.
  3. ^  Serbian language was assigned an ISO 639-2/B code scc, but it is now deprecated.
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