List of ISO 639 language codes

ISO 639 has three code lists. The following is a list of ISO 639-1 language codes, including the ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 codes where they exist. The data is sorted by 639-1 code.

639-1	639-2	639-3	Language name	Native name	comment
aa	aar	aar	Afar	Afaraf
ab	abk	abk	Abkhazian	Аҧсуа
ae	ave	ave	Avestan	avesta
af	afr	afr	Afrikaans	Afrikaans
ak	aka	aka + 2	Akan	Akan
am	amh	amh	Amharic	አማርኛ
an	arg	arg	Aragonese	Aragonés
ar	ara	ara + 30	Arabic	‫العربية	Standard Arabic is [arb]
as	asm	asm	Assamese	অসমীয়া
av	ava	ava	Avaric	авар мацӀ; магӀарул мацӀ
ay	aym	aym + 2	Aymara	aymar aru
az	aze	aze + 2	Azerbaijani	azərbaycan dili
ba	bak	bak	Bashkir	башҡорт теле
be	bel	bel	Belarusian	Беларуская
bg	bul	bul	Bulgarian	български език
bh	bih	--	Bihari	भोजपुरी	collective language code for Bhojpuri, Magahi, and Maithili
bi	bis	bis	Bislama	Bislama
bm	bam	bam	Bambara	bamanankan
bn	ben	ben	Bengali	বাংলা
bo	tib/bod	bod	Tibetan	བོད་ཡིག
br	bre	bre	Breton	brezhoneg
bs	bos	bos	Bosnian	bosanski jezik
ca	cat	cat	Catalan	Català
ce	che	che	Chechen	нохчийн мотт
ch	cha	cha	Chamorro	Chamoru
co	cos	cos	Corsican	corsu; lingua corsa
cr	cre	cre + 6	Cree	ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ
cs	cze/ces	ces	Czech	česky; čeština
cu	chu	chu	Church Slavic
cv	chv	chv	Chuvash	чӑваш чӗлхи
cy	wel/cym	cym	Welsh	Cymraeg
da	dan	dan	Danish	dansk
de	ger/deu	deu	German	Deutsch
dv	div	div	Divehi	‫ދިވެހި
dz	dzo	dzo	Dzongkha	རྫོང་ཁ
ee	ewe	ewe	Ewe	Ɛʋɛgbɛ
el	gre/ell	ell	Greek	Ελληνικά
en	eng	eng	English	English
eo	epo	epo	Esperanto	Esperanto
es	spa	spa	Spanish	español; castellano
et	est	est	Estonian	Eesti keel
eu	baq/eus	eus	Basque	euskara
fa	per/fas	fas + 2	Persian	‫فارسی
ff	ful	ful + 9	Fulah	Fulfulde
fi	fin	fin	Finnish	suomen kieli
fj	fij	fij	Fijian	vosa Vakaviti
fo	fao	fao	Faroese	Føroyskt
fr	fre/fra	fra	French	français; langue française
fy	fry	fry + 3	Western Frisian	Frysk
ga	gle	gle	Irish	Gaeilge
gd	gla	gla	Scottish Gaelic	Gàidhlig
gl	glg	glg	Galician	Galego
gn	grn	grn + 5	Guaraní	Avañe'ẽ
gu	guj	guj	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી
gv	glv	glv	Manx	Ghaelg
ha	hau	hau	Hausa	‫هَوُسَ
he	heb	heb	Hebrew	‫עברית
hi	hin	hin	Hindi	हिन्दी; हिंदी
ho	hmo	hmo	Hiri Motu	Hiri Motu
hr	scr/hrv	hrv	Croatian	Hrvatski
ht	hat	hat	Haitian	Kreyòl ayisyen
hu	hun	hun	Hungarian	Magyar
hy	arm/hye	hye	Armenian	Հայերեն
hz	her	her	Herero	Otjiherero
ia	ina	ina	Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)	interlingua
id	ind	ind	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia
ie	ile	ile	Interlingue	Interlingue
ig	ibo	ibo	Igbo	Igbo
ii	iii	iii	Sichuan Yi	ꆇꉙ
ik	ipk	ipk + 2	Inupiaq	Iñupiaq; Iñupiatun
io	ido	ido	Ido	Ido
is	ice/isl	isl	Icelandic	Íslenska
it	ita	ita	Italian	Italiano
iu	iku	iku + 2	Inuktitut	ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
ja	jpn	jpn	Japanese	日本語 (にほんご)
jv	jav	jav	Javanese	basa Jawa
ka	geo/kat	kat	Georgian	ქართული
kg	kon	kon + 3	Kongo	KiKongo
ki	kik	kik	Kikuyu	Gĩkũyũ
kj	kua	kua	Kuanyama	Kuanyama
kk	kaz	kaz	Kazakh	Қазақ тілі
kl	kal	kal	Kalaallisut	kalaallisut; kalaallit oqaasii
km	khm	khm	Khmer	ភាសាខ្មែរ
kn	kan	kan	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ
ko	kor	kor	Korean	한국어 (韓國語); 조선말 (朝鮮語)
kr	kau	kau + 3	Kanuri	Kanuri
ks	kas	kas	Kashmiri	कश्मीरी; Template:Rtl-lang
ku	kur	kur + 3	Kurdish	Kurdî; Template:Rtl-lang
kv	kom	kom + 2	Komi	коми кыв
kw	cor	cor	Cornish	Kernewek
ky	kir	kir	Kirghiz	кыргыз тили
la	lat	lat	Latin	latine; lingua latina
lb	ltz	ltz	Luxembourgish	Lëtzebuergesch
lg	lug	lug	Ganda	Luganda
li	lim	lim	Limburgish	Limburgs
ln	lin	lin	Lingala	Lingála
lo	lao	lao	Lao	ພາສາລາວ
lt	lit	lit	Lithuanian	lietuvių kalba
lu	lub	lub	Luba-Katanga
lv	lav	lav	Latvian	latviešu valoda
mg	mlg	mlg + 10	Malagasy	Malagasy fiteny
mh	mah	mah	Marshallese	Kajin M̧ajeļ
mi	mao/mri	mri	Māori	te reo Māori
mk /sl ^	mac/mkd	mkd	Macedonian	македонски јазик	^ ""Slav-Macedonian" by Eurominority". The European Languages. `{{cite web}}`: Unknown parameter `\|accessmonthday=` ignored (help); Unknown parameter `\|accessyear=` ignored (`\|access-date=` suggested) (help)
ml	mal	mal	Malayalam	മലയാളം
mn	mon	mon + 2	Mongolian	Монгол
mo	mol	mol	Moldavian	лимба молдовеняскэ
mr	mar	mar	Marathi	मराठी
ms	may/msa	msa + 13	Malay	bahasa Melayu; Template:Rtl-lang	Malay (specific) is [mly]
mt	mlt	mlt	Maltese	Malti
my	bur/mya	mya	Burmese	ဗမာစာ
na	nau	nau	Nauru	Ekakairũ Naoero
nb	nob	nob	Norwegian Bokmål	Norsk bokmål
nd	nde	nde	North Ndebele	isiNdebele
ne	nep	nep	Nepali	नेपाली
ng	ndo	ndo	Ndonga	Owambo
nl	dut/nld	nld	Dutch	Nederlands
nn	nno	nno	Norwegian Nynorsk	Norsk nynorsk
no	nor	nor + 2	Norwegian	Norsk
nr	nbl	nbl	South Ndebele	Ndébélé
nv	nav	nav	Navajo	Diné bizaad; Dinékʼehǰí
ny	nya	nya	Chichewa	chiCheŵa; chinyanja
oc	oci	oci + 5	Occitan	Occitan
oj	oji	oji + 7	Ojibwa	ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ
om	orm	orm + 4	Oromo	Afaan Oromoo
or	ori	ori	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ
os	oss	oss	Ossetian	Ирон æвзаг
pa	pan	pan	Panjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ; Template:Rtl-lang
pi	pli	pli	Pāli	पािऴ
pl	pol	pol	Polish	polski
ps	pus	pus + 3	Pashto	‫پښتو
pt	por	por	Portuguese	Português
qu	que	que + 44	Quechua	Runa Simi; Kichwa
rm	roh	roh	Raeto-Romance	rumantsch grischun
rn	run	run	Kirundi	kiRundi
ro	rum/ron	ron	Romanian	română
ru	rus	rus	Russian	русский язык
rw	kin	kin	Kinyarwanda	Kinyarwanda
sa	san	san	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्
sc	srd	srd + 4	Sardinian	sardu
sd	snd	snd	Sindhi	सिन्धी; Template:Rtl-lang
se	sme	sme	Northern Sami	Davvisámegiella
sg	sag	sag	Sango	yângâ tî sängö
sh	--	hbs + 3	Serbo-Croatian	Српскохрватски
si	sin	sin	Sinhalese	සිංහල
sk	slo/slk	slk	Slovak	slovenčina
sl	slv	slv	Slovenian	slovenščina
sm	smo	smo	Samoan	gagana fa'a Samoa
sn	sna	sna	Shona	chiShona
so	som	som	Somali	Soomaaliga; af Soomaali
sq	alb/sqi	sqi + 4	Albanian	Shqip
sr	scc/srp	srp	Serbian	српски језик
ss	ssw	ssw	Swati	SiSwati
st	sot	sot	Sotho	seSotho
su	sun	sun	Sundanese	Basa Sunda
sv	swe	swe	Swedish	Svenska
sw	swa	swa + 2	Swahili	Kiswahili
ta	tam	tam	Tamil	தமிழ்
te	tel	tel	Telugu	తెలుగు
tg	tgk	tgk	Tajik	тоҷикӣ; toğikī; Template:Rtl-lang
th	tha	tha	Thai	ไทย
ti	tir	tir	Tigrinya	ትግርኛ
tk	tuk	tuk	Turkmen	Türkmen; Түркмен
tl	tgl	tgl	Tagalog	Tagalog
tn	tsn	tsn	Tswana	seTswana
to	ton	ton	Tonga	faka Tonga
tr	tur	tur	Turkish	Türkçe
ts	tso	tso	Tsonga	xiTsonga
tt	tat	tat	Tatar	татарча; tatarça; Template:Rtl-lang
tw	twi	twi	Twi	Twi
ty	tah	tah	Tahitian	Reo Mā`ohi
ug	uig	uig	Uighur	Uyƣurqə; Template:Rtl-lang
uk	ukr	ukr	Ukrainian	українська мова
ur	urd	urd	Urdu	‫اردو
uz	uzb	uzb + 2	Uzbek	O'zbek; Ўзбек; Template:Rtl-lang
ve	ven	ven	Venda	tshiVenḓa
vi	vie	vie	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt
vo	vol	vol	Volapük	Volapük
wa	wln	wln	Walloon	Walon
wo	wol	wol	Wolof	Wollof
xh	xho	xho	Xhosa	isiXhosa
yi	yid	yid + 2	Yiddish	‫ייִדיש
yo	yor	yor	Yoruba	Yorùbá
za	zha	zha + 2	Zhuang	Saɯ cueŋƅ; Saw cuengh
zh	chi/zho	zho + 13	Chinese	中文, 汉语, 漢語
zu	zul	zul	Zulu	isiZulu

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