ISO CD 639-2 Language Codes


This is a extract of a paper called ISO CD 639/2 Draft Proposal, titled "Code for the representation of names of languages, alpha-3 code" dated 12/16/91.

  Table 3
  Alpha-3 symbols arranged alphabetically by symbol

  Symbol  Language name   

  aar     Afar
  abk     Abkhazian
  ace     Achinese
  ach     Acoli
  ada     Adangme
  afa     Afro-Asiatic (Other)
  afh     Afrihili
  afr     Africaans
  ajm     Aljamia
  aka     Akan
  akk     Akkadian
  alb/sqi Albanian
  ale     Aleut
  alg     Algonquian languages
  amh     Amharic
  ang     English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
  apa     Apache languages
  ara     Arabic
  arc     Aramaic
  arm/hye Armenian
  arn     Araucanian
  arp     Arapaho
  art     Artificial (Other)
  arw     Arawak
  asm     Assamese
  ath     Athapascan languages
  ava     Avaric
  ave     Avestan
  awa     Awandhi
  aym     Aymara
  aze     Azerbaijani
  bad     Banda
  bai     Bamileke languages
  bak     Bashkir
  bal     Baluchi
  bam     Bambara
  ban     Balinese
  baq/eus Basque
  bas     Basa
  bat     Baltic (Other)
  bej     Beja
  bel     Byelorussian
  bem     Bemba
  ben     Bengali
  ber     Berber languages
  bho     Bhojpuri
  bih     Bihari
  bik     Bikol
  bin     Bini
  bis     Bislama
  bla     Siksika
  bod/tib Tibetan
  bra     Braj
  bre     Breton
  bug     Buginese
  bul     Bulgarian
  bur/mya Burmese
  cad     Caddo
  cai     Central American Indian (Other)
  car     Carib
  cat     Catalan
  cau     Caucasian (Other)
  ceb     Cebuano
  cel     Celtic (Other)
  ces/cze Czeck
  cha     Chamorro
  chb     Chibcha
  che     Chechen
  chg     Chagatai
  chi/zho Chinese
  chn     Chinook jargon
  cho     Choctaw
  chr     Cherokee
  chu     Church Slavic
  chv     Chuvash
  chy     Cheyenne
  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
  crp     Creoles and pidgins (Other)
  cus     Cushitic (Other)
  cym/wel Welsh
  cze/ces Czech
  dak     Dakota
  dan     Danish
  del     Delaware
  deu/ger German
  din     Dinka
  doi     Dogri
  dra     Dravidian (Other)
  dua     Duala
  dum     Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
  dut/nld Dutch
  dyu     Dyula
  dzo     Dzongkha
  efi     Efik
  egy     Egyptian (Ancient)
  eka     Ekajuk
  ell/gre Greek, Modern (1453- )
  elx     Elamite
  eng     English
  enm     English, Middle (1100-1500)
  epo     Esperanto
  esk     Eskimo (Other)
  esl/spa Spanish
  est     Estonian
  eth     Ethiopic
  eus/baq Basque
  ewe     Ewe
  ewo     Ewondo
  fan     Fang
  fao     Faroese
  fas/per Persian
  fat     Fanti
  fij     Fijian
  fin     Finnish
  fiu     Finno-Ugrian (Other)
  fon     Fon
  fra/fre French
  fre/fra French
  frm     French, Middel (ca. 1400-1600)
  fro     French, Old (ca. 842-1400)
  fry     Friesian
  ful     Fulah
  gaa     Ga
  gae/gdh Gaelic (Scots)
  gai/iri Irish
  gay     Gayo
  gdh/gae Gaelic (Scots)
  gem     Germanic (Other)
  geo/kat Georgian
  ger/deu German
  gil     Gilbertese
  glg     Gallegan
  gmh     German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
  goh     German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)
  gon     Gondi
  got     Gothic
  grb     Grebo
  grc     Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
  gre/ell Greek, Modern (1453- )
  grn     Guarani
  guj     Gujarati
  hai     Haida
  hau     Hausa
  haw     Hawaiian
  heb     Hebrew
  her     Herero
  hil     Hiligaynon
  him     Himachali
  hin     Hindi
  hmo     Hiri Motu
  hun     Hungarian
  hup     Hupa
  hye/arm Armenian
  iba     Iban
  ibo     Igbo
  ice/isl Icelandic
  ijo     Ijo
  iku     Inuktitut
  ile     Interlingue
  ilo     Iloko
  ina     Interlingua (International Auxilary Language Association)
  inc     Indic (Other)
  ind     Indonesian
  ine     Indo-European (Other)
  ipk     Inupiak
  ira     Iranian (Other)
  iri/gai Irish
  iro     Iroquoian languages
  isl/ice Icelandic
  ita     Italian
  jav/jaw Javanese
  jaw/jav Javanese
  jpn     Japanese
  jpr     Judeo-Persian
  jrb     Judeo-Arabic
  kaa     Kara-Kalpak
  kab     Kabyle
  kac     Kachin
  kal     Greenlandic
  kam     Kamba
  kan     Kannada
  kar     Karen
  kas     Kashmiri
  kat/geo Georgian
  kau     Kanuri
  kaw     Kawi
  kaz     Kazakh
  kha     Khasi
  khi     Khoisan (Other)
  khm     Khmer
  kho     Khotanese
  kik     Kikuyu
  kin     Kinyarwanda
  kir     Kirghiz
  kok     Konkani
  kon     Kongo
  kor     Korean
  kpe     Kpelle
  kro     Kru
  kru     Kurukh
  kua     Kuanyama
  kur     Kurdish
  kus     Kusaie
  kut     Kutenai
  lad     Ladino
  lah     Lahnda
  lam     Lamba
  lao     Lao
  lap     Lapp languages
  lat     Latin
  lav     Latvian
  lin     Lingala
  lit     Lithuanian
  lol     Mongo
  loz     Lozi
  lub     Luba-Katanga
  lug     Ganda
  lui     Luiseno
  lun     Lunda
  luo     Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
  mac/mke Macedonian
  mad     Madurese
  mag     Magahi
  mah     Marshall
  mai     Maithili
  mak     Makasar
  mal     Malayalam
  man     Mandingo
  mao/mri Maori
  map     Austronesian (Other)
  mar     Marathi
  mas     Masai
  max     Manx
  may/msa Malay
  men     Mende
  mic     Micmac
  min     Minangkabau
  mis     Miscellaneous (Other)
  mke/mac Macedonian
  mkh     Mon-Khmer (Other)
  mlg     Malagasy
  mlt     Maltese
  mni     Manipuri
  mno     Manobo languages
  moh     Mohawk
  mol     Moldavian
  mon     Mongolian
  mos     Mossi
  mri/mao Maori
  msa/may Malay
  mul     Multiple languages
  mun     Munda (Other)
  mus     Creek
  mwr     Marwari
  mya/bur Burmese
  myn     Mayan languages
  nah     Aztec
  nai     North American Indian (Other)
  nau     Nauru
  nav     Navajo
  nde     Ndebele (Zimbabwe)
  nld/dut Dutch
  ndo     Ndonga
  nep     Nepali
  new     Newari
  nic     Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
  niu     Niuean
  non     Old Norse
  nor     Norwegian
  nso     Northern Sohto
  nub     Nubian languages
  nya     Nyanja
  nym     Nyamwezi
  nyn     Nyankole
  nyo     Nyoro
  nzi     Nzima
  oci     Langue d'oc (post 1500)
  oji     Ojibwa
  ori     Oriya
  orm     Oromo
  osa     Osage
  oss     Ossetic
  ota     Turkish, Ottoman
  oto     Otomian languages
  paa     Papuan-Australian (Other)
  pag     Pangasinan
  pal     Pahlavi
  pam     Pampanga
  pan     Panjabi
  pap     Papiamento
  pau     Palauan
  peo     Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)
  per/fas Persian
  pli     Pali
  pol     Polish
  pon     Ponape
  por     Portuguese
  pra     Prakrit languages
  pro     Provencal, Old (to 1500)
  pus     Pushto
  que     Quechua
  raj     Rajasthani
  rar     Rarotongan
  roa     Romance (Other)
  roh     Raeto-Romance
  rom     Romany
  ron/rum Romanian
  rum/ron Romanian
  run     Rundi
  rus     Russian
  sad     Sandawe
  sag     Sango
  sai     South American Indian (Other)
  sal     Salishan languages
  sam     Samaritan Aramaic
  san     Sanskrit
  sco     Scots
  scr     Serbo-Croatian
  sel     Selkup
  sem     Semitic (Other)
  shn     Shan
  sid     Sidamo
  sin     Sinhalese
  sio     Siouan languages
  sit     Sino-Tibetan (Other)
  sla     Slavic (Other)
  slk/slo Slovak
  slo/slk Slovak
  slv     Slovenian
  smo     Samoan
  sna     Shona
  snd     Sindhi
  sog     Sogdian
  som     Somali
  son     Songhai
  sot     Sotho
  spa/esl Spanish
  sqi/alb Albanian
  srr     Serer
  ssa     Nilo-Saharan (Other)
  ssw     Swazi
  suk     Sukuma
  sun     Sundanese
  sus     Susu
  sux     Sumerian
  sve/swe Swedish
  swa     Swahili
  swe/sve Swedish
  syr     Syriac
  tah     Tahitian
  tam     Tamil
  tat     Tatar
  tel     Telugu
  tem     Timne
  ter     Tereno
  tgk     Tajik
  tgl     Tagalog
  tha     Thai
  tib/bod Tibetan
  tig     Tigre
  tir     Tigrinya
  tiv     Tivi
  tli     Tlingit
  tog     Tonga (Nyasa)
  ton     Tonga (Tonga Islands)
  tru     Truk
  tsi     Tsimshian
  tsn     Tswana
  tso     Tsonga
  tuk     Turkmen
  tum     Tumbuka
  tur     Turkish
  tut     Altaic (Other)
  twi     Twi
  uga     Ugaritic
  uig     Uighur
  ukr     Ukrainian
  umb     Umbundu
  und     Undetermined
  urd     Urdu
  uzb     Uzbek
  vai     Vai
  ven     Venda
  vie     Vietnamese
  vol     Volapuk
  vot     Votic
  wak     Wakashan languages
  wal     Walamo
  war     Waray
  was     Washo
  wel/cym Welsh
  wen     Sorbian languages
  wol     Wolof
  xho     Xhosa
  yao     Yao
  yap     Yap
  yid     Yiddish
  yor     Yoruba
  zap     Zapotec
  zen     Zenaga
  zha     Zhuang
  zho/chi Chinese
  zul     Zulu
  zun     Zuni