ISO language codes are standardized two-letter and three-letter codes assigned to languages by the International Organization for Standardiz...
ISO language codes are standardized two-letter and three-letter codes assigned to languages by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
They aim to provide a unique and unambiguous identifier for each language, facilitating communication and data exchange across different systems and contexts.
There are two main sets of codes: ISO 639-1 (two-letter) and ISO 639-2/3 (three-letter). Most commonly used languages have both codes.
The list of codes is regularly updated and maintained by ISO, with new languages or dialects added as necessary.
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List of ISO language codes
This table lists all of two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage
|
ISO Language Code |
Language Name |
|
aa |
Afar |
|
ab |
Abkhazian |
|
af |
Afrikaans |
|
agq |
Aghem |
|
ak |
Akan |
|
am |
Amharic |
|
ar |
Arabic |
|
as |
Assamese |
|
av |
Avaric |
|
ay |
Aymara |
|
az |
Azerbaijani |
|
ba |
Bashkir |
|
be |
Belarusian |
|
bg |
Bulgarian |
|
bh |
Bihari languages |
|
bi |
Bislama |
|
bm |
Bambara |
|
bn |
Bengali |
|
bo |
Tibetan |
|
br |
Breton |
|
bs |
Bosnian |
|
ca |
Catalan |
|
ce |
Chechen |
|
co |
Corsican |
|
cs |
Czech |
|
cu |
Church Slavonic |
|
cy |
Welsh |
|
da |
Danish |
|
de |
German |
|
dv |
Dhivehi |
|
dz |
Dzongkha |
|
ee |
Ewe |
|
el |
Greek |
|
en |
English |
|
eo |
Esperanto |
|
es |
Spanish |
|
et |
Estonian |
|
eu |
Basque |
|
fa |
Persian |
|
fi |
Finnish |
|
fj |
Fijian |
|
fo |
Faroese |
|
fr |
French |
|
fy |
West Frisian |
|
ga |
Irish |
|
gd |
Scottish Gaelic |
|
gl |
Galician |
|
gn |
Guarani |
|
gu |
Gujarati |
|
gv |
Manx |
|
ha |
Hausa |
|
he |
Hebrew |
|
hi |
Hindi |
|
hr |
Croatian |
|
ht |
Haitian |
|
hu |
Hungarian |
|
hy |
Armenian |
|
ia |
Interlingua |
|
id |
Indonesian |
|
ig |
Igbo |
|
ii |
Sichuan Yi |
|
ik |
Inuktitut |
|
is |
Icelandic |
|
it |
Italian |
|
ja |
Japanese |
|
jv |
Javanese |
|
ka |
Georgian |
|
kg |
Kongo |
|
ki |
Kikuyu |
|
kk |
Kazakh |
|
kl |
Kalaallisut |
|
km |
Khmer |
|
kn |
Kannada |
|
ko |
Korean |
|
ks |
Kashmiri |
|
ku |
Kurdish |
|
ky |
Kyrgyz |
|
la |
Latin |
|
lb |
Luxembourgish |
|
lg |
Ganda |
|
ln |
Lingala |
|
lo |
Lao |
|
lt |
Lithuanian |
|
lu |
Luba-Katanga |
|
lv |
Latvian |
|
mg |
Malagasy |
|
mh |
Marshallese |
|
mi |
Maori |
|
mk |
Macedonian |
|
ml |
Malayalam |
|
mn |
Mongolian |
|
mr |
Marathi |
|
ms |
Malay |
|
mt |
Maltese |
|
my |
Burmese |
|
na |
Nauru |
|
nb |
Bokmål Norwegian |
|
nd |
North Ndebele |
|
ne |
Nepali |
|
ng |
Ndonga |
|
nl |
Dutch |
|
no |
Norwegian |
|
nr |
South Ndebele |
|
nv |
Navajo |
|
ny |
Nyanja |
|
oc |
Occitan |
|
om |
Oromo |
|
or |
Oriya |
|
os |
Ossetian |
|
pa |
Punjabi |
|
pl |
Polish |
|
pt |
Portuguese |
|
qu |
Quechua |
|
rm |
Romansh |
|
rn |
Rundi |
|
ro |
Romanian |
|
ru |
Russian |
|
rw |
Kinyarwanda |
|
sa |
Sanskrit |
|
sd |
Sindhi |
|
sg |
Sango |
|
si |
Sinhala |
|
sk |
Slovak |
|
sl |
Slovenian |
|
sm |
Samoan |
|
sn |
Shona |
|
so |
Somali |
|
sq |
Albanian |
|
sr |
Serbian |
|
ss |
Swati |
|
st |
Southern Sotho |
|
su |
Sundanese |
|
sv |
Swedish |
|
sw |
Swahili |
|
ta |
Tamil |
|
te |
Telugu |
|
tg |
Tajik |
|
th |
Thai |
|
ti |
Tigrinya |
|
tk |
Turkmen |
|
tl |
Tagalog |
|
tn |
Tswana |
|
to |
Tongan |
|
tr |
Turkish |
|
tt |
Tatar |
|
tw |
Twi |
|
ty |
Tahitian |
|
ug |
Uyghur |
