Appendix G. Language Codes
The following table shows the two-letter ISO 639 language codes that are used to declare the language of a document in the lang and xml:lang attributes. It covers many of the world's major languages.
Country | ISO Code | Country | ISO Code |
|---|---|---|---|
Abkhazian | AB | Bhutani | DZ |
Afan (Oromo) | OM | Bihari | BH |
Afar | AA | Bislama | BI |
Afrikaans | AF | Breton | BR |
Albanian | SQ | Bulgarian | BG |
Amharic | AM | Burmese | MY |
Arabic | AR | Byelorussian | BE |
Armenian | HY | Cambodian | KM |
Assamese | AS | Catalan | CA |
Aymara | AY | Chinese | ZH |
Azerbaijani | AZ | Corsican | CO |
Bashkir | BA | Croatian | HR |
Basque | EU | Czech | CS |
Bengali; Bangla | BN | Danish | DA |
Dutch | NL | Japanese | JA |
English | EN | Javanese | JV |
Esperanto | EO | Kannada | KN |
Estonian | ET | Kashmiri | KS |
Faroese | FO | Kazakh | KK |
Fiji | FJ | Kinyarwanda | RW |
Finnish | FI | Kirghiz | KY |
French | FR | Korean | KO |
Frisian | FY | Kurdish | KU |
Galician | GL | Kurundi | RN |
Georgian | KA | Laothian | LO |
German | DE | Latin | LA |
Greek | EL | Latvian; Lettish | LV |
Greenlandic | KL | Lingala | LN |
Guarani | GN | Lithuanian | LT |
Gujarati | GU | Macedonian | MK |
Hausa | HA | Malagasy | MG |
Hebrew | HE | Malay | MS |
Hindi | HI | Malayalam | ML |
Hungarian | HU | Maltese | MT |
Icelandic | IS | Maori | MI |
Indonesian | ID | Marathi | MR |
Interlingua | IA | Moldavian | MO |
Interlingue | IE | Mongolian | MN |
Inuktitut | IU | Nauru | NA |
Inupiak | IK | Nepali | NE |
Irish | GA | Norwegian | NO |
Italian | IT | Occitan | OC |
Oriya | OR | Swedish | SV |
Pashto; Pushto | PS | Tagalog | TL |
Persian (Farsi) | FA | Tajik | TG |
Polish | PL | Tamil | TA |
Portuguese | PT | Tatar | TT |
Punjabi | PA | Telugu | TE |
Quechua | QU | Thai | TH |
Rhaeto-Romance | RM | Tibetan | BO |
Romanian | RO | Tigrinya | TI |
Russian | RU | Tonga | TO |
Samoan | SM | Tsonga | TS |
Sangho | SG | Turkish | TR |
Sanskrit | SA | Turkmen | TK |
Scots Gaelic | GD | Twi | TW |
Serbian | SR | Uigur | UG |
Serbo-Croatian | SH | Ukrainian | UK |
Sesotho | ST | Urdu | UR |
Setswana | TN | Uzbek | UZ |
Shona | SN | Vietnamese | VI |
Sindhi | SD | Volapuk | VO |
Singhalese | SI | Welsh | CY |
Siswati | SS | Wolof | WO |
Slovak | SK | Xhosa | XH |
Slovenian |
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