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