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ISO 639 Language Codes

Table G-2. ISO 639 and 639-2 language codes

Language	ISO 639	ISO 639-2
Abkhazian	ab	abk
Achinese		ace
Acoli		ach
Adangme		ada
Afar	aa	aar
Afrihili		afh
Afrikaans	af	afr
Afro-Asiatic (Other)		afa
Akan		aka
Akkadian		akk
Albanian	sq	alb/sqi
Aleut		ale
Algonquian languages		alg
Altaic (Other)		tut
Amharic	am	amh
Apache languages		apa
Arabic	ar	ara
Aramaic		arc
Arapaho		arp
Araucanian		arn
Arawak		arw
Armenian	hy	arm/hye
Artificial (Other)		art
Assamese	as	asm
Athapascan languages		ath
Austronesian (Other)		map
Avaric		ava
Avestan		ave
Awadhi		awa
Aymara	ay	aym
Azerbaijani	az	aze
Aztec		nah
Balinese		ban
Baltic (Other)		bat
Baluchi		bal
Bambara		bam
Bamileke languages		bai
Banda		bad
Bantu (Other)		bnt
Basa		bas
Bashkir	ba	bak
Basque	eu	baq/eus
Beja		bej
Bemba		bem
Bengali	bn	ben
Berber (Other)		ber
Bhojpuri		bho
Bihari	bh	bih
Bikol		bik
Bini		bin
Bislama	bi	bis
Braj		bra
Breton	be	bre
Buginese		bug
Bulgarian	bg	bul
Buriat		bua
Burmese	my	bur/mya
Byelorussian	be	bel
Caddo		cad
Carib		car
Catalan	ca	cat
Caucasian (Other)		cau
Cebuano		ceb
Celtic (Other)		cel
Central American Indian (Other)		cai
Chagatai		chg
Chamorro		cha
Chechen		che
Cherokee		chr
Cheyenne		chy
Chibcha		chb
Chinese	zh	chi/zho
Chinook jargon		chn
Choctaw		cho
Church Slavic		chu
Chuvash		chv
Coptic		cop
Cornish		cor