ISO 639 language codes
ISO 639 language codes are used in xml:lang attributes and public identifiers. The following table shows some of the most common. The full list can be found in RFC 1766 (see ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt):
| Code | Language | Code | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| aa | Afar | mk | Macedonian |
| ab | Abkhazian | ml | Malayalam |
| af | Afrikaans | mn | Mongolian |
| am | Amharic | mo | Moldavian |
| ar | Arabic | mr | Marathi |
| as | Assamese | ms | Malay |
| ay | Aymara | mt | Maltese |
| az | Azerbaijani | my | Burmese |
| ba | Bashkir | na | Nauru |
| be | Byelorussian | ne | Nepali |
| bg | Bulgarian | nl | Dutch |
| bh | Bihari | no | Norwegian |
| bi | Bislama | oc | Occitan |
| bn | Bengali | om | Oromo |
| bo | Tibetan | or | Oriya |
| br | Breton | pa | Punjabi |
| ca | Catalan | pl | Polish |
| co | Corsican | ps | Pashto |
| cs | Czech | pt | Portuguese |
| cy | Welsh | qu | Quechua |
| ch | Chinese | rm | Rhaeto-Romance |
| da | Danish ... |
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