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639-2 639-3 639-1 Language name(s) from ISO 639-2 Scope Type Other name(s) and notes
aar aar aa Afar Individual Living
abk abk ab Abkhazian Individual Living Abkhaz
ace ace Achinese Individual Living Acehnese
ach ach Acoli Individual Living Acholi
ada ada Adangme Individual Living Dangme
ady ady Adyghe Individual Living West Circassian; Adygei
afa Afro-Asiatic languages Collective
afh afh Afrihili Individual Constructed
afr afr af Afrikaans Individual Living
ain ain Ainu Individual Living
aka aka ak Akan Macrolanguage Living
akk akk Akkadian Individual Ancient
ale ale Aleut Individual Living
alg Algonquian languages Collective
alt alt Southern Altai Individual Living
amh amh am Amharic Individual Living
ang ang Old English Individual Historical (ca.450–1100)
anp anp Angika Individual Living
apa Apache languages Collective Southern Athabaskan languages
ara ara ar Arabic Macrolanguage Living
arc arc Official Aramaic Individual Ancient Imperial Aramaic; (700–300 BCE)
arg arg an Aragonese Individual Living
arn arn Mapudungun Individual Living Mapuche
arp arp Arapaho Individual Living
art Artificial languages Collective
arw arw Arawak Individual Living Lokono
asm asm as Assamese Individual Living
ast ast Asturian Individual Living Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese; (use seems to depend on politics)
ath Athapascan languages Collective Athabaskan languages
aus Australian languages Collective
ava ava av Avaric Individual Living Avar
ave ave ae Avestan Individual Ancient
awa awa Awadhi Individual Living
aym aym ay Aymara Macrolanguage Living
aze aze az Azerbaijani Macrolanguage Living
bad Banda languages Collective
bai Bamileke languages Collective
bak bak ba Bashkir Individual Living
bal bal Baluchi Macrolanguage Living Balochi
bam bam bm Bambara Individual Living
ban ban Balinese Individual Living
bas bas Basa Individual Living Basaa
bat Baltic languages Collective
bej bej Beja; Bedawiyet Individual Living
bel bel be Belarusian Individual Living
bem bem Bemba Individual Living
ben ben bn Bengali Individual Living
ber Berber languages Collective Amazigh languages
bho bho Bhojpuri Individual Living
bih Bihari languages Collective
bik bik Bikol Macrolanguage Living
bin bin Bini; Edo Individual Living
bis bis bi Bislama Individual Living
bla bla Siksika Individual Living Blackfoot
bnt Bantu languages Collective
bod, tib bod bo Tibetan Individual Living
bos bos bs Bosnian Individual Living
bra bra Braj Individual Living Braj Bhāshā
bre bre br Breton Individual Living
btk Batak languages Collective
bua bua Buriat Macrolanguage Living Buryat
bug bug Buginese Individual Living
bul bul bg Bulgarian Individual Living
byn byn Blin Individual Living Bilen; Bilin
cad cad Caddo Individual Living
cai Central American Indian languages Collective
car car Galibi Carib Individual Living Carib
cat cat ca Catalan Individual Living Valencian
cau Caucasian languages Collective
ceb ceb Cebuano Individual Living
cel Celtic languages Collective
ces / cze* ces cs Czech Individual Living
cha cha ch Chamorro Individual Living
chb chb Chibcha Individual Extinct
che che ce Chechen Individual Living
chg chg Chagatai Individual Extinct
chk chk Chuukese Individual Living
chm chm Mari Macrolanguage Living
chn chn Chinook jargon Individual Living
cho cho Choctaw Individual Living
chp chp Chipewyan Individual Living Dene Suline; Denesulin
chr chr Cherokee Individual Living
chu chu cu Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic Individual Ancient
chv chv cv Chuvash Individual Living
chy chy Cheyenne Individual Living
cmc Chamic languages Collective
cnr cnr Montenegrin Individual Living
cop cop Coptic Individual Extinct
cor cor kw Cornish Individual Living
cos cos co Corsican Individual Living
cpe Creoles and pidgins English based Collective
cpf Creoles and pidgins French-based Collective
cpp Creoles and pidgins Portuguese-based Collective
cre cre cr Cree Macrolanguage Living
crh crh Crimean Tatar Individual Living Crimean Turkish
crp Creoles and pidgins Collective
csb csb Kashubian Individual Living Cassubian
cus Cushitic languages Collective
cym / wel* cym cy Welsh Individual Living
dak dak Dakota Individual Living
dan dan da Danish Individual Living
dar dar Dargwa Individual Living
day Land Dayak languages Collective
del del Delaware Macrolanguage Living
den den Slavey Macrolanguage Living Slavé
deu / ger* deu de German Individual Living
dgr dgr Dogrib Individual Living
din din Dinka Macrolanguage Living
div div dv Divehi Individual Living Dhivehi; Maldivian
doi doi Dogri Macrolanguage Living
dra Dravidian languages Collective
dsb dsb Lower Sorbian Individual Living
dua dua Duala Individual Living
dum dum Middle Dutch Individual Historical (ca. 1050–1350)
dyu dyu Dyula Individual Living Jula
dzo dzo dz Dzongkha Individual Living
efi efi Efik Individual Living
egy egy Ancient Egyptian Individual Ancient
eka eka Ekajuk Individual Living Kajuk
ell / gre* ell el Greek Individual Living Modern Greek; (1453–)
elx elx Elamite Individual Ancient
eng eng en English Individual Living
enm enm Middle English Individual Historical (1100–1500)
epo epo eo Esperanto Individual Constructed
est est et Estonian Macrolanguage Living
eus / baq* eus eu Basque Individual Living
ewe ewe ee Ewe Individual Living
ewo ewo Ewondo Individual Living Kolo
fan fan Fang Individual Living
fao fao fo Faroese Individual Living
fas / per* fas fa Persian Macrolanguage Living Farsi
fat fat Fanti Individual Living Fante
fij fij fj Fijian Individual Living
fil fil Filipino Individual Living Pilipino
fin fin fi Finnish Individual Living
fiu Finno-Ugrian languages Collective Finno-Ugric languages
fon fon Fon Individual Living
fra / fre* fra fr French Individual Living
frm frm Middle French, Middle Individual Historical (ca. 1400–1600)
fro fro Old French Individual Historical (842–ca. 1400)
frr frr Northern Frisian Individual Living North Frisian
frs frs East Frisian Low Saxon Individual Living East Frisian Low Saxon
fry fry fy Western Frisian Individual Living West Frisian
ful ful ff Fulah Macrolanguage Living Fula
fur fur Friulian Individual Living
gaa gaa Ga Individual Living
gay gay Gayo Individual Living
gba gba Gbaya Macrolanguage Living
gem Germanic languages Collective
gez gez Geez Individual Ancient Ge'ez
gil gil Gilbertese Individual Living
gla gla gd Gaelic Individual Living Scottish Gaelic
gle gle ga Irish Individual Living
glg glg gl Galician Individual Living
glv glv gv Manx Individual Living
gmh gmh German, Middle High Individual Historical (ca. 1050–1500)
goh goh Old High German Individual Historical (ca. 750–1050)
gon gon Gondi Macrolanguage Living
gor gor Gorontalo Individual Living
got got Gothic Individual Ancient
grb grb Grebo Macrolanguage Living
grc grc Ancient Greek Individual Historical (to 1453)
grn grn gn Guarani Macrolanguage Living
gsw gsw Swiss German Individual Living Alemannic
guj guj gu Gujarati Individual Living
gwi gwi Gwich'in Individual Living
hai hai Haida Macrolanguage Living
hat hat ht Haitian Individual Living Haitian Creole
hau hau ha Hausa Individual Living
haw haw Hawaiian Individual Living
heb heb he Hebrew Individual Living
her her hz Herero Individual Living
hil hil Hiligaynon Individual Living
him Himachali and Pahari languages Collective
hin hin hi Hindi Individual Living
hit hit Hittite Individual Ancient
hmn hmn Hmong Macrolanguage Living Mong
hmo hmo ho Hiri Motu Individual Living
hrv hrv hr Croatian Individual Living
hsb hsb Upper Sorbian Individual Living
hun hun hu Hungarian Individual Living
hup hup Hupa Individual Living
hye / arm* hye hy Armenian Individual Living
iba iba Iban Individual Living
ibo ibo ig Igbo Individual Living
ido ido io Ido Individual Constructed
iii iii ii Sichuan Yi Individual Living Nuosu
ijo Ijo languages Collective Ijaw languages
iku iku iu Inuktitut Macrolanguage Living
ile ile ie Interlingue Individual Constructed
ilo ilo Iloko Individual Living Ilocano
ina ina ia Interlingua Individual Constructed
inc Indo-Aryan languages Collective Indic languages
ind ind id Indonesian Individual Living
ine Indo-European languages Collective
inh inh Ingush Individual Living
ipk ipk ik Inupiaq Macrolanguage Living
ira Iranian languages Collective
iro Iroquoian languages Collective
isl / ice* isl is Icelandic Individual Living
ita ita it Italian Individual Living
jav jav jv Javanese Individual Living
jbo jbo Lojban Individual Constructed
jpn jpn ja Japanese Individual Living
jpr jpr Judeo-Persian Individual Living
jrb jrb Judeo-Arabic Macrolanguage Living
kaa kaa Kara-Kalpak Individual Living Karakalpak
kab kab Kabyle Individual Living
kac kac Kachin Individual Living Jingpho
kal kal kl Kalaallisut Individual Living Greenlandic
kam kam Kamba Individual Living
kan kan kn Kannada Individual Living
kar Karen languages Collective Karenic languages
kas kas ks Kashmiri Individual Living
kat / geo* kat ka Georgian Individual Living
kau kau kr Kanuri Macrolanguage Living
kaw kaw Kawi Individual Ancient
kaz kaz kk Kazakh Individual Living
kbd kbd Kabardian Individual Living
kha kha Khasi Individual Living
khi Khoisan languages Collective
khm khm km Central Khmer Individual Living
kho kho Khotanese Individual Ancient Saka; Sakan
kik kik ki Kikuyu Individual Living Gikuyu
kin kin rw Kinyarwanda Individual Living
kir kir ky Kirghiz Individual Living Kyrgyz
kmb kmb Kimbundu Individual Living
kok kok Konkani Macrolanguage Living
kom kom kv Komi Macrolanguage Living
kon kon kg Kongo Macrolanguage Living
kor kor ko Korean Individual Living
kos kos Kosraean Individual Living
kpe kpe Kpelle Macrolanguage Living
krc krc Karachay-Balkar Individual Living
krl krl Karelian Individual Living
kro Kru languages Collective
kru kru Kurukh Individual Living
kua kua kj Kuanyama Individual Living Kwanyama
kum kum Kumyk Individual Living
kur kur ku Kurdish Macrolanguage Living
kut kut Kutenai Individual Living
lad lad Ladino Individual Living Judaeo-Spanish
lah lah Lahnda Macrolanguage Living Western Punjabi
lam lam Lamba Individual Living
lao lao lo Lao Individual Living
lat lat la Latin Individual Ancient
lav lav lv Latvian Macrolanguage Living
lez lez Lezghian Individual Living Lezgian
lim lim li Limburgan Individual Living Limburger; Limburgish
lin lin ln Lingala Individual Living
lit lit lt Lithuanian Individual Living
lol lol Mongo Individual Living
loz loz Lozi Individual Living
ltz ltz lb Luxembourgish Individual Living Letzeburgesch
lua lua Luba-Lulua Individual Living Luba-Kasai
lub lub lu Luba-Katanga Individual Living
lug lug lg Ganda Individual Living Luganda
lui lui Luiseno Individual Extinct
lun lun Lunda Individual Living
luo luo Luo Individual Living (Kenya and Tanzania)
lus lus Lushai Individual Living Mizo
mad mad Madurese Individual Living
mag mag Magahi Individual Living
mah mah mh Marshallese Individual Living
mai mai Maithili Individual Living
mak mak Makasar Individual Living Makassarese
mal mal ml Malayalam Individual Living
man man Mandingo Macrolanguage Living Manding
map Austronesian languages Collective
mar mar mr Marathi Individual Living
mas mas Masai Individual Living
mdf mdf Moksha Individual Living
mdr mdr Mandar Individual Living
men men Mende Individual Living
mga mga Middle Irish Individual Historical 900–1200)
mic mic Micmac Individual Living Mi'kmaq
min min Minangkabau Individual Living
mis mis Uncoded languages Special
mkd / mac mkd mk Macedonian Individual Living
mkh Mon-Khmer languages Collective Austroasiatic languages
mlg mlg mg Malagasy Macrolanguage Living
mlt mlt mt Maltese Individual Living
mnc mnc Manchu Individual Living
mni mni Manipuri Individual Living Meitei
mno Manobo languages Collective
moh moh Mohawk Individual Living
mon mon mn Mongolian Macrolanguage Living
mos mos Mossi Individual Living
mri / mao* mri mi Maori Individual Living Māori
msa / may* msa ms Malay Macrolanguage Living
mul mul Multiple languages Special
mun Munda languages Collective
mus mus Creek Individual Living Muscogee
mwl mwl Mirandese Individual Living
mwr mwr Marwari Macrolanguage Living
mya / bur* mya my Burmese Individual Living Myanmar
myn Mayan languages Collective
myv myv Erzya Individual Living
nah Nahuatl languages Collective Nahuan languages
nai North American Indian languages Collective
nap nap Neapolitan Individual Living
nau nau na Nauruan Individual Living (Nauru clashes with country name)
nav nav nv Navajo Individual Living Navaho
nbl nbl nr South Ndebele Individual Living Southern Ndebele
nde nde nd North Ndebele Individual Living Northern Ndebele
ndo ndo ng Ndonga Individual Living
nds nds Low German Individual Living Low Saxon
nep nep ne Nepali Macrolanguage Living
new new Nepal Bhasa Individual Living Newar; Newari
nia nia Nias Individual Living
nic Niger-Kordofanian languages Collective Niger-Congo languages
niu niu Niuean Individual Living
nld / dut* nld nl Dutch Individual Living Flemish
nno nno nn Norwegian Nynorsk Individual Living Nynorsk
nob nob nb Norwegian Bokmal Individual Living Bokmål
nog nog Nogai Individual Living
non non Old Norse Individual Historical
nor nor no Norwegian Macrolanguage Living
nqo nqo N'Ko Individual Living
nso nso Sepedi Individual Living Northern Sotho; Pedi
nub Nubian languages Collective
nwc nwc Classical Newari; Individual Historical Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa
nya nya ny Chichewa Individual Living Chewa; Nyanja
nym nym Nyamwezi Individual Living
nyn nyn Nyankole Individual Living Nkore
nyo nyo Nyoro Individual Living
nzi nzi Nzima Individual Living Nzema
oci oci oc Occitan Individual Living (post 1500)
oji oji oj Ojibwa Macrolanguage Living Ojibwe
ori ori or Oriya Macrolanguage Living Odia
orm orm om Oromo Macrolanguage Living
osa osa Osage Individual Living
oss oss os Ossetian Individual Living Ossetic
ota ota Ottoman Turkish Individual Historical (1500–1928)
oto Otomian languages Collective Oto-Pamean languages
paa Papuan languages Collective
pag pag Pangasinan Individual Living
pal pal Pahlavi Individual Ancient Middle Persian
pam pam Pampangan Individual Living Kapampangan
pan pan pa Punjabi Individual Living Panjabi
pap pap Papiamento Individual Living
pau pau Palauan Individual Living
peo peo Old Persian Individual Historical (ca. 600–400 B.C.)
phi Philippine languages Collective
phn phn Phoenician Individual Ancient
pli pli pi Pali Individual Ancient
pol pol pl Polish Individual Living
pon pon Pohnpeian Individual Living
por por pt Portuguese Individual Living
pra Prakrit languages Collective
pro pro Old Provencal Individual Historical Old Provençal; Old Occitan; (to 1500)
pus pus ps Pashto Macrolanguage Living Pushto
qaa-qtz qaa-qtz Reserved for local use Local
que que qu Quechua Macrolanguage Living
raj raj Rajasthani Macrolanguage Living
rap rap Rapanui Individual Living
rar rar Maori Kuki Airani Individual Living Cook Islands Māori; Rarotongan
roa Romance languages Collective
roh roh rm Romansh Individual Living
rom rom Romany Macrolanguage Living Romani
ron / rum* ron ro Romanian Individual Living Moldavian; Moldovan
run run rn Rundi Individual Living Kirundi
rup rup Aromanian; Individual Living Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian; Vlach
rus rus ru Russian Individual Living
sad sad Sandawe Individual Living
sag sag sg Sango Individual Living
sah sah Yakut Individual Living
sai South American Indian languages Collective
sal Salishan languages Collective
sam sam Samaritan Aramaic Individual Extinct
san san sa Sanskrit Individual Ancient
sas sas Sasak Individual Living
sat sat Santali Individual Living
scn scn Sicilian Individual Living
sco sco Scots Individual Living
sel sel Selkup Individual Living
sem Semitic languages Collective
sga sga Old Irish Individual Historical (to 900)
sgn Sign Languages Collective
shn shn Shan Individual Living
sid sid Sidamo Individual Living
sin sin si Sinhala Individual Living Sinhalese
sio Siouan languages Collective
sit Sino-Tibetan languages Collective
sla Slavic languages Collective
slk / slo* slk sk Slovak Individual Living
slv slv sl Slovenian Individual Living Slovene
sma sma Southern Sami Individual Living
sme sme se Northern Sami Individual Living
smi Sami languages Collective
smj smj Lule Sami Individual Living
smn smn Inari Sami Individual Living
smo smo sm Samoan Individual Living
sms sms Skolt Sami Individual Living
sna sna sn Shona Individual Living
snd snd sd Sindhi Individual Living
snk snk Soninke Individual Living
sog sog Sogdian Individual Ancient
som som so Somali Individual Living
son Songhai languages Collective Songhay languages
sot sot st Sotho, Southern Individual Living
spa spa es Spanish; Castilian Individual Living
sqi / alb* sqi sq Albanian Macrolanguage Living
srd srd sc Sardinian Macrolanguage Living
srn srn Sranan Tongo Individual Living
srp srp sr Serbian Individual Living
srr srr Serer Individual Living
ssa Nilo-Saharan languages Collective
ssw ssw ss Swati Individual Living Swazi
suk suk Sukuma Individual Living
sun sun su Sundanese Individual Living
sus sus Susu Individual Living
sux sux Sumerian Individual Ancient
swa swa sw Swahili Macrolanguage Living
swe swe sv Swedish Individual Living
syc syc Classical Syriac Individual Historical
syr syr Syriac Macrolanguage Living
tah tah ty Tahitian Individual Living
tai Tai languages Collective
tam tam ta Tamil Individual Living
tat tat tt Tatar Individual Living
tel tel te Telugu Individual Living
tem tem Timne Individual Living Temne
ter ter Tereno Individual Living Terena
tet tet Tetum Individual Living
tgk tgk tg Tajik Individual Living
tgl tgl tl Tagalog Individual Living
tha tha th Thai Individual Living
tig tig Tigre Individual Living
tir tir ti Tigrinya Individual Living
tiv tiv Tiv Individual Living
tkl tkl Tokelau Individual Living Tokelauan
tlh tlh Klingon Individual Constructed TlhIngan-Hol
tli tli Tlingit Individual Living
tmh tmh Tamashek Macrolanguage Living Tamasheq
tog tog Chitonga Individual Living Tonga Nyasa
ton ton to Tongan Individual Living
tpi tpi Tok Pisin Individual Living
tsi tsi Tsimshian Individual Living
tsn tsn tn Tswana Individual Living
tso tso ts Tsonga Individual Living
tuk tuk tk Turkmen Individual Living
tum tum Tumbuka Individual Living
tup Tupi languages Collective Tupian languages
tur tur tr Turkish Individual Living
tut Altaic languages Collective
tvl tvl Tuvalu Individual Living Tuvaluan
twi twi tw Twi Individual Living
tyv tyv Tuvinian Individual Living Tuvan
udm udm Udmurt Individual Living
uga uga Ugaritic Individual Ancient
uig uig ug Uighur Individual Living Uyghur
ukr ukr uk Ukrainian Individual Living
umb umb Umbundu Individual Living
und und Undetermined Special
urd urd ur Urdu Individual Living
uzb uzb uz Uzbek Macrolanguage Living
vai vai Vai Individual Living
ven ven ve Venda Individual Living
vie vie vi Vietnamese Individual Living
vol vol vo Volapuk Individual Constructed Volapük
vot vot Votic Individual Living
wak Wakashan languages Collective
wal wal Wolaitta Individual Living Wolaytta
war war Waray Individual Living
was was Washo Individual Living
wen Sorbian languages Collective
wln wln wa Walloon Individual Living
wol wol wo Wolof Individual Living
xal xal Kalmyk Individual Living Oirat
xho xho xh Xhosa Individual Living
yao yao Yao Individual Living
yap yap Yapese Individual Living
yid yid yi Yiddish Macrolanguage Living
yor yor yo Yoruba Individual Living
ypk Yupik languages Collective
zap zap Zapotec Macrolanguage Living
zbl zbl Blissymbols Individual Constructed Blissymbolics
zen zen Zenaga Individual Living
zgh zgh Standard Moroccan Tamazight Individual Living Standard Moroccan Berber
zha zha za Zhuang Macrolanguage Living Chuang
zho / chi* zho zh Chinese Macrolanguage Living
znd Zande languages Collective
zul zul zu Zulu Individual Living
zun zun Zuni Individual Living
zxx zxx No linguistic content; Not applicable Special
zza zza Zaza; Macrolanguage Living Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki