This is the list of ISO 639-2 language codes implemented in the ISAN Registry.
ISO 639-2 Code | English name of Language |
AAR | Afar |
ABK | Abkhazian |
ACE | Achinese (Aceh) |
ACH | Acoli |
ADA | Adangme(One of the Ghana language) |
ADY | Adyghe; Adygei |
AFA | Afro-Asiatic (Other) |
AFH | Afrihili |
AFR | Afrikaans |
AIN | Ainu |
AKA | Akan(One of the Ghana language) |
AKK | Akkadian (Babylonian) |
ALB | Albanian |
ALE | Aleut (an Eskimo language from Aleutian Islands) |
ALG | Algonquian languages |
ALT | Southern Altai |
AMH | Amharic (or Abyssinian-main language of Ethiopia) |
ANG | English-Old (ca.450-1100) |
ANP | Angika |
APA | Apache languages |
ARA | Arabic |
ARC | Aramaic (Syria) |
ARG | Aragonese |
ARM | Armenian (Hayeren) |
ARN | Araucanian (S.Central Chile) |
ARP | Arapaho |
ART | Artificial (Other) |
ARW | Arawak |
ASM | Assamese (Indo-Iranian sub family) |
AST | Asturian-Bable-Leonese-Asturleonese |
ATH | Athapascan languages |
AUS | Australianl anguages |
AVA | Avaric |
AVE | Avestan |
AWA | Awadhi |
AYM | Aymara (language from indigenous people near lake Titicaca basin in Peru and Bolivia) |
AZE | Azerbaijani (Azeri) |
BAD | Banda |
BAI | Bamileke languages |
BAK | Bashkir |
BAL | Baluchi |
BAM | Bambara |
BAN | Balinese |
BAQ | Basque |
BAS | Basa |
BAT | Baltic (Other) |
BEJ | Beja (spoken near Ethiopia and ajoining regions) |
BEL | Belarussian (white russian) |
BEM | Bemba |
BEN | Bengali (Bangla) |
BER | Berber (Other) |
BHO | Bhojpuri |
BIH | Bihari (an east indic language) |
BIK | Bikol |
BIN | Bini |
BIS | Bislama (one of the major Vanuatu language) |
BLA | Siksika (Blackfoot) |
BNT | Bantu (Other) |
BOS | Bosnian |
BRA | Braj |
BRE | Breton (Brez) |
BTK | Batak (Indonesia) |
BUA | Buriat |
BUG | Buginese (Bugi) |
BUL | Bulgarian |
BUR | Burmese (Myanmasa)(belonging to the Tibeto-Burman sub family) |
BYN | Blin; Bilin |
CAD | Caddo |
CAI | Central American Indian (Oth.) |
CAK | Cakchiquel, Kaqchikel |
CAR | Carib |
CAT | Catalan |
CAU | Caucasian (Other) |
CEB | Cebuano |
CEL | Celtic (Other) |
CHA | Chamorro (Guam and Northern Mariana Islands) |
CHB | Chibcha (Colombia) |
CHE | Chechen |
CHG | Chagatai |
CHI | Chinese (Zhongwen) |
CHK | Chuukese |
CHM | Mari |
CHN | Chinookjargon |
CHO | Choctaw |
CHP | Chipewyan |
CHR | Cherokee |
CHU | Church Slavic |
CHV | Chuvash |
CHY | Cheyenne |
CJS | Shor |
CMC | Chamic languages |
CMN | Mandarin Dialect |
CNR | Montenegrin |
COP | Coptic |
COR | Cornish |
COS | Corsican |
CPE | Creoles and pidgins-English-based (Other) |
CPF | Creoles and pidgins-French-based (Other) |
CPP | Creoles and pidgins-Portuguese-based (Other) |
CRE | Cree |
CRH | Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish |
CRI | Saotomense |
CRP | Creoles and pidgins (Other) |
CSB | Kashubian |
CUS | Cushitic (Other) |
CZE | Czech |
DAK | Dakota |
DAN | Danish |
DAR | Dargwa |
DAY | Dayak |
DEL | Delaware |
DEN | Slave (Athapascan) |
DGR | Dogrib |
DIN | Dinka |
DIV | Divehi (Maldives) |
DJC | Dar Daju Daju |
DOI | Dogri |
DRA | Dravidian (Other) |
DSB | Lower Sorbian |
DUA | Duala |
DUM | Dutch-Middle (ca.1050-1350) |
DUT | Dutch |
DYU | Dyula |
DZO | Dzongkha (Bhutani) |
EFI | Efik |
EGY | Egyptian (Ancient) |
EKA | Ekajuk |
ELX | Elamite |
ENG | English |
ENM | English-Middle (1100-1500) |
EPO | Esperanto |
EST | Estonian (Eesti) |
EWE | Ewe (mainl anguage of Togo) |
EWO | Ewondo |
FAN | Fang (Equatorial Guinea and Gabon) |
FAO | Faroese (Faeroese Island) |
FAT | Fanti (One of the Ghana language) |
FIJ | Fijian |
FIL | Filipino; Pilipino |
FIN | Finnish (Suomi) |
FIU | Finno-Ugrian (Lapland language) |
FNG | Fanagalo |
FON | Fon (Official language of Benin with French) |
FRE | French |
FRM | French-Middle (ca.1400-1600) |
FRO | French-Old (ca.842-1400) |
FRR | Northern Frisian |
FRS | Eastern Frisian |
FRY | Frisian (Frysk) |
FUL | Fulah (From Senegal to eastern Sudan) |
FUR | Friulian |
GAA | Ga |
GAY | Gayo |
GBA | Gbaya |
GEM | Germanic (Other) |
GEO | Georgian (Kartuli) |
GER | German |
GEZ | Geez(classical Ethiopic) |
GIL | Gilbertese (Kiribati) |
GLA | Gaelic (Scots) |
GLE | Irish |
GLG | Gallegan (Galician-Galego) |
GLV | Manx |
GMH | German-Middle High (ca.1050-1500) |
GOH | German-Old High (ca.750-1050) |
GON | Gondi |
GOR | Gorontalo |
GOT | Gothic |
GRB | Grebo |
GRC | Greek-Ancient (to1453) |
GRE | Greek-Modern (1453-)(Ellinika) |
GRN | Guarani (bolivia-paraguay-and south of Brezil) |
GSW | Swiss German |
GUJ | Gujarati (north west india) |
GWI | Gwich'in |
HAI | Haida |
HAT | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
HAU | Hausa (Nigeria) |
HAW | Hawaiian |
HAZ | Hazaragi |
HBS | Serbo-Croatian |
HEB | Hebrew (Iwrith) |
HER | Herero (Namibia) |
HIL | Hiligaynon |
HIM | Himachali |
HIN | Hindi (official language of northern India) |
HIT | Hittite |
HMN | Hmong |
HMO | HiriMotu |
HRV | Croatian |
HSB | Upper Sorbian |
HUN | Hungarian (Magyar) |
HUP | Hupa |
IBA | Iban |
IBO | Igbo |
ICE | Icelandic |
IDO | Ido |
III | Sichuan Yi; Nuosu |
IJO | Ijo |
IKU | Inuktitut |
ILE | Interlingue |
ILO | Iloko |
INA | Interlingua (International Auxilary Language Association) |
INC | Indic (Other) |
IND | Indonesian |
INE | Indo-European (Other) |
INH | Ingush |
IPK | Inupiak |
IRA | Iranian (Other) |
IRO | Iroquoian languages |
ITA | Italian |
JAV | Javanese |
JBO | Lojban |
JPN | Japanese (Nihongo) |
JPR | Judeo-Persian |
JRB | Judeo-Arabic |
KAA | Kara-Kalpak |
KAB | Kabyle |
KAC | Kachin |
KAL | Kalaallisut(or Greenlandic) |
KAM | Kamba (Kenya) |
KAN | Kannada |
KAR | Karen |
KAS | Kashmiri |
KAU | Kanuri |
KAW | Kawi |
KAZ | Kazakh |
KBD | Kabardian |
KEA | Kabuverdianu |
KHA | Khasi |
KHI | Khoisan (Other) (Namibia and West South Africa) |
KHM | Khmer (Cambodian) |
KHO | Khotanese (or Saka-EastIranian) |
KIK | Kikuyu (Northern Kenya) |
KIN | Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) |
KIR | Kirghiz |
KLS | Kalasha |
KMB | Kimbundu (Angola) |
KOK | Konkani (south indic) |
KOM | Komi |
KON | Kongo |
KOR | Korean |
KOS | Kosraean |
KPE | Kpelle |
KRC | Karachay-Balkar |
KRL | Karelian |
KRO | Kru |
KRU | Kurukh |
KUA | Kuanyama |
KUM | Kumyk |
KUR | Kurdish |
KUT | Kutenai |
LAD | Ladino |
LAH | Lahnda |
LAM | Lamba |
LAO | Lao (Laothian) |
LAT | Latin |
LAV | Latvian (lettish-letonian) |
LBJ | Ladakhi |
LEZ | Lezghian |
LIM | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish |
LIN | Lingala |
LIT | Lithuanian |
LKT | Lakota |
LOL | Mongo |
LOZ | Lozi |
LTZ | Letzeburgesch (luxembourg low german dialect) |
LUA | Luba-Lulua (Central Zaire) |
LUB | Luba-Katanga |
LUG | Ganda(or Baganda-Uganda) |
LUI | Luiseno |
LUN | Lunda |
LUO | Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) |
LUS | Lushai |
MAC | Macedonian |
MAD | Madurese |
MAG | Magahi |
MAH | Marshall |
MAI | Maithili |
MAK | Makasar |
MAL | Malayalam |
MAN | Mandingo (spoken in Sierra Leone-Liberia-Guinea-Ivory Coast-Mali and Burkina Faso) |
MAO | Maori |
MAP | Austronesian (Other-Malayo-Polynesian) |
MAR | Marathi |
MAS | Masai (Nomadic people of East Africa-Kenya and Tanzania) |
MAY | Malay |
MDF | Moksha |
MDR | Mandar |
MEN | Mende(Sierra Leone) |
MEY | Hassaniyya |
MGA | Irish-Middle(900-1200) |
MIC | Micmac |
MIN | Minangkabau |
MIS | Miscellaneous languages |
MKH | Mon-Khmer (Other) |
MLG | Malagasy |
MLT | Maltese |
MNC | Manchu |
MNI | Manipuri |
MNO | Manobo languages |
MOH | Mohawk |
MOL | Moldavian |
MON | Mongolian |
MOS | Mossi(More) |
MUL | Multiple languages |
MUN | Mundal anguages |
MUS | Creek(Muskogee) |
MWL | Mirandese |
MWR | Marwari |
MYN | Mayan languages |
MYV | Erzya |
NAH | Aztec (Nahuatl) |
NAI | North American Indian (Other) |
NAP | Neapolitan |
NAQ | Khoekhoe, Nama (Namibia) |
NAU | Nauru |
NAV | Navajo |
NBL | Ndebele-South (Zimbabwe-Botswana) |
NDE | Ndebele-North (Zimbabwe-Botswana) |
NDO | Ndonga |
NDS | Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low |
NEP | Nepali |
NEW | Newari |
NIA | Nias |
NIC | Niger-Kordofanian (Other) |
NIU | Niuean (Niue Island) |
NNO | Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian |
NOB | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
NOD | Northern Thai |
NOG | Nogai |
NON | Norse-Old |
NOR | Norwegian |
NQO | N'Ko |
NSO | Sohto-Northern |
NUB | Nubian languages |
NWC | Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa |
NYA | Nyanja |
NYM | Nyamwezi |
NYN | Nyankole |
NYO | Nyoro |
NZI | Nzima |
OCI | Occitan (post1500) |
OJI | Ojibwa |
ORI | Oriya |
ORM | Oromo (Galla or Afan) (West and South Ethiopia and Kenya) |
OSA | Osage |
OSS | Ossetic |
OTA | Turkish-Ottoman(1500-1928) |
OTO | Otomian languages |
PAA | Papuan(Other) |
PAG | Pangasinan |
PAL | Pahlavi |
PAM | Pampanga |
PAN | Panjabi(language of Punjab) |
PAP | Papiamento |
PAU | Palauan (Palau Island in Micronesia) |
PEO | Persian-Old (ca.600-400B.C.) |
PER | Persian (Farsi) |
PEZ | Eastern Penan |
PHI | Philippine (Other) |
PHN | Phoenician |
PLI | Pali |
POL | Polish |
PON | Pohnpeian |
POR | Portuguese |
PRA | Prakrit languages |
PRO | Provencal-Old (to1500) |
PRS | Afghan Persian, Dari |
PUS | Pushto (or Pachto-Afghan) |
QSI | Silent Film |
QUE | Quechua(Bolivia-Peru and Ecuador) |
RAJ | Rajasthani |
RAP | Rapanui |
RAR | Rarotongan |
RCF | Réunion Creole French |
ROA | Romance (Other) |
ROH | Raeto-Romance |
ROM | Romany(Gipsy language) |
RUM | Romanian |
RUN | Rundi (or Kirundi) |
RUP | Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian |
RUS | Russian |
RUY | Central Okinawan |
SAD | Sandawe |
SAG | Sango (Central African Republic) |
SAH | Yakut |
SAI | South American Indian (Other) |
SAL | Salishan languages |
SAM | Samaritan Aramaic |
SAN | Sanskrit |
SAS | Sasak |
SAT | Santali |
SCN | Sicilian |
SCO | Scots |
SEL | Selkup |
SEM | Semitic (Other) |
SGA | Irish-Old (to900) |
SGN | Sign Languages |
SHN | Shan |
SID | Sidamo |
SIN | Sinhalese (Sri Lanka) |
SIO | Siouan languages |
SIT | Sino-Tibetan (Other) |
SLA | Slavic (Other) |
SLO | Slovak |
SLV | Slovenian |
SMA | Southern Sami |
SME | Northern Sami |
SMI | Sami languages |
SMJ | Lule Sami |
SMN | Inari Sami |
SMO | Samoan |
SMS | Skolt Sami |
SNA | Shona |
SND | Sindhi |
SNK | Soninke |
SOG | Sogdian |
SOM | Somali |
SON | Songhai |
SOT | Sotho (Southern-language of The Lesotho) |
SPA | Spanish |
SRD | Sardinian |
SRN | Sranan Tongo |
SRP | Serbian |
SRR | Serer |
SSA | Nilo-Saharan (Other) |
SSW | Swati (Siswant-Siswati) |
SUK | Sukuma |
SUN | Sundanese |
SUS | Susu(Guinea) |
SUX | Sumerian |
SWA | Swahili (abantu language over much of east Africa and the Congo region) |
SWE | Swedish |
SYC | Classical Syriac |
SYR | Syriac |
TAH | Tahitian |
TAI | Tai (Other) |
TAM | Tamil (part of India and Sri Lanka) |
TAT | Tatar |
TEL | Telugu |
TEM | Timne |
TER | Tereno |
TET | Tetum |
TGK | Tajik |
TGL | Tagalog (Philipines) |
THA | Thai |
TIB | Tibetan (Bodskad) |
TIG | Tigre |
TIR | Tigrinya |
TIV | Tiv |
TKL | Tokelau |
TLH | Klingon; tlh Ingan-Hol |
TLI | Tlingit |
TMH | Tuareg (Tamashek) |
TOG | Tonga (Nyasa) |
TON | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
TPI | Tok Pisin |
TSI | Tsimshian |
TSN | Tswana (Setswana) |
TSO | Tsonga |
TUK | Turkmen |
TUM | Tumbuka |
TUP | Tupi languages |
TUR | Turkish |
TUT | Altaic (Other) |
TVL | Tuvalu |
TWI | Twi |
TYV | Tuvinian |
UDM | Udmurt |
UGA | Ugaritic |
UIG | Uighur |
UKR | Ukrainian |
UMB | Umbundu |
UND | Undetermined |
URD | Urdu (Pakistanian) |
UZB | Uzbek |
VAI | Vai |
VEN | Venda (South africa) |
VIE | Vietnamese |
VOL | Volapuk |
VOT | Votic |
WAK | Wakashan languages |
WAL | Walamo |
WAR | Waray |
WAS | Washo |
WEL | Welsh |
WEN | Sorbian languages |
WLN | Walloon |
WOD | Wolani |
WOL | Wolof (niger-congo language of senegambia) |
XAL | Kalmyk; Oirat |
XCA | Cantonese (Chinese dialect from Guangzhou) |
XCH | Chadic (spoken in Chad-northern Cameroon and northern Nigeria) |
XCI | Swiss Italian dialect |
XCS | Caspian |
XHO | Xhosa(Lesotho-Bantustan-South Africa) |
XLA | Laz |
XPY | Pygmies language |
XWA | Wallon |
YAO | Yao |
YAP | Yapese |
YID | Yiddish |
YOR | Yoruba (South West Nigeria and Benin) |
YPK | Yupik languages |
ZAP | Zapotec |
ZBL | Blissymbols; Blissymbolics; Bliss |
ZEN | Zenaga |
ZGH | Standard Moroccan Tamazight |
ZHA | Zhuang |
ZND | Zande |
ZUL | Zulu |
ZUN | Zuni |
ZZA | Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki |
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