ISO 639 Language Codes

ISO Language Names	Set 1	Set 2		Set 3	Endonym(s)	Other Name(s) [note 1]	Notes
		T	B
Abkhazian	ab	abk		abk	Аҧсуа; Apsua; აფსუა	Abkhaz
Afar	aa	aar		aar	Qafar af
Afrikaans	af	afr		afr	Afrikaans
Akan	ak	aka		aka + 2	Ákán		Twi is tw/twi, Fanti is fat
Albanian	sq	sqi	alb	sqi + 4	Shqip	called "Albanian Phylozone" in 639-6
Amharic	am	amh		amh	አማርኛ (Amarəñña)
Arabic	ar	ara		ara + 28	اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ (al-ʿarabiyyah)		Standard Arabic is arb
Aragonese	an	arg		arg	Aragonés
Armenian	hy	hye	arm	hye	Հայերեն (Hayeren)		ISO 639-3 code hye is for Eastern Armenian, hyw is for Western Armenian, and xcl is for Classical Armenian
Assamese	as	asm		asm	অসমীয়া (Ôxômiya)	Asamiya
Avaric	av	ava		ava	Авар мацӏ; اوار ماض (Avar maz)	Avar
Avestan	ae	ave		ave	Upastawakaēna
Aymara	ay	aym		aym + 2	Aymara	Aymaran
Azerbaijani	az	aze		aze + 2	Azərbaycan dili; آذربایجان دیلی; Азәрбајҹан дили	Azeri
Bambara	bm	bam		bam	بَمَنَنكَن ;ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲ (Bamanankan)	Bamana; Bamanankan
Bashkir	ba	bak		bak	Башҡорт теле; Başqort tele	Bashkort
Basque	eu	eus	baq	eus	Euskara/Euskera
Belarusian	be	bel		bel	Беларуская мова (Biełaruskaja mova)
Bengali	bn	ben		ben	বাংলা (Bāŋlā)	Bangla
Bislama	bi	bis		bis	Bislama		Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence.
Bosnian	bs	bos		bos	Босански (Bosanski)	Bosniak	Member language of Serbo-Croatian with code sh deprecated in 2000
Breton	br	bre		bre	Brezhoneg
Bulgarian	bg	bul		bul	Български (Bulgarski)
Burmese	my	mya	bur	mya	မြန်မာစာ (Mrãmācā)	Myanmar
Catalan, Valencian	ca	cat		cat	Català; Valencià
Central Khmer	km	khm		khm	ខេមរភាសា; (Khémôrôphéasa)	Khmer; Cambodian
Chamorro	ch	cha		cha	Finu' Chamoru
Chechen	ce	che		che	Нохчийн мотт; (Noxçiyn mott)	Chechnyan; Chechnian
Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja	ny	nya		nya	Chichewa; Chinyanja
Chinese	zh	zho	chi	zho + 19	中文 (Zhōngwén) 汉语; 漢語 (Hànyǔ)
Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic	cu	chu		chu	Славе́нскїй ѧ҆зы́къ		In use by the Eastern Orthodox Church
Chuvash	cv	chv		chv	Чӑвашла (Çăvaşla)
Cornish	kw	cor		cor	Kernowek
Corsican	co	cos		cos	Corsu
Cree	cr	cre		cre + 6	ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ (Nehiyawewin)
Croatian	hr	hrv		hrv	Hrvatski	Crovatian	Member language of Serbo-Croatian with code sh deprecated in 2000
Czech	cs	ces	cze	ces	Čeština	Czechian
Danish	da	dan		dan	Dansk
Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian	dv	div		div	ދިވެހި (Dhivehi)
Dutch, Flemish	nl	nld	dut	nld	Nederlands		Flemish is not to be confused with the closely related West Flemish which is referred to as "Vlaams" and has the code vls in ISO 639-3
Dzongkha	dz	dzo		dzo	རྫོང་ཁ་ (Dzongkha)	Bhutanese
English	en	eng		eng	English
Esperanto	eo	epo		epo	Esperanto
Estonian	et	est		est + 2	Eesti keel
Ewe	ee	ewe		ewe	Èʋegbe
Faroese	fo	fao		fao	Føroyskt	Faeroese
Fijian	fj	fij		fij	Na Vosa Vakaviti
Finnish	fi	fin		fin	Suomi
French	fr	fra	fre	fra	Français
Fulah	ff	ful		ful + 9	𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫 ;ࢻُلْࢻُلْدٜ; Fulfulde 𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪 ;ݒُلَارْ; Pulaar	Fula; Fulani
Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic	gd	gla		gla	Gàidhlig	Scots Gaelic
Galician	gl	glg		glg	Galego	Galego
Ganda	lg	lug		lug	Luganda	Luganda
Georgian	ka	kat	geo	kat	ქართული (Kharthuli)
German	de	deu	ger	deu	Deutsch
Greek, Modern (1453–)	el	ell	gre	ell	Νέα Ελληνικά; (Néa Ellêniká)		for Ancient Greek, use the ISO 639-3 code grc
Guarani	gn	grn		grn + 5	Avañe'ẽ
Gujarati	gu	guj		guj	ગુજરાતી (Gujarātī)
Haitian, Haitian Creole	ht	hat		hat	Kreyòl ayisyen
Hausa	ha	hau		hau	هَرْشٜن هَوْس (halshen Hausa)	Hausan
Hebrew	he	heb		heb	עברית‎ (Ivrit)		Modern Hebrew. Code changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, iw.[3]
Herero	hz	her		her	Otjiherero	Otjiherero
Hindi	hi	hin		hin	हिन्दी (Hindī)
Hiri Motu	ho	hmo		hmo	Hiri Motu	Police Motu; Pidgin Motu
Hungarian	hu	hun		hun	Magyar nyelv	Magyar
Icelandic	is	isl	ice	isl	Íslenska
Ido	io	ido		ido	Ido
Igbo	ig	ibo		ibo	ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò
Indonesian	id	ind		ind	bahasa Indonesia		covered by macrolanguage ms/msa. Changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, in.[3]
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)	ia	ina		ina	Interlingua
Interlingue, Occidental	ie	ile		ile	Interlingue; Occidental
Inuktitut	iu	iku		iku + 2	ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (Inuktitut)
Inupiaq	ik	ipk		ipk + 2	Iñupiaq	Inupiat; Inupiatun
Irish	ga	gle		gle	Gaeilge	Irish Gaelic
Italian	it	ita		ita	Italiano
Japanese	ja	jpn		jpn	日本語 (Nihongo)
Javanese	jv	jav		jav	ꦧꦱꦗꦮ; basa Jawa
Kalaallisut, Greenlandic	kl	kal		kal	Kalaallisut
Kannada	kn	kan		kan	ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannađa)	Kannadan; Canarese
Kanuri	kr	kau		kau + 3	كَنُرِيِه; Kànùrí
Kashmiri	ks	kas		kas	कॉशुर; كأشُر (Kosher)	Koshur
Kazakh	kk	kaz		kaz	Қазақша; Qazaqşa; قازاقشا	Qazaq
Kikuyu, Gikuyu	ki	kik		kik	Gĩgĩkũyũ
Kinyarwanda	rw	kin		kin	Ikinyarwanda	Rwandan; Rwanda; Ikinyarwanda
Komi	kv	kom		kom + 2	Коми кыв	Zyran; Zyrian; Komi-Zyryan
Kongo	kg	kon		kon + 3	Kikongo	Kikongo
Korean	ko	kor		kor	한국어 (Hangugeo) 조선말 (Chosŏnmal)
Kuanyama, Kwanyama	kj	kua		kua	Oshikwanyama	Cuanhama; Oshikwanyama
Kurdish	ku	kur		kur + 3	کوردی; Kurdî
Kyrgyz, Kirghiz	ky	kir		kir	Кыргыз; قىرعىز
Lao	lo	lao		lao	ພາສາລາວ (phasa Lao)	Laotian
Latin	la	lat		lat	Latinum		In use by several Christian organization of churches, and for sciences
Latvian	lv	lav		lav + 2	Latviski	Lettish
Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish	li	lim		lim	Lèmburgs
Lingala	ln	lin		lin	Lingála	Ngala
Lithuanian	lt	lit		lit	Lietuvių
Luba-Katanga	lu	lub		lub	Kiluba	Luba-Shaba
Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch	lb	ltz		ltz	Lëtzebuergesch	Luxembourgian
Macedonian	mk	mkd	mac	mkd	Македонски (Makedonski)
Malagasy	mg	mlg		mlg + 11	مَلَغَسِ; Malagasy
Malay	ms	msa	may	msa + 36	بهاس ملايو (bahasa Melayu)		Standard Malay is zsm, Indonesian is id/ind
Malayalam	ml	mal		mal	മലയാളം (Malayāļã)
Maltese	mt	mlt		mlt	Malti
Manx	gv	glv		glv	Gaelg; Gailck	Manx Gaelic
Maori	mi	mri	mao	mri	reo Māori
Marathi	mr	mar		mar	मराठी (Marāṭhī)	Maharashtran
Marshallese	mh	mah		mah	kajin M̧ajel‌̧	Ebon
Mongolian	mn	mon		mon + 2	ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ; Монгол хэл (Mongol xel)	Mongol
Nauru	na	nau		nau	dorerin Naoe	Nauruan
Navajo, Navaho	nv	nav		nav	Diné bizaad; Naabeehó bizaad
Ndonga	ng	ndo		ndo	Ndonga	Oshindonga
Nepali	ne	nep		nep + 2	नेपाली भाषा (Nepālī bhāśā)	Nepalese; Gorkhali
North Ndebele	nd	nde		nde	isiNdebele; saseNyakatho; Mthwakazi Ndebele	Northern Ndebele
Northern Sami	se	sme		sme	Davvisámegiella	North Sami
Norwegian	no	nor		nor + 2	Norsk		Bokmål is nb/nob, Nynorsk is nn/nno
Norwegian Bokmål	nb	nob		nob	Norsk Bokmål		covered by macrolanguage no/nor
Norwegian Nynorsk	nn	nno		nno	Norsk Nynorsk		covered by macrolanguage no/nor
Occitan	oc	oci		oci	Occitan; Provençal	Provential; Provencal
Ojibwa	oj	oji		oji + 7	ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ (Anishinaabemowin)	Ojibwe; Ojibway; Otchipwe; Ojibwemowin
Oriya	or	ori		ori + 2	ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Odia)	Odian; Odishan; Orissan
Oromo	om	orm		orm + 4	afaan Oromoo	Oromoo
Ossetian, Ossetic	os	oss		oss	ирон Ӕвзаг (iron Ævzag)	Ossete
Pali	pi	pli		pli	Pāli	Pali-Magadhi
Pashto, Pushto	ps	pus		pus + 3	پښتو (Pax̌tow)
Persian	fa	fas	per	fas + 2	فارسی (Fārsiy)	Farsi
Polish	pl	pol		pol	Polski
Portuguese	pt	por		por	Português
Punjabi, Panjabi	pa	pan		pan	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ; پنجابی (Pãjābī)
Quechua	qu	que		que + 43	Runa simi; kichwa simi; Nuna shimi	Quechuan
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan	ro	ron	rum	ron	Română; Ромынэ		the identifiers mo and mol for Moldavian are deprecated. They will not be assigned to different items, and recordings using these identifiers will not be invalid.
Romansh	rm	roh		roh	Rumantsch; Rumàntsch; Romauntsch; Romontsch	Romansch
Rundi	rn	run		run	Ikirundi	Kirundi
Russian	ru	rus		rus	Русский язык (Russkiĭ âzyk)
Samoan	sm	smo		smo	gagana Sāmoa
Sango	sg	sag		sag	yângâ tî Sängö	Sangoic
Sanskrit	sa	san		san + 2	संस्कृतम् (Saṃskṛtam)		In use by some Indian states on judicial purposes
Sardinian	sc	srd		srd + 4	Sardu	Sard
Serbian	sr	srp		srp	Српски (Srpski)		Member language of Serbo-Croatian with code sh deprecated in 2000, the ISO 639-2/T code srp deprecated the ISO 639-2/B code scc[4]
Shona	sn	sna		sna	chiShona
Sichuan Yi, Nuosu	ii	iii		iii	ꆈꌠꉙ (Nuosuhxop)	Northern Yi; Liangshan Yi; Nosu	standard form of the Yi languages
Sindhi	sd	snd		snd	سنڌي; सिन्धी (Sindhī)
Sinhala, Sinhalese	si	sin		sin	සිංහල (Siṁhala)
Slovak	sk	slk	slo	slk	Slovenčina	Slovakian
Slovenian	sl	slv		slv	Slovenščina	Slovene
Somali	so	som		som	Soomaali; 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘; سٝومالِ	Somalian
South Ndebele	nr	nbl		nbl	isiNdebele; sakwaNdzundza	Southern Ndebele
Southern Sotho	st	sot		sot	Sesotho	Sesotho; Sotho
Spanish, Castilian	es	spa		spa	Español; Castellano
Sundanese	su	sun		sun	basa Sunda; ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ; بَاسَا سُوْندَا
Swahili	sw	swa		swa + 2	Kiswahili; كِسوَحِيلِ	Kiswahili
Swati	ss	ssw		ssw	siSwati	Swazi
Swedish	sv	swe		swe	Svenska
Tagalog	tl	tgl		tgl	Wikang Tagalog		note: Filipino (Pilipino) has the code fil
Tahitian	ty	tah		tah	reo Tahiti		One of the Reo Mā`ohi (languages of French Polynesia)[5]
Tajik	tg	tgk		tgk	Тоҷикӣ (Tojikī)	Tajiki
Tamil	ta	tam		tam	தமிழ் (Tamiḻ)	Thamizh
Tatar	tt	tat		tat	Татар теле; Tatar tele; تاتار تئلئ‎
Telugu	te	tel		tel	తెలుగు (Telugu)
Thai	th	tha		tha	ภาษาไทย (Phasa Thai)	Central Thai; Siamese
Tibetan	bo	bod	tib	bod	བོད་སྐད་ (Bodskad); ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་ (Lhas'iskad)	Standard Tibetan; Lhasa Tibetan
Tigrinya	ti	tir		tir	ትግርኛ (Təgrəñña)	Tigrigna
Tonga (Tonga Islands)	to	ton		ton	lea faka-Tonga	Tongan
Tsonga	ts	tso		tso	Xitsonga	Xitsonga
Tswana	tn	tsn		tsn	Setswana	Setswana; Sechuana
Turkish	tr	tur		tur	Türkçe
Turkmen	tk	tuk		tuk	Türkmençe; Түркменче; تۆرکمنچه
Twi	tw	twi		twi	Twi		covered by macrolanguage ak/aka
Uighur, Uyghur	ug	uig		uig	ئۇيغۇر تىلى; Уйғур тили; Uyƣur tili
Ukrainian	uk	ukr		ukr	Українська (Ukraїnska)
Urdu	ur	urd		urd	اُردُو (Urduw)
Uzbek	uz	uzb		uzb + 2	Ózbekça; ўзбекча; ئوزبېچه
Venda	ve	ven		ven	Tshivenḓa	Tshivenda
Vietnamese	vi	vie		vie	tiếng Việt
Volapük	vo	vol		vol	Volapük
Walloon	wa	wln		wln	Walon
Welsh	cy	cym	wel	cym	Cymraeg
Western Frisian	fy	fry		fry	Frysk	West Frisian; Frisian; Fries
Wolof	wo	wol		wol	وࣷلࣷفْ
Xhosa	xh	xho		xho	isiXhosa	Xosa
Yiddish	yi	yid		yid + 2	ייִדיש (Yidiš)	Judeo-German	Changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, ji.[3]
Yoruba	yo	yor		yor	èdè Yorùbá
Zhuang, Chuang	za	zha		zha + 16	話僮 (Vahcuengh)
Zulu	zu	zul		zul	isiZulu