ISO 639-1

An international standard that designates two letters to each language.

This page contains the languages listed as **ISO 639-1**.

|Language|Native name|639-1 code|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Abkhaz||ab|
|Afar||aa|
|Afrikaans||af|
|Akan, Twi-Fante||ak|
|Albanian||sq|
|Amharic||am|
|Arabic||ar|
|Aragonese||an|
|Armenian||hy|
|Assamese||as|
|Avaric||av|
|Avestan||ae|
|Aymara||ay|
|Azerbaijani||az|
|Bambara||bm|
|Bashkir||ba|
|Basque||eu|
|Belarusian||be|
|Bengali||bn|
|Bihari||bh|
|Bislama||bi|
|Bosnian||bs|
|Breton||br|
|Bulgarian||bg|
|Burmese||my|
|Catalan; Valencian||ca|
|Chamorro||ch|
|Chechen||ce|
|Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja||ny|
|Chinese|(Zhōngwén), ,|zh|
|Chuvash||cv|
|Cornish||kw|
|Corsican||co|
|Cree||cr|
|Croatian||hr|
|Czech||cs|
|Danish||da|
|Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian;||dv|
|Dutch||nl|
|Dzongkha||dz|
|English|English|en|
|Esperanto||eo|
|Estonian||et|
|Ewe||ee|
|Faroese||fo|
|Fijian||fj|
|Finnish||fi|
|French||fr|
|Fula; Fulah; Pulaar; Pular||ff|
|Galician||gl|
|Georgian||ka|
|German||de|
|Greek, Modern||el|
|Guaraní||gn|
|Gujarati||gu|
|Haitian; Haitian Creole||ht|
|Hausa||ha|
|Hebrew (modern)||he|
|Herero||hz|
|Hindi||hi|
|Hiri Motu||ho|
|Hungarian||hu|
|Interlingua||ia|
|Indonesian||id|
|Interlingue|Originally called Occidental; then Interlingue after WWII<sup>[citation needed]</sup>|i.e.|
|Irish||ga|
|Igbo||ig|
|Inupiaq||ik|
|Ido||io|
|Icelandic||is|
|Italian||it|
|Inuktitut||iu|
|Japanese|()|ja|
|Javanese||jv|
|Kalaallisut, Greenlandic||kl|
|Kannada||kn|
|Kanuri||kr|
|Kashmiri||ks|
|Kazakh||kk|
|Khmer, Cambodian||km|
|Kikuyu, Gikuyu||ki|
|Kinyarwanda||rw|
|Kirghiz, Kyrgyz||ky|
|Komi||kv|
|Kongo||kg|
|Korean|한국어(韓國語),  (),  ()|ko|
|Kurdish|,|ku|
|Kwanyama, Kuanyama||kj|
|Latin||la|
|Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch||lb|
|Luganda||lg|
|Limburgish, Limburgan, Limburger||li|
|Lingala||ln|
|Lao||lo|
|Lithuanian||lt|
|Luba-Katanga||lu|
|Latvian||lv|
|Manx||gv|
|Macedonian||mk|
|Malagasy||mg|
|Malay|,|ms|
|Malayalam||ml|
|Maltese||mt|
|Māori||mi|
|Marathi (Marāṭhī)||mr|
|Marshallese||mh|
|Mongolian||mn|
|Nauru||na|
|Navajo, Navaho||nv|
|Norwegian Bokmål||nb|
|North Ndebele||nd|
|Nepali||ne|
|Ndonga||ng|
|Norwegian Nynorsk||nn|
|Norwegian||no|
|Nuosu||ii|
|South Ndebele||nr|
|Occitan||oc|
|Ojibwe, Ojibwa||oj|
|Old Church Slavonic, Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian, Old Slavonic||cu|
|Oromo||om|
|Oriya||or|
|Ossetian, Ossetic||os|
|Panjabi, Punjabi|,|pa|
|Pāli||pi|
|Persian||fa|
|Polish||pl|
|Pashto, Pushto||ps|
|Portuguese||pt|
|Quechua||qu|
|Romansh||rm|
|Kirundi||rn|
|Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan||ro|
|Russian||ru|
|Sanskrit (Saṁskṛta)||sa|
|Sardinian||sc|
|Sindhi|,|sd|
|Northern Sami||se|
|Samoan||sm|
|Sango||sg|
|Serbian||sr|
|Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic||gd|
|Shona||sn|
|Sinhala, Sinhalese||si|
|Slovak||sk|
|Slovene||sl|
|Somali||so|
|Southern Sotho||st|
|Spanish; Castilian||es|
|Sundanese||su|
|Swahili||sw|
|Swati||ss|
|Swedish||sv|
|Tamil||ta|
|Telugu||te|
|Tajik|, ,|tg|
|Thai||th|
|Tigrinya||ti|
|Tibetan Standard, Central Tibetan||bo|
|Turkmen||tk|
|Tagalog||tl|
|Tswana||tn|
|Tongan||to|
|Turkish||tr|
|Tsonga||ts|
|Tatar|, ,|tt|
|Twi||tw|
|Tahitian||ty|
|Uighur, Uyghur|,|ug|
|Ukrainian||uk|
|Urdu||ur|
|Uzbek|, ,|uz|
|Venda||ve|
|Vietnamese||vi|
|Volapük||vo|
|Walloon||wa|
|Welsh||cy|
|Wolof||wo|
|Western Frisian||fy|
|Xhosa||xh|
|Yiddish||yi|
|Yoruba||yo|
|Zhuang, Chuang|, Saw cuengh|za|
|Zulu||zu|

## References

la:ISO 639#ISO 639-1
nl:ISO 639#ISO 639-1