List of ISO 639-1 codes

ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a two-letter (639-1) and three-letter (639-2 and 639-3), lowercase abbreviation, amended in later versions of the nomenclature. The system is highly useful for linguists and ethnographers to categorize the languages spoken on a regional basis, and to compute analysis in the field of lexicostatistics. ISO 639 has five code lists.

Partial ISO 639 table

This table lists all of:

• ISO 639-1: two-letter codes, one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage

And some of:

• ISO 639-2/T: three-letter codes, for the same languages as 639-1
• ISO 639-2/B: three-letter codes, mostly the same as 639-2/T, but with some codes derived from English names rather than native names of languages (in the following table, these differing codes are highlighted in boldface)
• ISO 639-3: three-letter codes, the same as 639-2/T for languages, but with distinct codes for each variety of an ISO 639 macrolanguage

Note: Colors on the leftmost column represent the language family mentioned in second column.

	Language family	Language name	Native name	639‑1	639‑2/T	639‑2/B	639‑3	639‑6	Notes
	Northwest Caucasian	Abkhaz	аҧсуа бызшәа, аҧсшәа	ab	abk	abk	abk	abks
	Afro-Asiatic	Afar	Afaraf	aa	aar	aar	aar	aars
	Indo-European	Afrikaans	Afrikaans	af	afr	afr	afr	afrs
	Niger–Congo	Akan	Akan	ak	aka	aka	aka + 2		macrolanguage, Twi is [tw/twi], Fanti is [fat]
	Indo-European	Albanian	Shqip	sq	sqi	alb	sqi + 4		macrolanguage, "Albanian Phylozone" in 639-6
	Afro-Asiatic	Amharic	አማርኛ	am	amh	amh	amh
	Afro-Asiatic	Arabic	العربية	ar	ara	ara	ara + 30		macrolanguage, Standard Arabic is [arb]
	Indo-European	Aragonese	aragonés	an	arg	arg	arg
	Indo-European	Armenian	Հայերեն	hy	hye	arm	hye
	Indo-European	Assamese	অসমীয়া	as	asm	asm	asm
	Northeast Caucasian	Avaric	авар мацӀ, магӀарул мацӀ	av	ava	ava	ava
	Indo-European	Avestan	avesta	ae	ave	ave	ave		ancient
	Aymaran	Aymara	aymar aru	ay	aym	aym	aym + 2		macrolanguage
	Turkic	Azerbaijani	azərbaycan dili	az	aze	aze	aze + 2		macrolanguage
	Niger–Congo	Bambara	bamanankan	bm	bam	bam	bam
	Turkic	Bashkir	башҡорт теле	ba	bak	bak	bak
	Language isolate	Basque	euskara, euskera	eu	eus	baq	eus
	Indo-European	Belarusian	беларуская мова	be	bel	bel	bel
	Indo-European	Bengali, Bangla	বাংলা	bn	ben	ben	ben
	Indo-European	Bihari	भोजपुरी	bh	bih	bih			Collective language code for Bhojpuri, Magahi, and Maithili
	Creole	Bislama	Bislama	bi	bis	bis	bis
	Indo-European	Bosnian	bosanski jezik	bs	bos	bos	bos	boss
	Indo-European	Breton	brezhoneg	br	bre	bre	bre
	Indo-European	Bulgarian	български език	bg	bul	bul	bul	buls
	Sino-Tibetan	Burmese	ဗမာစာ	my	mya	bur	mya
	Indo-European	Catalan	català	ca	cat	cat	cat
	Austronesian	Chamorro	Chamoru	ch	cha	cha	cha
	Northeast Caucasian	Chechen	нохчийн мотт	ce	che	che	che
	Niger–Congo	Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja	chiCheŵa, chinyanja	ny	nya	nya	nya
	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese	中文 (Zhōngwén), 汉语, 漢語	zh	zho	chi	zho + 13		macrolanguage
	Turkic	Chuvash	чӑваш чӗлхи	cv	chv	chv	chv
	Indo-European	Cornish	Kernewek	kw	cor	cor	cor
	Indo-European	Corsican	corsu, lingua corsa	co	cos	cos	cos
	Algonquian	Cree	ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ	cr	cre	cre	cre + 6		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Croatian	hrvatski jezik	hr	hrv	hrv	hrv
	Indo-European	Czech	čeština, český jazyk	cs	ces	cze	ces
	Indo-European	Danish	dansk	da	dan	dan	dan
	Indo-European	Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian	ދިވެހި	dv	div	div	div
	Indo-European	Dutch	Nederlands, Vlaams	nl	nld	dut	nld
	Sino-Tibetan	Dzongkha	རྫོང་ཁ	dz	dzo	dzo	dzo
	Indo-European	English	English	en	eng	eng	eng	engs
	Constructed	Esperanto	Esperanto	eo	epo	epo	epo		constructed, initiated from L.L. Zamenhof, 1887
	Constructed	Hylian	Hylian	hl	hyl	hyl	hyl		constructed, initiated from Sarinilli Morian, 1999 and Kasuto
	Uralic	Estonian	eesti, eesti keel	et	est	est	est + 2		macrolanguage
	Niger–Congo	Ewe	Eʋegbe	ee	ewe	ewe	ewe
	Indo-European	Faroese	føroyskt	fo	fao	fao	fao
	Austronesian	Fijian	vosa Vakaviti	fj	fij	fij	fij
	Uralic	Finnish	suomi, suomen kieli	fi	fin	fin	fin
	Indo-European	French	français, langue française	fr	fra	fre	fra	fras
	Niger–Congo	Fula, Fulah, Pulaar, Pular	Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular	ff	ful	ful	ful + 9		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Galician	gallego	gl	glg	glg	glg
	South Caucasian	Georgian	ქართული	ka	kat	geo	kat
	Indo-European	German	Deutsch	de	deu	ger	deu	deus
	Indo-European	Greek (modern)	ελληνικά	el	ell	gre	ell	ells
	Tupian	Guaraní	Avañe'ẽ	gn	grn	grn	grn + 5		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી	gu	guj	guj	guj
	Creole	Haitian, Haitian Creole	Kreyòl ayisyen	ht	hat	hat	hat
	Afro-Asiatic	Hausa	(Hausa) هَوُسَ	ha	hau	hau	hau
	Afro-Asiatic	Hebrew (modern)	עברית	he	heb	heb	heb
	Niger–Congo	Herero	Otjiherero	hz	her	her	her
	Indo-European	Hindi	हिन्दी, हिंदी	hi	hin	hin	hin	hins
	Austronesian	Hiri Motu	Hiri Motu	ho	hmo	hmo	hmo
	Uralic	Hungarian	magyar	hu	hun	hun	hun
	Constructed	Interlingua	Interlingua	ia	ina	ina	ina		constructed by International Auxiliary Language Association
	Austronesian	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	id	ind	ind	ind		Covered by macrolanguage [ms/msa]
	Constructed	Interlingue	Originally called Occidental; then Interlingue after WWII	ie	ile	ile	ile		constructed by Edgar de Wahl, first published in 1922
	Indo-European	Irish	Gaeilge	ga	gle	gle	gle
	Niger–Congo	Igbo	Asụsụ Igbo	ig	ibo	ibo	ibo
	Eskimo–Aleut	Inupiaq	Iñupiaq, Iñupiatun	ik	ipk	ipk	ipk + 2		macrolanguage
	Constructed	Ido	Ido	io	ido	ido	ido	idos	constructed by De Beaufront, 1907, as variation of Esperanto
	Indo-European	Icelandic	Íslenska	is	isl	ice	isl
	Indo-European	Italian	Italiano	it	ita	ita	ita	itas
	Eskimo–Aleut	Inuktitut	ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ	iu	iku	iku	iku + 2		macrolanguage
	Japonic	Japanese	日本語 (にほんご)	ja	jpn	jpn	jpn
	Austronesian	Javanese	ꦧꦱꦗꦮ, Basa Jawa	jv	jav	jav	jav
	Eskimo–Aleut	Kalaallisut, Greenlandic	kalaallisut, kalaallit oqaasii	kl	kal	kal	kal
	Dravidian	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ	kn	kan	kan	kan
	Nilo-Saharan	Kanuri	Kanuri	kr	kau	kau	kau + 3		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Kashmiri	कश्मीरी, كشميري‎	ks	kas	kas	kas
	Turkic	Kazakh	қазақ тілі	kk	kaz	kaz	kaz
	Austroasiatic	Khmer	ខ្មែរ, ខេមរភាសា, ភាសាខ្មែរ	km	khm	khm	khm		a.k.a. Cambodian
	Niger–Congo	Kikuyu, Gikuyu	Gĩkũyũ	ki	kik	kik	kik
	Niger–Congo	Kinyarwanda	Ikinyarwanda	rw	kin	kin	kin
	Turkic	Kyrgyz	Кыргызча, Кыргыз тили	ky	kir	kir	kir
	Uralic	Komi	коми кыв	kv	kom	kom	kom + 2		macrolanguage
	Niger–Congo	Kongo	Kikongo	kg	kon	kon	kon + 3		macrolanguage
	Koreanic	Korean	한국어	ko	kor	kor	kor
	Indo-European	Kurdish	Kurdî, كوردی‎	ku	kur	kur	kur + 3		macrolanguage
	Niger–Congo	Kwanyama, Kuanyama	Kuanyama	kj	kua	kua	kua
	Indo-European	Latin	latine, lingua latina	la	lat	lat	lat	lats	ancient
	Indo-European	Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch	Lëtzebuergesch	lb	ltz	ltz	ltz
	Niger–Congo	Ganda	Luganda	lg	lug	lug	lug
	Indo-European	Limburgish, Limburgan, Limburger	Limburgs	li	lim	lim	lim
	Niger–Congo	Lingala	Lingála	ln	lin	lin	lin
	Tai–Kadai	Lao	ພາສາລາວ	lo	lao	lao	lao
	Indo-European	Lithuanian	lietuvių kalba	lt	lit	lit	lit
	Niger–Congo	Luba-Katanga	Tshiluba	lu	lub	lub	lub
	Indo-European	Latvian	Latviešu Valoda	lv	lav	lav	lav + 2		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Manx	Gaelg, Gailck	gv	glv	glv	glv
	Indo-European	Macedonian	македонски јазик	mk	mkd	mac	mkd
	Austronesian	Malagasy	fiteny malagasy	mg	mlg	mlg	mlg + 10		macrolanguage
	Austronesian	Malay	Bahasa Melayu, بهاس ملايو‎	ms	msa	may	msa + 13		macrolanguage, Standard Malay is [zsm], Indonesian is [id/ind]
	Dravidian	Malayalam	മലയാളം	ml	mal	mal	mal
	Afro-Asiatic	Maltese	Malti	mt	mlt	mlt	mlt
	Austronesian	Māori	te reo Māori	mi	mri	mao	mri
	Indo-European	Marathi (Marāṭhī)	मराठी	mr	mar	mar	mar
	Austronesian	Marshallese	Kajin M̧ajeļ	mh	mah	mah	mah
	Mongolic	Mongolian	Монгол хэл	mn	mon	mon	mon + 2		macrolanguage
	Austronesian	Nauruan	Dorerin Naoero	na	nau	nau	nau
	Dené–Yeniseian	Navajo, Navaho	Diné bizaad	nv	nav	nav	nav
	Niger–Congo	Northern Ndebele	isiNdebele	nd	nde	nde	nde
	Indo-European	Nepali	नेपाली	ne	nep	nep	nep
	Niger–Congo	Ndonga	Owambo	ng	ndo	ndo	ndo
	Indo-European	Norwegian Bokmål	Norsk Bokmål	nb	nob	nob	nob		Covered by macrolanguage [no/nor]
	Indo-European	Norwegian Nynorsk	Norsk Nynorsk	nn	nno	nno	nno		Covered by macrolanguage [no/nor]
	Indo-European	Norwegian	Norsk	no	nor	nor	nor + 2		macrolanguage, Bokmål is [nb/nob], Nynorsk is [nn/nno]
	Sino-Tibetan	Nuosu	ꆈꌠ꒿ Nuosuhxop	ii	iii	iii	iii		Standard form of Yi languages
	Niger–Congo	Southern Ndebele	isiNdebele	nr	nbl	nbl	nbl
	Indo-European	Occitan	occitan, lenga d'òc	oc	oci	oci	oci
	Algonquian	Ojibwe, Ojibwa	ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ	oj	oji	oji	oji + 7		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Old Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian	ѩзыкъ словѣньскъ	cu	chu	chu	chu		ancient, in use by Orthodox Church
	Afro-Asiatic	Oromo	Afaan Oromoo	om	orm	orm	orm + 4		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ	or	ori	ori	ori
	Indo-European	Ossetian, Ossetic	ирон æвзаг	os	oss	oss	oss
	Indo-European	(Eastern) Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	pa	pan	pan	pan
	Indo-European	Pāli	पाऴि	pi	pli	pli	pli		ancient
	Indo-European	Persian (Farsi)	فارسی	fa	fas	per	fas + 2		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Polish	Język Polski, Polszczyzna	pl	pol	pol	pol	pols
	Indo-European	Pashto, Pushto	پښتو	ps	pus	pus	pus + 3		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Portuguese	Português	pt	por	por	por
	Quechuan	Quechua	Runa Simi, Kichwa	qu	que	que	que + 44		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Romansh	Rumantsch Grischun	rm	roh	roh	roh
	Niger–Congo	Kirundi	Ikirundi	rn	run	run	run
	Indo-European	Romanian	Română	ro	ron	rum	ron		The identifiers mo and mol are deprecated, leaving ro and ron (639-2/T) and rum (639-2/B) the current language identifiers to be used for the variant of the Romanian language also known as Moldavian and Moldovan in English and moldave in French. The identifiers mo and mol will not be assigned to different items, and recordings using these identifiers will not be invalid.
	Indo-European	Russian	Русский	ru	rus	rus	rus
	Indo-European	Sanskrit (Saṁskṛta)	संस्कृतम्	sa	san	san	san		ancient, still spoken
	Indo-European	Sardinian	sardu	sc	srd	srd	srd + 4		macrolanguage
	Indo-European	Sindhi	सिन्धी, سنڌي، سندھی‎	sd	snd	snd	snd
	Uralic	Northern Sami	Davvisámegiella	se	sme	sme	sme
	Austronesian	Samoan	gagana fa'a Samoa	sm	smo	smo	smo
	Creole	Sango	yângâ tî sängö	sg	sag	sag	sag
	Indo-European	Serbian	српски језик	sr	srp	srp	srp		The ISO 639-2/T code srp deprecated the ISO 639-2/B code scc
	Indo-European	Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic	Gàidhlig	gd	gla	gla	gla
	Niger–Congo	Shona	chiShona	sn	sna	sna	sna
	Indo-European	Sinhalese, Sinhala	සිංහල	si	sin	sin	sin
	Indo-European	Slovak	Slovenčina, Slovenský Jazyk	sk	slk	slo	slk
	Indo-European	Slovene	Slovenski Jezik, Slovenščina	sl	slv	slv	slv
	Afro-Asiatic	Somali	Soomaaliga, af Soomaali	so	som	som	som
	Niger–Congo	Southern Sotho	Sesotho	st	sot	sot	sot
	Indo-European	Spanish	Español	es	spa	spa	spa
	Austronesian	Sundanese	Basa Sunda	su	sun	sun	sun
	Niger–Congo	Swahili	Kiswahili	sw	swa	swa	swa + 2		macrolanguage
	Niger–Congo	Swati	SiSwati	ss	ssw	ssw	ssw
	Indo-European	Swedish	Svenska	sv	swe	swe	swe
	Dravidian	Tamil	தமிழ்	ta	tam	tam	tam		Ancient, Still spoken
	Dravidian	Telugu	తెలుగు	te	tel	tel	tel
	Indo-European	Tajik	тоҷикӣ, toçikī, تاجیکی‎	tg	tgk	tgk	tgk
	Tai–Kadai	Thai	ไทย	th	tha	tha	tha
	Afro-Asiatic	Tigrinya	ትግርኛ	ti	tir	tir	tir
	Sino-Tibetan	Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central	བོད་ཡིག	bo	bod	tib	bod
	Turkic	Turkmen	Türkmen, Түркмен	tk	tuk	tuk	tuk
	Austronesian	Tagalog	Wikang Tagalog	tl	tgl	tgl	tgl		Note: Filipino (Pilipino) has the code [fil]
	Niger–Congo	Tswana	Setswana	tn	tsn	tsn	tsn
	Austronesian	Tonga (Tonga Islands)	Faka Tonga	to	ton	ton	ton
	Turkic	Turkish	Türkçe	tr	tur	tur	tur
	Niger–Congo	Tsonga	Xitsonga	ts	tso	tso	tso
	Turkic	Tatar	татар теле, tatar tele	tt	tat	tat	tat
	Niger–Congo	Twi	Twi	tw	twi	twi	twi		Covered by macrolanguage [ak/aka]
	Austronesian	Tahitian	Reo Tahiti	ty	tah	tah	tah		One of the Reo Mā`ohi (languages of French Polynesia)
	Turkic	Uyghur	ئۇيغۇرچە‎, Uyghurche	ug	uig	uig	uig
	Indo-European	Ukrainian	Українська	uk	ukr	ukr	ukr
	Indo-European	Urdu	اردو	ur	urd	urd	urd
	Turkic	Uzbek	Oʻzbek, Ўзбек, أۇزبېك‎	uz	uzb	uzb	uzb + 2		macrolanguage
	Niger–Congo	Venda	Tshivenḓa	ve	ven	ven	ven
	Austroasiatic	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi	vie	vie	vie
	Constructed	Volapük	Volapük	vo	vol	vol	vol		constructed
	Indo-European	Walloon	Walon	wa	wln	wln	wln
	Indo-European	Welsh	Cymraeg	cy	cym	wel	cym
	Niger–Congo	Wolof	Wollof	wo	wol	wol	wol
	Indo-European	Western Frisian	Frysk	fy	fry	fry	fry
	Niger–Congo	Xhosa	isiXhosa	xh	xho	xho	xho
	Indo-European	Yiddish	ייִדיש	yi	yid	yid	yid + 2		macrolanguage
	Niger–Congo	Yoruba	Yorùbá	yo	yor	yor	yor
	Tai–Kadai	Zhuang, Chuang	Saɯ cueŋƅ, Saw cuengh	za	zha	zha	zha + 16		macrolanguage
	Niger–Congo	Zulu	isiZulu	zu	zul	zul	zul

See also

• Unicode
• Lists of ISO 639 codes

External links

• Official ISO 639 list
• meta:Template:List of language names ordered by code