ISO 639-1 Language Code


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Introduction

  • The ISO 639-1 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages
  • The ISO 639-1 codes cover the world’s major languages
  • These codes are a useful international and formal shorthand for indicating languages
  • Two-letter codes
  • Used to multilingual websites, aka Internationalization (i18n)
  • i18n language codes {.marker-round}

Multi-format of 639-1 codes

List of ISO 639-1 codes

Full codes

639-1 code ISO language name Native name (endonym)
aa Afar Afaraf
ab Abkhaz аҧсуа бызшәа
ae Avestan avesta
af Afrikaans Afrikaans
ak Akan Akan
am Amharic አማርኛ
an Aragonese aragonés
ar Arabic اللغة العربية
as Assamese অসমীয়া
av Avaric авар мацӀ
ay Aymara aymar aru
az Azerbaijani azərbaycan dili
ba Bashkir башҡорт теле
be Belarusian беларуская мова
bg Bulgarian български език
bh Bihari भोजपुरी
bi Bislama Bislama
bm Bambara bamanankan
bn Bengali বাংলা
bo Tibetan བོད་ཡིག
br Breton brezhoneg
bs Bosnian bosanski jezik
ca Catalan Català
ce Chechen нохчийн мотт
ch Chamorro Chamoru
co Corsican corsu
cr Cree ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ
cs Czech čeština
cu Old Church Slavonic ѩзыкъ словѣньскъ
cv Chuvash чӑваш чӗлхи
cy Welsh Cymraeg
da Danish dansk
de German Deutsch
dv Divehi Dhivehi
dz Dzongkha རྫོང་ཁ
ee Ewe Eʋegbe
el Greek Ελληνικά
en English English
eo Esperanto Esperanto
es Spanish Español
et Estonian eesti
eu Basque euskara
fa Persian فارسی
ff Fula Fulfulde
fi Finnish suomi
fj Fijian Vakaviti
fo Faroese føroyskt
fr French Français
fy Western Frisian Frysk
ga Irish Gaeilge
gd Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig
gl Galician galego
gu Gujarati ગુજરાતી
gv Manx Gaelg
ha Hausa هَوُسَ
he Hebrew עברית
hi Hindi हिन्दी
ho Hiri Motu Hiri Motu
hr Croatian Hrvatski
ht Haitian Kreyòl ayisyen
hu Hungarian magyar
hy Armenian Հայերեն
hz Herero Otjiherero
ia Interlingua Interlingua
id Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia
ie Interlingue Interlingue
ig Igbo Asụsụ Igbo
ii Nuosu ꆈꌠ꒿ Nuosuhxop
ik Inupiaq Iñupiaq
io Ido Ido
is Icelandic Íslenska
it Italian Italiano
iu Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
ja Japanese 日本語
jv Javanese basa Jawa
ka Georgian ქართული
kg Kongo Kikongo
ki Kikuyu Gĩkũyũ
kj Kwanyama Kuanyama
kk Kazakh қазақ тілі
kl Kalaallisut kalaallisut
km Khmer ខេមរភាសា
kn Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ
ko Korean 한국어
kr Kanuri Kanuri
ks Kashmiri कश्मीरी
ku Kurdish Kurdî
kv Komi коми кыв
kw Cornish Kernewek
ky Kyrgyz Кыргызча
la Latin latine
lb Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch
lg Ganda Luganda
li Limburgish Limburgs
ln Lingala Lingála
lo Lao ພາສາ
lt Lithuanian lietuvių kalba
lu Luba-Katanga Tshiluba
lv Latvian latviešu valoda
mg Malagasy fiteny malagasy
mh Marshallese Kajin M̧ajeļ
mi Māori te reo Māori
mk Macedonian македонски јазик
ml Malayalam മലയാളം
mn Mongolian Монгол хэл
mr Marathi मराठी
ms Malay Bahasa Malaysia
mt Maltese Malti
my Burmese ဗမာစာ
na Nauru Ekakairũ Naoero
nb Norwegian Bokmål Norsk bokmål
nd Northern Ndebele isiNdebele
ne Nepali नेपाली
ng Ndonga Owambo
nl Dutch Nederlands
nn Norwegian Nynorsk Norsk nynorsk
no Norwegian Norsk
nr Southern Ndebele isiNdebele
nv Navajo Diné bizaad
ny Chichewa chiCheŵa
oc Occitan occitan
oj Ojibwe ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ
om Oromo Afaan Oromoo
or Oriya ଓଡ଼ିଆ
os Ossetian ирон æвзаг
pa Panjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
pi Pāli पाऴि
pl Polish Polski
ps Pashto پښتو
pt Portuguese Português
qu Quechua Runa Simi
rm Romansh rumantsch grischun
rn Kirundi Ikirundi
ro Romanian Română
ru Russian Русский
rw Kinyarwanda Ikinyarwanda
sa Sanskrit संस्कृतम्
sc Sardinian sardu
sd Sindhi सिन्धी
se Northern Sami Davvisámegiella
sg Sango yângâ tî sängö
si Sinhala සිංහල
sk Slovak slovenčina
sl Slovenian slovenščina
sn Shona chiShona
so Somali Soomaaliga
sq Albanian Shqip
sr Serbian српски језик
ss Swati SiSwati
st Southern Sotho Sesotho
su Sundanese Basa Sunda
sv Swedish Svenska
sw Swahili Kiswahili
ta Tamil தமிழ்
te Telugu తెలుగు
tg Tajik тоҷикӣ
th Thai ไทย
ti Tigrinya ትግርኛ
tk Turkmen Türkmen
tl Tagalog Wikang Tagalog
tn Tswana Setswana
to Tonga faka Tonga
tr Turkish Türkçe
ts Tsonga Xitsonga
tt Tatar татар теле
tw Twi Twi
ty Tahitian Reo Tahiti
ug Uyghur ئۇيغۇرچە‎
uk Ukrainian Українська
ur Urdu اردو
uz Uzbek Ўзбек
ve Venda Tshivenḓa
vi Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
vo Volapük Volapük
wa Walloon walon
wo Wolof Wollof
xh Xhosa isiXhosa
yi Yiddish ייִדיש
yo Yoruba Yorùbá
za Zhuang Saɯ cueŋƅ
zh Chinese 中文
zu Zulu isiZulu

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