Discontinued codes are identified by a hyphen preceding
the first letter in the code string.
| code |
language |
| aar |
Afar |
| abk |
Abkhaz |
| ace |
Achinese |
| ach |
Acoli |
| ada |
Adangme |
| ady |
Adygei |
| afa |
Afroasiatic (Other) |
| afh |
Afrihili (Artificial language) |
| afr |
Afrikaans |
| ain |
Ainu |
| -ajm |
Aljamía |
| aka |
Akan |
| akk |
Akkadian |
| alb |
Albanian |
| ale |
Aleut |
| alg |
Algonquian (Other) |
| alt |
Altai |
| amh |
Amharic |
| ang |
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
| anp |
Angika |
| apa |
Apache languages |
| ara |
Arabic |
| arc |
Aramaic |
| arg |
Aragonese |
| arm |
Armenian |
| arn |
Mapuche |
| arp |
Arapaho |
| art |
Artificial (Other) |
| arw |
Arawak |
| asm |
Assamese |
| ast |
Bable |
| ath |
Athapascan (Other) |
| aus |
Australian languages |
| ava |
Avaric |
| ave |
Avestan |
| awa |
Awadhi |
| aym |
Aymara |
| aze |
Azerbaijani |
| bad |
Banda languages |
| bai |
Bamileke languages |
| bak |
Bashkir |
| bal |
Baluchi |
| bam |
Bambara |
| ban |
Balinese |
| baq |
Basque |
| bas |
Basa |
| bat |
Baltic (Other) |
| bej |
Beja |
| bel |
Belarusian |
| bem |
Bemba |
| ben |
Bengali |
| ber |
Berber (Other) |
| bho |
Bhojpuri |
| bih |
Bihari (Other) |
| bik |
Bikol |
| bin |
Edo |
| bis |
Bislama |
| bla |
Siksika |
| bnt |
Bantu (Other) |
| bos |
Bosnian |
| bra |
Braj |
| bre |
Breton |
| btk |
Batak |
| bua |
Buriat |
| bug |
Bugis |
| bul |
Bulgarian |
| bur |
Burmese |
| byn |
Bilin |
| cad |
Caddo |
| cai |
Central American Indian (Other) |
| -cam |
Khmer |
| car |
Carib |
| cat |
Catalan |
| cau |
Caucasian (Other) |
| ceb |
Cebuano |
| cel |
Celtic (Other) |
| cha |
Chamorro |
| chb |
Chibcha |
| che |
Chechen |
| chg |
Chagatai |
| chi |
Chinese |
| chk |
Chuukese |
| chm |
Mari |
| chn |
Chinook jargon |
| cho |
Choctaw |
| chp |
Chipewyan |
| chr |
Cherokee |
| chu |
Church Slavic |
| chv |
Chuvash |
| chy |
Cheyenne |
| cmc |
Chamic languages |
| 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 |
| crp |
Creoles and Pidgins (Other) |
| csb |
Kashubian |
| cus |
Cushitic (Other) |
| cze |
Czech |
| dak |
Dakota |
| dan |
Danish |
| dar |
Dargwa |
| day |
Dayak |
| del |
Delaware |
| den |
Slavey |
| dgr |
Dogrib |
| din |
Dinka |
| div |
Divehi |
| doi |
Dogri |
| dra |
Dravidian (Other) |
| dsb |
Lower Sorbian |
| dua |
Duala |
| dum |
Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) |
| dut |
Dutch |
| dyu |
Dyula |
| dzo |
Dzongkha |
| efi |
Efik |
| egy |
Egyptian |
| eka |
Ekajuk |
| elx |
Elamite |
| eng |
English |
| enm |
English, Middle (1100-1500) |
| epo |
Esperanto |
| -esk |
Eskimo languages |
| -esp |
Esperanto |
| est |
Estonian |
| -eth |
Ethiopic |
| ewe |
Ewe |
| ewo |
Ewondo |
| fan |
Fang |
| fao |
Faroese |
| -far |
Faroese |
| fat |
Fanti |
| fij |
Fijian |
| fil |
Filipino |
| fin |
Finnish |
| fiu |
Finno-Ugrian (Other) |
| fon |
Fon |
| fre |
French |
| -fri |
Frisian |
| frm |
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) |
| fro |
French, Old (ca. 842-1300) |
| frr |
North Frisian |
| frs |
East Frisian |
| fry |
Frisian |
| ful |
Fula |
| fur |
Friulian |
| gaa |
Gã |
| -gae |
Scottish Gaelix |
| -gag |
Galician |
| -gal |
Oromo |
| gay |
Gayo |
| gba |
Gbaya |
| gem |
Germanic (Other) |
| geo |
Georgian |
| ger |
German |
| gez |
Ethiopic |
| gil |
Gilbertese |
| gla |
Scottish Gaelic |
| gle |
Irish |
| glg |
Galician |
| 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 (to 1453) |
| gre |
Greek, Modern (1453-) |
| grn |
Guarani |
| gsw |
Swiss German |
| -gua |
Guarani |
| guj |
Gujarati |
| gwi |
Gwich'in |
| hai |
Haida |
| hat |
Haitian French Creole |
| hau |
Hausa |
| haw |
Hawaiian |
| heb |
Hebrew |
| her |
Herero |
| hil |
Hiligaynon |
| him |
Western Pahari languages |
| hin |
Hindi |
| hit |
Hittite |
| hmn |
Hmong |
| hmo |
Hiri Motu |
| hrv |
Croatian |
| hsb |
Upper Sorbian |
| hun |
Hungarian |
| hup |
Hupa |
| iba |
Iban |
| ibo |
Igbo |
| ice |
Icelandic |
| ido |
Ido |
| iii |
Sichuan Yi |
| ijo |
Ijo |
| iku |
Inuktitut |
| ile |
Interlingue |
| ilo |
Iloko |
| ina |
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
Association) |
| inc |
Indic (Other) |
| ind |
Indonesian |
| ine |
Indo-European (Other) |
| inh |
Ingush |
| -int |
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
Association) |
| ipk |
Inupiaq |
| ira |
Iranian (Other) |
| -iri |
Irish |
| iro |
Iroquoian (Other) |
| ita |
Italian |
| jav |
Javanese |
| jbo |
Lojban (Artificial language) |
| jpn |
Japanese |
| jpr |
Judeo-Persian |
| jrb |
Judeo-Arabic |
| kaa |
Kara-Kalpak |
| kab |
Kabyle |
| kac |
Kachin |
| kal |
Kalâtdlisut |
| kam |
Kamba |
| kan |
Kannada |
| kar |
Karen languages |
| kas |
Kashmiri |
| kau |
Kanuri |
| kaw |
Kawi |
| kaz |
Kazakh |
| kbd |
Kabardian |
| kha |
Khasi |
| khi |
Khoisan (Other) |
| khm |
Khmer |
| kho |
Khotanese |
| kik |
Kikuyu |
| kin |
Kinyarwanda |
| kir |
Kyrgyz |
| kmb |
Kimbundu |
| kok |
Konkani |
| kom |
Komi |
| kon |
Kongo |
| kor |
Korean |
| kos |
Kosraean |
| kpe |
Kpelle |
| krc |
Karachay-Balkar |
| krl |
Karelian |
| kro |
Kru (Other) |
| kru |
Kurukh |
| kua |
Kuanyama |
| kum |
Kumyk |
| kur |
Kurdish |
| -kus |
Kusaie |
| kut |
Kootenai |
| lad |
Ladino |
| lah |
Lahndā |
| lam |
Lamba (Zambia and Congo) |
| -lan |
Occitan (post 1500) |
| lao |
Lao |
| -lap |
Sami |
| lat |
Latin |
| lav |
Latvian |
| lez |
Lezgian |
| lim |
Limburgish |
| lin |
Lingala |
| lit |
Lithuanian |
| lol |
Mongo-Nkundu |
| loz |
Lozi |
| ltz |
Luxembourgish |
| lua |
Luba-Lulua |
| lub |
Luba-Katanga |
| lug |
Ganda |
| lui |
Luiseño |
| lun |
Lunda |
| luo |
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) |
| lus |
Lushai |
| mac |
Macedonian |
| mad |
Madurese |
| mag |
Magahi |
| mah |
Marshallese |
| mai |
Maithili |
| mak |
Makasar |
| mal |
Malayalam |
| man |
Mandingo |
| mao |
Maori |
| map |
Austronesian (Other) |
| mar |
Marathi |
| mas |
Maasai |
| -max |
Manx |
| may |
Malay |
| mdf |
Moksha |
| mdr |
Mandar |
| men |
Mende |
| mga |
Irish, Middle (ca. 1100-1550) |
| mic |
Micmac |
| min |
Minangkabau |
| mis |
Miscellaneous languages |
| mkh |
Mon-Khmer (Other) |
| -mla |
Malagasy |
| mlg |
Malagasy |
| mlt |
Maltese |
| mnc |
Manchu |
| mni |
Manipuri |
| mno |
Manobo languages |
| moh |
Mohawk |
| -mol |
Moldavian |
| mon |
Mongolian |
| mos |
Mooré |
| mul |
Multiple languages |
| mun |
Munda (Other) |
| mus |
Creek |
| mwl |
Mirandese |
| mwr |
Marwari |
| myn |
Mayan languages |
| myv |
Erzya |
| nah |
Nahuatl |
| nai |
North American Indian (Other) |
| nap |
Neapolitan Italian |
| nau |
Nauru |
| nav |
Navajo |
| nbl |
Ndebele (South Africa) |
| nde |
Ndebele (Zimbabwe) |
| ndo |
Ndonga |
| nds |
Low German |
| nep |
Nepali |
| new |
Newari |
| nia |
Nias |
| nic |
Niger-Kordofanian (Other) |
| niu |
Niuean |
| nno |
Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
| nob |
Norwegian (Bokmål) |
| nog |
Nogai |
| non |
Old Norse |
| nor |
Norwegian |
| nqo |
N'Ko |
| nso |
Northern Sotho |
| nub |
Nubian languages |
| nwc |
Newari, Old |
| nya |
Nyanja |
| nym |
Nyamwezi |
| nyn |
Nyankole |
| nyo |
Nyoro |
| nzi |
Nzima |
| oci |
Occitan (post-1500) |
| oji |
Ojibwa |
| ori |
Oriya |
| orm |
Oromo |
| osa |
Osage |
| oss |
Ossetic |
| ota |
Turkish, Ottoman |
| oto |
Otomian languages |
| paa |
Papuan (Other) |
| pag |
Pangasinan |
| pal |
Pahlavi |
| pam |
Pampanga |
| pan |
Panjabi |
| pap |
Papiamento |
| pau |
Palauan |
| peo |
Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.) |
| per |
Persian |
| phi |
Philippine (Other) |
| phn |
Phoenician |
| pli |
Pali |
| pol |
Polish |
| pon |
Pohnpeian |
| por |
Portuguese |
| pra |
Prakrit languages |
| pro |
Provençal (to 1500) |
| pus |
Pushto |
| que |
Quechua |
| raj |
Rajasthani |
| rap |
Rapanui |
| rar |
Rarotongan |
| roa |
Romance (Other) |
| roh |
Raeto-Romance |
| rom |
Romani |
| rum |
Romanian |
| run |
Rundi |
| rup |
Aromanian |
| rus |
Russian |
| sad |
Sandawe |
| sag |
Sango (Ubangi Creole) |
| sah |
Yakut |
| sai |
South American Indian (Other) |
| sal |
Salishan languages |
| sam |
Samaritan Aramaic |
| san |
Sanskrit |
| -sao |
Samoan |
| sas |
Sasak |
| sat |
Santali |
| -scc |
Serbian |
| scn |
Sicilian Italian |
| sco |
Scots |
| -scr |
Croatian |
| sel |
Selkup |
| sem |
Semitic (Other) |
| sga |
Irish, Old (to 1100) |
| sgn |
Sign languages |
| shn |
Shan |
| -sho |
Shona |
| sid |
Sidamo |
| sin |
Sinhalese |
| sio |
Siouan (Other) |
| sit |
Sino-Tibetan (Other) |
| sla |
Slavic (Other) |
| slo |
Slovak |
| slv |
Slovenian |
| sma |
Southern Sami |
| sme |
Northern Sami |
| smi |
Sami |
| smj |
Lule Sami |
| smn |
Inari Sami |
| smo |
Samoan |
| sms |
Skolt Sami |
| sna |
Shona |
| snd |
Sindhi |
| -snh |
Sinhalese |
| snk |
Soninke |
| sog |
Sogdian |
| som |
Somali |
| son |
Songhai |
| sot |
Sotho |
| spa |
Spanish |
| srd |
Sardinian |
| srn |
Sranan |
| srp |
Serbian |
| srr |
Serer |
| ssa |
Nilo-Saharan (Other) |
| -sso |
Sotho |
| ssw |
Swazi |
| suk |
Sukuma |
| sun |
Sundanese |
| sus |
Susu |
| sux |
Sumerian |
| swa |
Swahili |
| swe |
Swedish |
| -swz |
Swazi |
| syc |
Syriac |
| syr |
Syriac, Modern |
| -tag |
Tagalog |
| tah |
Tahitian |
| tai |
Tai (Other) |
| -taj |
Tajik |
| tam |
Tamil |
| -tar |
Tatar |
| tat |
Tatar |
| tel |
Telugu |
| tem |
Temne |
| ter |
Terena |
| tet |
Tetum |
| tgk |
Tajik |
| tgl |
Tagalog |
| tha |
Thai |
| tib |
Tibetan |
| tig |
Tigré |
| tir |
Tigrinya |
| tiv |
Tiv |
| tkl |
Tokelauan |
| tlh |
Klingon (Artificial language) |
| tli |
Tlingit |
| tmh |
Tamashek |
| tog |
Tonga (Nyasa) |
| ton |
Tongan |
| tpi |
Tok Pisin |
| -tru |
Truk |
| tsi |
Tsimshian |
| tsn |
Tswana |
| tso |
Tsonga |
| -tsw |
Tswana |
| tuk |
Turkmen |
| tum |
Tumbuka |
| tup |
Tupi languages |
| tur |
Turkish |
| tut |
Altaic (Other) |
| tvl |
Tuvaluan |
| twi |
Twi |
| tyv |
Tuvinian |
| udm |
Udmurt |
| uga |
Ugaritic |
| uig |
Uighur |
| ukr |
Ukrainian |
| umb |
Umbundu |
| und |
Undetermined |
| urd |
Urdu |
| uzb |
Uzbek |
| vai |
Vai |
| ven |
Venda |
| vie |
Vietnamese |
| vol |
Volapük |
| vot |
Votic |
| wak |
Wakashan languages |
| wal |
Wolayta |
| war |
Waray |
| was |
Washoe |
| wel |
Welsh |
| wen |
Sorbian (Other) |
| wln |
Walloon |
| wol |
Wolof |
| xal |
Oirat |
| xho |
Xhosa |
| yao |
Yao (Africa) |
| yap |
Yapese |
| yid |
Yiddish |
| yor |
Yoruba |
| ypk |
Yupik languages |
| zap |
Zapotec |
| zbl |
Blissymbolics |
| zen |
Zenaga |
| zha |
Zhuang |
| znd |
Zande languages |
| zul |
Zulu |
| zun |
Zuni |
| zxx |
No linguistic content |
| zza |
Zaza |
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