ISO 639-1 language codes represent names of the major world languages. They are language identifiers that were developed for the needs of terminology, linguistics, translation and documentation, as well as lexicography and information.
The codes are assigned by the Infoterm (the International Information Centre for Terminology), based in Vienna, Austria.
COUNTRY CODE
|
NAME OF THE LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH |
COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES WHERE THE LANGUAGE IS USED |
|---|---|---|
| AA | Afar | The Republic of Djibouti, Eritrea, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
| AB | Abkhaz | Abkhazia (Georgia) |
| AE | Avestan | The Islamic Republic of Iran |
| AF | Afrikaans | The Republic of South Africa, the Republic of Namibia |
| AK | Akan | The Republic of Ghana, the eastern part of the Ivory Coast |
| AM | Amharic | The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
| AN | Aragonese | Aragon (the Kingdom of Spain) |
| AR | Arabic | The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Yemen, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Sultanate of Oman, the Western Sahara, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of the Sudan, the Republic of Tunisia |
| AS | Assamese | Assam (the Republic of India) |
| AV | Avaric | North-western part of Azerbaijan (the Republic of Azerbaijan), the Republic of Dagestan (the Russian Federation) |
| AY | Aymara | The Aymara Indian tribal language – western part of the Republic of Bolivia, northern part of the Republic of Chile, southern part of the Republic of Peru |
| AZ | Azerbaijani | The Republic of Azerbaijan, north-western part of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
| BA | Bashkir | The Republic of Bashkortostan (the Russian Federation) |
| BE | Belarusian | The Republic of Belarus |
| BG | Bulgarian | The Republic of Bulgaria |
| BH | Bihari | Bihar (the Republic of India) |
| BI | Bislama | The Republic of Vanuatu |
| BM | Bambara | Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, the Republic of Senegal |
| BN | Bengali | Assam and West Bengal (the Republic of India), People’s Republic of Bangladesh |
| BO | Tibetan | Tibet (the People’s Republic of China) |
| BR | Bretoņ | Brittany (the Republic of France) |
| BS | Bosnian | The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Montenegro, the Republic of Serbia |
| CA | Catalan | The Principality of Andorra, Catalonia (the Kingdom of Spain) |
| CE | Chechen | The Chechen Republic (the Russian Federation) |
| CH | Chamorro | The United States territory of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands |
| CO | Corsican | Corsica (the Republic of France), north Sardinia (the Republic of Italy) |
| CR | Cree | Canadian Aboriginal language |
| CS | Czech | The Czech Republic |
| CU | Old Church Slavonic | The first literary Slavic language (the text of the Bible and other ancient writings) |
| CV | Chuvash | The Chuvash Republic and its neighbouring countries (the Russian Federation) |
| CY | Welsh | Wales (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) |
| DA | Danish | The Kingdom of Denmark |
| DE | German | The Republic of Austria, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Swiss Confederation, the Federal Republic of Germany |
| DV | Maldivian | The Republic of Maldives |
| DZ | Dzongkha | The Kingdom of Bhutan |
| EE | Ewe | The Republic of Benin, the Republic of Ghana, the Republic of Togo |
| EL | Greek | The Hellenic Republic (Greece), the Republic of Cyprus |
| EN | English | The United States of America, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of South Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, etc. |
| EO | Esperanto | An artificial international language of communication |
| ES | Spanish | The Kingdom of Spain, several South American countries |
| ET | Estonian | The Republic of Estonia |
| EU | Basque | South-western part of the Republic of France, central part of the Kingdom of Spain |
| FA | Persian | The Islamic State of Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Tajikistan |
| FF | Fula | The Republic of Gambia, the Republic of Guinea, the Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Senegal, the Republic of Sudan |
| FI | Finnish | The Republic of Finland |
| FJ | Fijian | The Republic of Fiji |
| FO | Faroese | Faroe Islands (the Kingdom of Denmark) |
| FR | French | The Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of France, Canada, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, several countries in Africa |
| FY | Western Frisian | Northern part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| GA | Irish | Ireland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| GD | Gaelic | Scotland (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) |
| GL | Galician | Galicia (the Kingdom of Spain), the Portuguese Republic |
| GN | Guaraní | The Republic of Paraguay |
| GU | Gujarati | Gujarati and other union territories of India (the Republic of India) |
| GV | Manx | Isle of Man (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) |
| HA | Hausa | The Republic of Niger, northern part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria |
| HE | Hebrew | Israel |
| HI | Hindi | Central and northern parts of the Republic of India |
| HO | Hiri Motu | The Independent State of Papua New Guinea |
| HR | Croatian | The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Montenegro |
| HT | Haitian | The Republic of Haiti |
| HU | Hungarian | The Republic of Hungary |
| HY | Armenian | The Republic of Armenia |
| HZ | Herero | The Republic of Botswana, the Republic of Namibia |
| IA | Interlingua | International auxiliary language developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association |
| IN | Indonesian | The Republic of Indonesia |
| IE | Interlingue | Artificial language created by Edgar de Wahl in 1922 |
| IG | Igbo | The Federal Republic of Nigeria |
| II | Sichuanese | Sichuan (the People’s Republic of China) |
| IK | Inupiaq | Northern and north-western parts of Alaska (the United States of America) |
| IO | Ido | Artificial language created in 1907 |
| IS | Icelandic | The Republic of Iceland |
| IT | Italian | The Republic of Italy, the Republic of San Marino, Swiss Confederation, the Vatican City State |
| IU | Inuktitut | North Canada |
| JA | Japanese | Japan |
| JV | Javanese | Island of Java (the Republic of Indonesia) |
| KA | Georgian | Georgia |
| KG | Kongo | The Republic of Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo |
| KI | Kikuyu | The Republic of Kenya |
| KJ | Kwanyama | The Republic of Angola, the Republic of Namibia |
| KK | Kazakh | The Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the Republic of Uzbekistan |
| KL | Greenlandic | Greenland (the Kingdom of Denmark) |
| KM | Khmer | The Kingdom of Cambodia, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| KN | Kannada | Karnataka (the Republic of India) |
| KO | Korean | The Republic of Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| KR | Kanuri | The Republic of Chad, the Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Niger, the Federal Republic of Nigeria |
| KS | Kashmiri | Jammu and Kashmir (the Republic of India), the Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
| KU | Kurdish | Northern part of the Republic of Iraq, north-western part of the Islamic Republic of Iran, south-eastern part of the Republic of Turkey |
| KV | Komi | The Komi Republic (Russian Federation) |
| KW | Cornish | Cornwall (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) |
| KY | Kyrgyz | The Republic of Kyrgyzstan |
| LA | Latin | The Vatican City State, the official language of the Roman Catholic Church. Latin is currently used in biology, medicine and other fields as an internationally recognised scientific terminology language |
| LB | Luxembourgish | The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg |
| LG | Ganda | Southeast Uganda (the Republic of Uganda) |
| LI | Limburgish | The Kingdom of Belgium, the Dutch border (the Kingdom of the Netherlands), the Federal Republic of Germany |
| LN | Lingala | The Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo |
| LO | Lao | Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Kingdom of Thailand |
| LT | Lithuanian | The Republic of Lithuania |
| LU | Luba-Katanga | The Democratic Republic of Congo |
| LV | Latvian | The Republic of Latvia |
| MG | Malagasy | The Republic of Madagascar |
| MH | Marshallese | The Republic of Marshall Islands, the Republic of Nauru |
| MI | Māori | New Zealand |
| MK | Macedonian | The Republic of Macedonia |
| ML | Malayalam | Kerala (the Republic of India) |
| MN | Mongolian | Mongolia |
| MO | Moldavian | The Republic of Moldova |
| MR | Marathi | Maharashtra (the Republic of India) |
| MS | Malay | East Timor, Brunei Darussalam, the Republic of Indonesia, the Federation of Malaysia, the Republic of Singapore |
| MT | Maltese | The Republic of Malta |
| MY | Burmese | The Union of Myanmar |
| NA | Nauru | The Republic of Nauru |
| NB | Norwegian Bokmål | One of the two written forms of the Norwegian language in the Kingdom of Norway. It is based on Danish vocabulary and grammar, and Norwegian phonetics. |
| ND | North Ndebele | The Republic of Zimbabwe |
| NE | Nepali | The Kingdom of Bhutan, the Republic of India, the Union of Myanmar, the Kingdom of Nepal |
| NG | Ndonga | South Angola (the Republic of Angola), the Republic of Namibia |
| NL | Dutch | The Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| NN | Norwegian Nynorsk | One of the two written forms of the Norwegian language in the Kingdom of Norway developed in the 1850s by the linguist Ivar Aasen by synthesising the Norwegian dialects. |
| NO | Norwegian | The Kingdom of Norway |
| NR | South Ndebele | The Republic of South Africa |
| NV | Navajo | Language of the Navajo Indian tribe (the United States of America) |
| NY | Chichewa | The Republic of Malawi, central and southern parts of the African continent |
| OC | Occitan | Southern part of the Republic of France |
| OJ | Ojibwe | The United States of America, Canada |
| OM | Oromo | The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Republic of Kenya |
| OR | Oriya | Orissa (the Republic of India) |
| OS | Ossetian | Georgia, the Russian Federation |
| PA | Panjabi | The Republic of India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
| PI | Pāli | Literary and liturgical language of the Republic of India |
| PL | Polish | The Republic of Poland |
| PS | Pashto | The Islamic State of Afghanistan, north-western part of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
| PT | Portuguese | The Republic of Angola, East Timor, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of Mozambique, the Republic of Portugal, etc. |
| QU | Quechua | The Republic of Argentina, the Republic of Bolivia, the Republic of Chile, the Republic of Ecuador, the Republic of Colombia, the Republic of Peru |
| RM | Romansh | The Swiss Confederation |
| RN | Kirundi | The Republic of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania |
| RO | Romanian | The Republic of Moldova, Romania |
| RU | Russian | The Russian Federation |
| RW | Kinyarwanda | The Republic of Rwanda |
| SA | Sanskrit | One of the liturgical languages of Buddhism and Hinduism in the Republic of India |
| SC | Sardinian | Sardinia (the Republic of Italy) |
| SD | Sindhi | The Republic of India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
| SE | Northern Sami | Northern part of the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Karelia (the Russian Federation), the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden |
| SG | Sango | The Central African Republic |
| SI | Sinhala | The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka |
| SK | Slovak | The Slovak Republic |
| SL | Slovenian | The Republic of Slovenia |
| SM | Samoan | The Independent State of Samoa |
| SN | Shona | Southern part of the Republic of Zambia, the Republic of Zimbabwe |
| SO | Somali | The Republic of Djibouti, the Federative Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Republic of Yemen, the Republic of Kenya, the Somali Republic |
| SQ | Albanian | The Republic of Albania, the Republic of Kosovo |
| SR | Serbian | The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Montenegro, the Republic of Serbia |
| SS | Swati | The Republic of South Africa, the Kingdom of Swaziland |
| ST | Southern Sotho | The Republic of South Africa, the Kingdom of Lesotho |
| SU | Sundanese | Island of Java (the Republic of Indonesia) |
| SV | Swedish | The Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden |
| SW | Swahili | The Republic of Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic of Uganda |
| TA | Tamil | The Republic of India, the Republic of Singapore, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka |
| TE | Telugu | The Republic of India |
| TG | Tajik | The Islamic State of Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Tajikistan |
| TH | Thai | The Kingdom of Cambodia, North Federation of Malaysia, the Union of Myanmar, the Kingdom of Lesotho, the Kingdom of Thailand |
| TI | Tigrinya | Eritrea, the Federative Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
| TK | Turkmen | The Islamic State of Afghanistan, the Republic of Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Turkey, Turkmenistan |
| TL | Tagalog | The Republic of the Philippines |
| TN | Tswana | The Republic of Botswana, the Republic of South Africa |
| TO | Tonga | The Kingdom of Tonga |
| TR | Turkish | The Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Turkey |
| TS | Tsonga | The Republic of South Africa, the Republic of Mozambique, the Kingdom of Swaziland, the Republic of Zimbabwe |
| TT | Tatar | The Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Republic of Tatarstan (the Russian Federation) |
| TW | Twi | The Republic of Ghana |
| TY | Tahitian | French Polynesia |
| UG | Uighur | The Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan |
| UK | Ukrainian | Ukraine |
| UR | Urdu | The Republic of India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
| UZ | Uzbek | The Republic of Uzbekistan |
| VE | Venda | The Republic of South Africa, the Republic of Zimbabwe |
| VI | Vietnamese | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| VO | Volapük | Artificial language developed between 1879 and 1880 by a German priest Johann Martin Schleyer |
| WO | Wolof | The Republic of Gambia, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the Republic of Senegal |
| XH | Xhosa | The Republic of South Africa |
| YI | Yiddish | A Hebrew language spoken by the Jewish diaspora in many parts of the world, for example, the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Sweden, etc. |
| YO | Yoruba | The Republic of Benin, the Federative Republic of Nigeria, the Republic of Togo |
| ZA | Zhuang | The People’s Republic of China |
| ZH | Chinese | The People’s Republic of China |
| ZU | Zulu | The Republic of South Africa, the Republic of Malawi, the Republic of Mozambique, the Kingdom of Swaziland, the Republic of Zimbabwe |
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