ISO 639-2
The ISO standard ISO/FDIS 639-2, from the technical committee / subcommittee TC 37 / SC 2, contains 427 references to 402 languages. At least this list does. Each reference is a three letter ID. Every position in the ID is from the A-Z character set. No guarantees that the following list contains all references, nor that those present are correct.
ID |
Country |
aar |
Afar |
abk |
Abkhazian |
ace |
Achinese |
ach |
Acoli |
ada |
Adangme |
afa |
Afro-Asiatic (Other) |
afh |
Afrihili |
afr |
Afrikaans |
aka |
Akan |
akk |
Akkadian |
alb |
Albanian |
ale |
Aleut |
alg |
Algonquian Languages |
amh |
Amharic |
ang |
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
apa |
Apache Languages |
ara |
Arabic |
arc |
Aramaic |
arm |
Armenian |
arn |
Araucanian |
arp |
Arapaho |
art |
Artificial (Other) |
arw |
Arawak |
asm |
Assamese |
ath |
Athapascan Languages |
ava |
Avaric |
ave |
Avestan |
awa |
Awadhi |
aym |
Aymara |
aze |
Azerbaijani |
bad |
Banda |
bai |
Bamileke Languages |
bak |
Bashkir |
bal |
Baluchi |
bam |
Bambara |
ban |
Balinese |
baq |
Basque |
bas |
Basa |
bat |
Baltic (Other) |
bej |
Beja |
bel |
Byelorussian |
bem |
Bemba |
ben |
Bengali |
ber |
Berber (Other) |
bho |
Bhojpuri |
bih |
Bihari |
bik |
Bikol |
bin |
Bini |
bis |
Bislama |
bla |
Siksika |
bnt |
Bantu (Other) |
bod |
Tibetan |
bra |
Braj |
bre |
Breton |
bua |
Buriat |
bug |
Buginese |
bul |
Bulgarian |
bur |
Burmese |
cad |
Caddo |
cai |
Central American Indian (Other) |
car |
Carib |
cat |
Catalan |
cau |
Caucasian (Other) |
ceb |
Cebuano |
cel |
Celtic (Other) |
ces |
Czech |
cha |
Chamorro |
chb |
Chibcha |
che |
Chechen |
chg |
Chagatai |
chi |
Chinese |
chm |
Mari |
chn |
Chinook jargon |
cho |
Choctaw |
chr |
Cherokee |
chu |
Church Slavic |
chv |
Chuvash |
chy |
Cheyenne |
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 |
crp |
Creoles and Pidgins (Other) |
cus |
Cushitic (Other) |
cym |
Welsh |
cze |
Czech |
dak |
Dakota |
dan |
Danish |
del |
Delaware |
deu |
German |
din |
Dinka |
div |
Divehi |
doi |
Dogri |
dra |
Dravidian (Other) |
dua |
Duala |
dum |
Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) |
dut |
Dutch |
dyu |
Dyula |
dzo |
Dzongkha |
efi |
Efik |
egy |
Egyptian (Ancient) |
eka |
Ekajuk |
ell |
Greek, Modern (1453-) |
elx |
Elamite |
eng |
English |
enm |
English, Middle (ca. 1100-1500) |
epo |
Esperanto |
esk |
Eskimo (Other) |
esl |
Spanish |
est |
Estonian |
eus |
Basque |
ewe |
Ewe |
ewo |
Ewondo |
fan |
Fang |
fao |
Faroese |
fas |
Persian |
fat |
Fanti |
fij |
Fijian |
fin |
Finnish |
fiu |
Finno-Ugrian (Other) |
fon |
Fon |
fra |
French |
fre |
French |
frm |
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) |
fro |
French, Old (842- ca. 1400) |
fry |
Frisian |
ful |
Fulah |
gaa |
Ga |
gae |
Gaelic (Scots) |
gai |
Irish |
gay |
Gayo |
gdh |
Gaelic (Scots) |
gem |
Germanic (Other) |
geo |
Georgian |
ger |
German |
gez |
Geez |
gil |
Gilbertese |
glg |
Gallegan |
gmh |
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) |
goh |
German, Old High (ca. 750-1050) |
gon |
Gondi |
got |
Gothic |
grb |
Grebo |
grc |
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
gre |
Greek, Modern (1453-) |
grn |
Guarani |
guj |
Gujarati |
hai |
Haida |
hau |
Hausa |
haw |
Hawaiian |
heb |
Hebrew |
her |
Herero |
hil |
Hiligaynon |
him |
Himachali |
hin |
Hindi |
hmo |
Hiri Motu |
hun |
Hungarian |
hup |
Hupa |
hye |
Armenian |
iba |
Iban |
ibo |
Igbo |
ice |
Icelandic |
ijo |
Ijo |
iku |
Inuktitut |
ilo |
Iloko |
ina |
Interlingua (International Auxiliary language Association) |
inc |
Indic (Other) |
ind |
Indonesian |
ine |
Indo-European (Other) |
ine |
Interlingue |
ipk |
Inupiak |
ira |
Iranian (Other) |
iri |
Irish |
iro |
Iroquoian uages |
isl |
Icelandic |
ita |
Italian |
jav |
Javanese |
jaw |
Javanese |
jpn |
Japanese |
jpr |
Judeo-Persian |
jrb |
Judeo-Arabic |
kaa |
Kara-Kalpak |
kab |
Kabyle |
kac |
Kachin |
kal |
Greenlandic |
kam |
Kamba |
kan |
Kannada |
kar |
Karen |
kas |
Kashmiri |
kat |
Georgian |
kau |
Kanuri |
kaw |
Kawi |
kaz |
Kazakh |
kha |
Khasi |
khi |
Khoisan (Other) |
khm |
Khmer |
kho |
Khotanese |
kik |
Kikuyu |
kin |
Kinyarwanda |
kir |
Kirghiz |
kok |
Konkani |
kom |
Komi |
kon |
Kongo |
kor |
Korean |
kpe |
Kpelle |
kro |
Kru |
kru |
Kurukh |
kua |
Kuanyama |
kum |
Kumyk |
kur |
Kurdish |
kus |
Kusaie |
kut |
Kutenai |
lad |
Ladino |
lah |
Lahnda |
lam |
Lamba |
lao |
Lao |
lat |
Latin |
lav |
Latvian |
lez |
Lezghian |
lin |
Lingala |
lit |
Lithuanian |
lol |
Mongo |
loz |
Lozi |
ltz |
Letzeburgesch |
lub |
Luba-Katanga |
lug |
Ganda |
lui |
Luiseno |
lun |
Lunda |
luo |
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) |
mac |
Macedonian |
mad |
Madurese |
mag |
Magahi |
mah |
Marshall |
mai |
Maithili |
mak |
Macedonian |
mak |
Makasar |
mal |
Malayalam |
man |
Mandingo |
mao |
Maori |
map |
Austronesian (Other) |
mar |
Marathi |
mas |
Masai |
max |
Manx |
may |
Malay |
men |
Mende |
mga |
Irish, Middle (900 - 1200) |
mic |
Micmac |
min |
Minangkabau |
mis |
Miscellaneous (Other) |
mkh |
Mon-Kmer (Other) |
mlg |
Malagasy |
mlt |
Maltese |
mni |
Manipuri |
mno |
Manobo Languages |
moh |
Mohawk |
mol |
Moldavian |
mon |
Mongolian |
mos |
Mossi |
mri |
Maori |
msa |
Malay |
mul |
Multiple Languages |
mun |
Munda Languages |
mus |
Creek |
mwr |
Marwari |
mya |
Burmese |
myn |
Mayan Languages |
nah |
Aztec |
nai |
North American Indian (Other) |
nau |
Nauru |
nav |
Navajo |
nbl |
Ndebele, South |
nde |
Ndebele, North |
ndo |
Ndongo |
nep |
Nepali |
new |
Newari |
nic |
Niger-Kordofanian (Other) |
niu |
Niuean |
nla |
Dutch |
nno |
Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
non |
Norse, Old |
nor |
Norwegian |
nso |
Sotho, Northern |
nub |
Nubian Languages |
nya |
Nyanja |
nym |
Nyamwezi |
nyn |
Nyankole |
nyo |
Nyoro |
nzi |
Nzima |
oci |
Langue d'Oc (post 1500) |
oji |
Ojibwa |
ori |
Oriya |
orm |
Oromo |
osa |
Osage |
oss |
Ossetic |
ota |
Turkish, Ottoman (1500 - 1928) |
oto |
Otomian Languages |
paa |
Papuan-Australian (Other) |
pag |
Pangasinan |
pal |
Pahlavi |
pam |
Pampanga |
pan |
Panjabi |
pap |
Papiamento |
pau |
Palauan |
peo |
Persian, Old (ca 600 - 400 B.C.) |
per |
Persian |
phn |
Phoenician |
pli |
Pali |
pol |
Polish |
pon |
Ponape |
por |
Portuguese |
pra |
Prakrit uages |
pro |
Provencal, Old (to 1500) |
pus |
Pushto |
que |
Quechua |
raj |
Rajasthani |
rar |
Rarotongan |
roa |
Romance (Other) |
roh |
Rhaeto-Romance |
rom |
Romany |
ron |
Romanian |
rum |
Romanian |
run |
Rundi |
rus |
Russian |
sad |
Sandawe |
sag |
Sango |
sah |
Yakut |
sai |
South American Indian (Other) |
sal |
Salishan Languages |
sam |
Samaritan Aramaic |
san |
Sanskrit |
sco |
Scots |
scr |
Serbo-Croatian |
sel |
Selkup |
sem |
Semitic (Other) |
sga |
Irish, Old (to 900) |
shn |
Shan |
sid |
Sidamo |
sin |
Singhalese |
sio |
Siouan Languages |
sit |
Sino-Tibetan (Other) |
sla |
Slavic (Other) |
slk |
Slovak |
slo |
Slovak |
slv |
Slovenian |
smi |
Sami Languages |
smo |
Samoan |
sna |
Shona |
snd |
Sindhi |
sog |
Sogdian |
som |
Somali |
son |
Songhai |
sot |
Sotho, Southern |
spa |
Spanish |
sqi |
Albanian |
srd |
Sardinian |
srr |
Serer |
ssa |
Nilo-Saharan (Other) |
ssw |
Siswant |
ssw |
Swazi |
suk |
Sukuma |
sun |
Sudanese |
sus |
Susu |
sux |
Sumerian |
sve |
Swedish |
swa |
Swahili |
swe |
Swedish |
syr |
Syriac |
tah |
Tahitian |
tam |
Tamil |
tat |
Tatar |
tel |
Telugu |
tem |
Timne |
ter |
Tereno |
tgk |
Tajik |
tgl |
Tagalog |
tha |
Thai |
tib |
Tibetan |
tig |
Tigre |
tir |
Tigrinya |
tiv |
Tivi |
tli |
Tlingit |
tmh |
Tamashek |
tog |
Tonga (Nyasa) |
ton |
Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
tru |
Truk |
tsi |
Tsimshian |
tsn |
Tswana |
tso |
Tsonga |
tuk |
Turkmen |
tum |
Tumbuka |
tur |
Turkish |
tut |
Altaic (Other) |
twi |
Twi |
tyv |
Tuvinian |
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 |
Walamo |
war |
Waray |
was |
Washo |
wel |
Welsh |
wen |
Sorbian Languages |
wol |
Wolof |
xho |
Xhosa |
yao |
Yao |
yap |
Yap |
yid |
Yiddish |
yor |
Yoruba |
zap |
Zapotec |
zen |
Zenaga |
zha |
Zhuang |
zho |
Chinese |
zul |
Zulu |
zun |
Zuni |