== 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. <
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> ||'''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||