The following table lists the two-letter language codes from
the ISO 639
international standard. In applications, these two-letter codes are
represented by case-insensitive ASCII character codes.
In the World Wide Web, language codes are used to select between
special native language symbols, such as punctuation marks,
currency, numerical notation (e.g. commas instead of periods as
the decimal separator), text direction (left to right or right
to left), and so on.
The use of these codes is discussed in Chapters 6 and 7 of
The HTML 4.0 Sourcebook.
Table: Two-letter Language Codes, From ISO 639
| CODE
| Language
| CODE
| Language |
|---|
| | | |
| aa
| Afar
| ab
| Abkhazian |
| af
| Afrikaans
| am
| Amharic |
| ar
| Arabic
| as
| Assamese |
| ay
| Aymara
| az
| Azerbaijani |
| ba
| Bashkir
| be
| Byelorussian |
| bg
| Bulgarian
| bh
| Bihari |
| bi
| Bislama
| bn
| Bengali; Bangla |
| bo
| Tibetan
| br
| Breton |
| ca
| Catalan
| co
| Corsican |
| cs
| Czech
| cy
| Welsh |
| da
| Danish
| de
| German |
| dz
| Bhutani
| el
| Greek |
| en
| English
| eo
| Esperanto |
| es
| Spanish
| et
| Estonian |
| eu
| Basque
| fa
| Persian |
| fi
| Finnish
| fj
| Fiji |
| fo
| Faeroese
| fr
| French |
| fy
| Frisian
| ga
| Irish |
| gd
| Scots, Gaelic
| gl
| Galician |
| gn
| Guarani
| gu
| Gujarati |
| he
| Hebrew
| ha
| Hausa |
| hi
| Hindi
| hr
| Croatian |
| hu
| Hungarian
| hy
| Armenian |
| ia
| Interlingua
| id
| Indonesian |
| ie
| Interlingue
| ik
| Inupiak |
| in
| Indonesian
| is
| Icelandic |
| it
| Italian
| iu
| Inuktitut |
| iw
| Hebrew
(obsolete)
| ja
| Japanese |
| ji
| Yiddish
(obsolete)
| jw
| Javanese |
| ka
| Georgian
| kk
| Kazakh |
| kl
| Greenlandic
| km
| Cambodian |
| kn
| Kannada
| ko
| Korean |
| ks
| Kashmiri
| ku
| Kurdish |
| ky
| Kirghiz
| la
| Latin |
| ln
| Lingala
| lo
| Laothian |
| lt
| Lithuanian
| lv
| Latvian, Lettish |
| mg
| Malagasy
| mi
| Maori |
| mk
| Macedonian
| ml
| Malayalam |
| mn
| Mongolian
| mo
| Moldavian |
| mr
| Marathi
| ms
| Malay |
| mt
| Maltese
| my
| Burmese |
| na
| Nauru
| ne
| Nepali |
| nl
| Dutch
| no
| Norwegian |
| oc
| Occitan
| om
| (Afan), Oromo |
| or
| Oriya
| pa
| Punjabi |
| pl
| Polish
| ps
| Pashto, Pushto |
| pt
| Portuguese
| qu
| Quechua |
| rm
| Rhaeto-Romance
| rn
| Kirundi |
| ro
| Romanian
| ru
| Russian |
| rw
| Kinyarwanda
| sa
| Sanskrit |
| sd
| Sindhi
| sg
| Sangro |
| sh
| Serbo-Croatian
| si
| Singhalese |
| sk
| Slovak
| sl
| Slovenian |
| sm
| Samoan
| sn
| Shona |
| so
| Somali
| sq
| Albanian |
| sr
| Serbian
| ss
| Siswati |
| st
| Sesotho
| su
| Sundanese |
| sv
| Swedish
| sw
| Swahili |
| ta
| Tamil
| te
| Tegulu |
| tg
| Tajik
| th
| Thai |
| ti
| Tigrinya
| tk
| Turkmen |
| tl
| Tagalog
| tn
| Setswana |
| to
| Tonga
| tr
| Turkish |
| ts
| Tsonga
| tt
| Tatar |
| tw
| Twi
| ug
| Uigur |
| uk
| Ukrainian
| ur
| Urdu |
| uz
| Uzbek
| vi
| Vietnamese |
| vo
| Volapuk
| wo
| Wolof |
| xh
| Xhosa
| y
| Yiddish |
| yo
| Yoruba
| za
| Zuang |
| zh
| Chinese
| zu
| Zulu |
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| CODE
| Language
| CODE
| Language |