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Country Codes

The ISO 639 standard defines two character codes for many countries. All abbreviations for countries or languages used in the Translation Project should come from this standard.

`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'

Faroese.

`fr'

French.

`fy'

Frisian.

`ga'

Irish.

`gd'

Scots Gaelic.

`gl'

Galician.

`gn'

Guarani.

`gu'

Gujarati.

`ha'

Hausa.

`he'

Hebrew (formerly iw).

`hi'

Hindi.

`hr'

Croatian.

`hu'

Hungarian.

`hy'

Armenian.

`ia'

Interlingua.

`id'

Indonesian (formerly in).

`ie'

Interlingue.

`ik'

Inupiak.

`is'

Icelandic.

`it'

Italian.

`iu'

Inuktitut.

`ja'

Japanese.

`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'

Sinhalese.

`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'

Telugu.

`tg'

Tajik.

`th'

Thai.

`ti'

Tigrinya.

`tk'

Turkmen.

`tl'

Tagalog.

`tn'

Setswana.

`to'

Tonga.

`tr'

Turkish.

`ts'

Tsonga.

`tt'

Tatar.

`tw'

Twi.

`ug'

Uighur.

`uk'

Ukrainian.

`ur'

Urdu.

`uz'

Uzbek.

`vi'

Vietnamese.

`vo'

Volapuk.

`wo'

Wolof.

`xh'

Xhosa.

`yi'

Yiddish (formerly ji).

`yo'

Yoruba.

`za'

Zhuang.

`zh'

Chinese.

`zu'

Zulu.

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