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Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F)
"Code for the representation of names of languages".

Typed by Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk 1990-11-30
Minor corrections, 1992-09-08 by Keld Simonsen
Sundanese corrected, 1992-11-11 by Keld Simonsen
Telugu corrected, 1995-08-24 by Keld Simonsen
Hebrew, Indonesian, Yiddish corrected 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Inuktitut, Uighur, Zhuang added 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Sinhalese corrected, 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Faeroese corrected to Faroese, 1995-11-18 by Keld Simonsen
Updated from http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html,
2003-08-14 by Bruno Haible

Two-letter lower-case symbols are used.
The Registration Authority for ISO 639 is Infoterm, Osterreichisches
Normungsinstitut (ON), Postfach 130, A-1021 Vienna, Austria.

aa Afar
ab Abkhazian
ae Avestan
af Afrikaans
am Amharic
an Aragonese
ar Arabic
as Assamese
ay Aymara
az Azerbaijani

ba Bashkir
be Byelorussian; Belarusian
bg Bulgarian
bh Bihari
bi Bislama
bn Bengali; Bangla
bo Tibetan
br Breton
bs Bosnian

ca Catalan
ce Chechen
ch Chamorro
co Corsican
cs Czech
cu Church Slavic
cv Chuvash
cy Welsh

da Danish
de German
dz Dzongkha; Bhutani

el Greek
en English
eo Esperanto
es Spanish
et Estonian
eu Basque

fa Persian
fi Finnish
fj Fijian; Fiji
fo Faroese
fr French
fy Frisian

ga Irish
gd Scots; Gaelic
gl Gallegan; Galician
gn Guarani
gu Gujarati
gv Manx

ha Hausa (?)
he Hebrew (formerly iw)
hi Hindi
ho Hiri Motu
hr Croatian
ht Haitian; Haitian Creole
hu Hungarian
hy Armenian
hz Herero

ia Interlingua
id Indonesian (formerly in)
ie Interlingue
ii Sichuan Yi
ik Inupiak
io Ido
is Icelandic
it Italian
iu Inuktitut

ja Japanese
jv Javanese

ka Georgian
ki Kikuyu
kj Kuanyama
kk Kazakh
kl Kalaallisut; Greenlandic
km Khmer; Cambodian
kn Kannada
ko Korean
ks Kashmiri
ku Kurdish
kv Komi
kw Cornish
ky Kirghiz

la Latin
lb Letzeburgesch
li Limburgish; Limburger; Limburgan
ln Lingala
lo Lao; Laotian
lt Lithuanian
lv Latvian; Lettish

mg Malagasy
mh Marshall
mi Maori
mk Macedonian
ml Malayalam
mn Mongolian
mo Moldavian
mr Marathi
ms Malay
mt Maltese
my Burmese

na Nauru
nb Norwegian Bokm@aa{}l
nd Ndebele, North
ne Nepali
ng Ndonga
nl Dutch
nn Norwegian Nynorsk
no Norwegian
nr Ndebele, South
nv Navajo
ny Chichewa; Nyanja

oc Occitan; Proven@,{c}al
om (Afan) Oromo
or Oriya
os Ossetian; Ossetic

pa Panjabi; Punjabi
pi Pali
pl Polish
ps Pashto, Pushto
pt Portuguese

qu Quechua

rm Rhaeto-Romance
rn Rundi; Kirundi
ro Romanian
ru Russian
rw Kinyarwanda

sa Sanskrit
sc Sardinian
sd Sindhi
se Northern Sami
sg Sango; Sangro
si Sinhalese
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
sm Samoan
sn Shona
so Somali
sq Albanian
sr Serbian
ss Swati; Siswati
st Sesotho; Sotho, Southern
su Sundanese
sv Swedish
sw Swahili

ta Tamil
te Telugu
tg Tajik
th Thai
ti Tigrinya
tk Turkmen
tl Tagalog
tn Tswana; Setswana
to Tonga (?)
tr Turkish
ts Tsonga
tt Tatar
tw Twi
ty Tahitian

ug Uighur
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek

vi Vietnamese
vo Volap@"{u}k; Volapuk

wa Walloon
wo Wolof

xh Xhosa

yi Yiddish (formerly ji)
yo Yoruba

za Zhuang
zh Chinese
zu Zulu