<HTML> <HEAD> <!-- This HTML file has been created by texi2html 1.52a from gettext.texi on 30 November 2003 --> <TITLE>GNU gettext utilities - A Language Codes</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Go to the <A HREF="gettext_1.html">first</A>, <A HREF="gettext_14.html">previous</A>, <A HREF="gettext_16.html">next</A>, <A HREF="gettext_22.html">last</A> section, <A HREF="gettext_toc.html">table of contents</A>. <P><HR><P> <H1><A NAME="SEC282" HREF="gettext_toc.html#TOC282">A Language Codes</A></H1> <P> <A NAME="IDX1132"></A> <A NAME="IDX1133"></A> </P> <P> The ISO 639 standard defines two character codes for many languages. All abbreviations for languages used in the Translation Project should come from this standard. </P> <DL COMPACT> <DT><SAMP>`aa´</SAMP> <DD> Afar. <DT><SAMP>`ab´</SAMP> <DD> Abkhazian. <DT><SAMP>`ae´</SAMP> <DD> Avestan. <DT><SAMP>`af´</SAMP> <DD> Afrikaans. <DT><SAMP>`am´</SAMP> <DD> Amharic. <DT><SAMP>`an´</SAMP> <DD> Aragonese. <DT><SAMP>`ar´</SAMP> <DD> Arabic. <DT><SAMP>`as´</SAMP> <DD> Assamese. <DT><SAMP>`ay´</SAMP> <DD> Aymara. <DT><SAMP>`az´</SAMP> <DD> Azerbaijani. <DT><SAMP>`ba´</SAMP> <DD> Bashkir. <DT><SAMP>`be´</SAMP> <DD> Byelorussian; Belarusian. <DT><SAMP>`bg´</SAMP> <DD> Bulgarian. <DT><SAMP>`bh´</SAMP> <DD> Bihari. <DT><SAMP>`bi´</SAMP> <DD> Bislama. <DT><SAMP>`bn´</SAMP> <DD> Bengali; Bangla. <DT><SAMP>`bo´</SAMP> <DD> Tibetan. <DT><SAMP>`br´</SAMP> <DD> Breton. <DT><SAMP>`bs´</SAMP> <DD> Bosnian. <DT><SAMP>`ca´</SAMP> <DD> Catalan. <DT><SAMP>`ce´</SAMP> <DD> Chechen. <DT><SAMP>`ch´</SAMP> <DD> Chamorro. <DT><SAMP>`co´</SAMP> <DD> Corsican. <DT><SAMP>`cs´</SAMP> <DD> Czech. <DT><SAMP>`cu´</SAMP> <DD> Church Slavic. <DT><SAMP>`cv´</SAMP> <DD> Chuvash. <DT><SAMP>`cy´</SAMP> <DD> Welsh. <DT><SAMP>`da´</SAMP> <DD> Danish. <DT><SAMP>`de´</SAMP> <DD> German. <DT><SAMP>`dz´</SAMP> <DD> Dzongkha; Bhutani. <DT><SAMP>`el´</SAMP> <DD> Greek. <DT><SAMP>`en´</SAMP> <DD> English. <DT><SAMP>`eo´</SAMP> <DD> Esperanto. <DT><SAMP>`es´</SAMP> <DD> Spanish. <DT><SAMP>`et´</SAMP> <DD> Estonian. <DT><SAMP>`eu´</SAMP> <DD> Basque. <DT><SAMP>`fa´</SAMP> <DD> Persian. <DT><SAMP>`fi´</SAMP> <DD> Finnish. <DT><SAMP>`fj´</SAMP> <DD> Fijian; Fiji. <DT><SAMP>`fo´</SAMP> <DD> Faroese. <DT><SAMP>`fr´</SAMP> <DD> French. <DT><SAMP>`fy´</SAMP> <DD> Frisian. <DT><SAMP>`ga´</SAMP> <DD> Irish. <DT><SAMP>`gd´</SAMP> <DD> Scots; Gaelic. <DT><SAMP>`gl´</SAMP> <DD> Gallegan; Galician. <DT><SAMP>`gn´</SAMP> <DD> Guarani. <DT><SAMP>`gu´</SAMP> <DD> Gujarati. <DT><SAMP>`gv´</SAMP> <DD> Manx. <DT><SAMP>`ha´</SAMP> <DD> Hausa (?). <DT><SAMP>`he´</SAMP> <DD> Hebrew (formerly iw). <DT><SAMP>`hi´</SAMP> <DD> Hindi. <DT><SAMP>`ho´</SAMP> <DD> Hiri Motu. <DT><SAMP>`hr´</SAMP> <DD> Croatian. <DT><SAMP>`ht´</SAMP> <DD> Haitian; Haitian Creole. <DT><SAMP>`hu´</SAMP> <DD> Hungarian. <DT><SAMP>`hy´</SAMP> <DD> Armenian. <DT><SAMP>`hz´</SAMP> <DD> Herero. <DT><SAMP>`ia´</SAMP> <DD> Interlingua. <DT><SAMP>`id´</SAMP> <DD> Indonesian (formerly in). <DT><SAMP>`ie´</SAMP> <DD> Interlingue. <DT><SAMP>`ii´</SAMP> <DD> Sichuan Yi. <DT><SAMP>`ik´</SAMP> <DD> Inupiak. <DT><SAMP>`io´</SAMP> <DD> Ido. <DT><SAMP>`is´</SAMP> <DD> Icelandic. <DT><SAMP>`it´</SAMP> <DD> Italian. <DT><SAMP>`iu´</SAMP> <DD> Inuktitut. <DT><SAMP>`ja´</SAMP> <DD> Japanese. <DT><SAMP>`jv´</SAMP> <DD> Javanese. <DT><SAMP>`ka´</SAMP> <DD> Georgian. <DT><SAMP>`ki´</SAMP> <DD> Kikuyu. <DT><SAMP>`kj´</SAMP> <DD> Kuanyama. <DT><SAMP>`kk´</SAMP> <DD> Kazakh. <DT><SAMP>`kl´</SAMP> <DD> Kalaallisut; Greenlandic. <DT><SAMP>`km´</SAMP> <DD> Khmer; Cambodian. <DT><SAMP>`kn´</SAMP> <DD> Kannada. <DT><SAMP>`ko´</SAMP> <DD> Korean. <DT><SAMP>`ks´</SAMP> <DD> Kashmiri. <DT><SAMP>`ku´</SAMP> <DD> Kurdish. <DT><SAMP>`kv´</SAMP> <DD> Komi. <DT><SAMP>`kw´</SAMP> <DD> Cornish. <DT><SAMP>`ky´</SAMP> <DD> Kirghiz. <DT><SAMP>`la´</SAMP> <DD> Latin. <DT><SAMP>`lb´</SAMP> <DD> Letzeburgesch. <DT><SAMP>`li´</SAMP> <DD> Limburgish; Limburger; Limburgan. <DT><SAMP>`ln´</SAMP> <DD> Lingala. <DT><SAMP>`lo´</SAMP> <DD> Lao; Laotian. <DT><SAMP>`lt´</SAMP> <DD> Lithuanian. <DT><SAMP>`lv´</SAMP> <DD> Latvian; Lettish. <DT><SAMP>`mg´</SAMP> <DD> Malagasy. <DT><SAMP>`mh´</SAMP> <DD> Marshall. <DT><SAMP>`mi´</SAMP> <DD> Maori. <DT><SAMP>`mk´</SAMP> <DD> Macedonian. <DT><SAMP>`ml´</SAMP> <DD> Malayalam. <DT><SAMP>`mn´</SAMP> <DD> Mongolian. <DT><SAMP>`mo´</SAMP> <DD> Moldavian. <DT><SAMP>`mr´</SAMP> <DD> Marathi. <DT><SAMP>`ms´</SAMP> <DD> Malay. <DT><SAMP>`mt´</SAMP> <DD> Maltese. <DT><SAMP>`my´</SAMP> <DD> Burmese. <DT><SAMP>`na´</SAMP> <DD> Nauru. <DT><SAMP>`nb´</SAMP> <DD> Norwegian Bokmål. <DT><SAMP>`nd´</SAMP> <DD> Ndebele, North. <DT><SAMP>`ne´</SAMP> <DD> Nepali. <DT><SAMP>`ng´</SAMP> <DD> Ndonga. <DT><SAMP>`nl´</SAMP> <DD> Dutch. <DT><SAMP>`nn´</SAMP> <DD> Norwegian Nynorsk. <DT><SAMP>`no´</SAMP> <DD> Norwegian. <DT><SAMP>`nr´</SAMP> <DD> Ndebele, South. <DT><SAMP>`nv´</SAMP> <DD> Navajo. <DT><SAMP>`ny´</SAMP> <DD> Chichewa; Nyanja. <DT><SAMP>`oc´</SAMP> <DD> Occitan; Provençal. <DT><SAMP>`om´</SAMP> <DD> (Afan) Oromo. <DT><SAMP>`or´</SAMP> <DD> Oriya. <DT><SAMP>`os´</SAMP> <DD> Ossetian; Ossetic. <DT><SAMP>`pa´</SAMP> <DD> Panjabi; Punjabi. <DT><SAMP>`pi´</SAMP> <DD> Pali. <DT><SAMP>`pl´</SAMP> <DD> Polish. <DT><SAMP>`ps´</SAMP> <DD> Pashto, Pushto. <DT><SAMP>`pt´</SAMP> <DD> Portuguese. <DT><SAMP>`qu´</SAMP> <DD> Quechua. <DT><SAMP>`rm´</SAMP> <DD> Rhaeto-Romance. <DT><SAMP>`rn´</SAMP> <DD> Rundi; Kirundi. <DT><SAMP>`ro´</SAMP> <DD> Romanian. <DT><SAMP>`ru´</SAMP> <DD> Russian. <DT><SAMP>`rw´</SAMP> <DD> Kinyarwanda. <DT><SAMP>`sa´</SAMP> <DD> Sanskrit. <DT><SAMP>`sc´</SAMP> <DD> Sardinian. <DT><SAMP>`sd´</SAMP> <DD> Sindhi. <DT><SAMP>`se´</SAMP> <DD> Northern Sami. <DT><SAMP>`sg´</SAMP> <DD> Sango; Sangro. <DT><SAMP>`si´</SAMP> <DD> Sinhalese. <DT><SAMP>`sk´</SAMP> <DD> Slovak. <DT><SAMP>`sl´</SAMP> <DD> Slovenian. <DT><SAMP>`sm´</SAMP> <DD> Samoan. <DT><SAMP>`sn´</SAMP> <DD> Shona. <DT><SAMP>`so´</SAMP> <DD> Somali. <DT><SAMP>`sq´</SAMP> <DD> Albanian. <DT><SAMP>`sr´</SAMP> <DD> Serbian. <DT><SAMP>`ss´</SAMP> <DD> Swati; Siswati. <DT><SAMP>`st´</SAMP> <DD> Sesotho; Sotho, Southern. <DT><SAMP>`su´</SAMP> <DD> Sundanese. <DT><SAMP>`sv´</SAMP> <DD> Swedish. <DT><SAMP>`sw´</SAMP> <DD> Swahili. <DT><SAMP>`ta´</SAMP> <DD> Tamil. <DT><SAMP>`te´</SAMP> <DD> Telugu. <DT><SAMP>`tg´</SAMP> <DD> Tajik. <DT><SAMP>`th´</SAMP> <DD> Thai. <DT><SAMP>`ti´</SAMP> <DD> Tigrinya. <DT><SAMP>`tk´</SAMP> <DD> Turkmen. <DT><SAMP>`tl´</SAMP> <DD> Tagalog. <DT><SAMP>`tn´</SAMP> <DD> Tswana; Setswana. <DT><SAMP>`to´</SAMP> <DD> Tonga (?). <DT><SAMP>`tr´</SAMP> <DD> Turkish. <DT><SAMP>`ts´</SAMP> <DD> Tsonga. <DT><SAMP>`tt´</SAMP> <DD> Tatar. <DT><SAMP>`tw´</SAMP> <DD> Twi. <DT><SAMP>`ty´</SAMP> <DD> Tahitian. <DT><SAMP>`ug´</SAMP> <DD> Uighur. <DT><SAMP>`uk´</SAMP> <DD> Ukrainian. <DT><SAMP>`ur´</SAMP> <DD> Urdu. <DT><SAMP>`uz´</SAMP> <DD> Uzbek. <DT><SAMP>`vi´</SAMP> <DD> Vietnamese. <DT><SAMP>`vo´</SAMP> <DD> Volapük; Volapuk. <DT><SAMP>`wa´</SAMP> <DD> Walloon. <DT><SAMP>`wo´</SAMP> <DD> Wolof. <DT><SAMP>`xh´</SAMP> <DD> Xhosa. <DT><SAMP>`yi´</SAMP> <DD> Yiddish (formerly ji). <DT><SAMP>`yo´</SAMP> <DD> Yoruba. <DT><SAMP>`za´</SAMP> <DD> Zhuang. <DT><SAMP>`zh´</SAMP> <DD> Chinese. <DT><SAMP>`zu´</SAMP> <DD> Zulu. </DL> <P><HR><P> Go to the <A HREF="gettext_1.html">first</A>, <A HREF="gettext_14.html">previous</A>, <A HREF="gettext_16.html">next</A>, <A HREF="gettext_22.html">last</A> section, <A HREF="gettext_toc.html">table of contents</A>. </BODY> </HTML>