GNU gettext utilities: Usual Language Codes

A.1 Usual Language Codes

For the commonly used languages, the ISO 639-1 /@w standard defines two-letter codes.

‘aa’: Afar.
‘ab’: Abkhazian.
‘ae’: Avestan.
‘af’: Afrikaans.
‘ak’: Akan.
‘am’: Amharic.
‘an’: Aragonese.
‘ar’: Arabic.
‘as’: Assamese.
‘av’: Avaric.
‘ay’: Aymara.
‘az’: Azerbaijani.
‘ba’: Bashkir.
‘be’: Belarusian.
‘bg’: Bulgarian.
‘bh’: Bihari languages.
‘bi’: Bislama.
‘bm’: Bambara.
‘bn’: Bengali.
‘bo’: Tibetan.
‘br’: Breton.
‘bs’: Bosnian.
‘ca’: Catalan; Valencian.
‘ce’: Chechen.
‘ch’: Chamorro.
‘co’: Corsican.
‘cr’: Cree.
‘cs’: Czech.
‘cu’: Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic.
‘cv’: Chuvash.
‘cy’: Welsh.
‘da’: Danish.
‘de’: German.
‘dv’: Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian.
‘dz’: Dzongkha.
‘ee’: Ewe.
‘el’: Greek, Modern (1453-).
‘en’: English.
‘eo’: Esperanto.
‘es’: Spanish; Castilian.
‘et’: Estonian.
‘eu’: Basque.
‘fa’: Persian.
‘ff’: Fulah.
‘fi’: Finnish.
‘fj’: Fijian.
‘fo’: Faroese.
‘fr’: French.
‘fy’: Western Frisian.
‘ga’: Irish.
‘gd’: Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic.
‘gl’: Galician.
‘gn’: Guarani.
‘gu’: Gujarati.
‘gv’: Manx.
‘ha’: Hausa.
‘he’: Hebrew.
‘hi’: Hindi.
‘ho’: Hiri Motu.
‘hr’: Croatian.
‘ht’: Haitian; Haitian Creole.
‘hu’: Hungarian.
‘hy’: Armenian.
‘hz’: Herero.
‘ia’: Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association).
‘id’: Indonesian.
‘ie’: Interlingue; Occidental.
‘ig’: Igbo.
‘ii’: Sichuan Yi; Nuosu.
‘ik’: Inupiak.
‘io’: Ido.
‘is’: Icelandic.
‘it’: Italian.
‘iu’: Inuktitut.
‘ja’: Japanese.
‘jv’: Javanese.
‘ka’: Georgian.
‘kg’: Kongo.
‘ki’: Kikuyu; Gikuyu.
‘kj’: Kuanyama; Kwanyama.
‘kk’: Kazakh.
‘kl’: Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.
‘km’: Central Khmer.
‘kn’: Kannada.
‘ko’: Korean.
‘kr’: Kanuri.
‘ks’: Kashmiri.
‘ku’: Kurdish.
‘kv’: Komi.
‘kw’: Cornish.
‘ky’: Kirghiz; Kyrgyz.
‘la’: Latin.
‘lb’: Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch.
‘lg’: Ganda.
‘li’: Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish.
‘ln’: Lingala.
‘lo’: Lao.
‘lt’: Lithuanian.
‘lu’: Luba-Katanga.
‘lv’: Latvian.
‘mg’: Malagasy.
‘mh’: Marshallese.
‘mi’: Maori.
‘mk’: Macedonian.
‘ml’: Malayalam.
‘mn’: Mongolian.
‘mr’: Marathi.
‘ms’: Malay.
‘mt’: Maltese.
‘my’: Burmese.
‘na’: Nauru.
‘nb’: Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål.
‘nd’: Ndebele, North; North Ndebele.
‘ne’: Nepali.
‘ng’: Ndonga.
‘nl’: Dutch; Flemish.
‘nn’: Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian.
‘no’: Norwegian.
‘nr’: Ndebele, South; South Ndebele.
‘nv’: Navajo; Navaho.
‘ny’: Chichewa; Nyanja.
‘oc’: Occitan (post 1500); Provençal.
‘oj’: Ojibwa.
‘om’: Oromo.
‘or’: Oriya.
‘os’: Ossetian; Ossetic.
‘pa’: Panjabi; Punjabi.
‘pi’: Pali.
‘pl’: Polish.
‘ps’: Pushto; Pashto.
‘pt’: Portuguese.
‘qu’: Quechua.
‘rm’: Romansh.
‘rn’: Rundi.
‘ro’: Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan.
‘ru’: Russian.
‘rw’: Kinyarwanda.
‘sa’: Sanskrit.
‘sc’: Sardinian.
‘sd’: Sindhi.
‘se’: Northern Sami.
‘sg’: Sango.
‘si’: Sinhala; Sinhalese.
‘sk’: Slovak.
‘sl’: Slovenian.
‘sm’: Samoan.
‘sn’: Shona.
‘so’: Somali.
‘sq’: Albanian.
‘sr’: Serbian.
‘ss’: Swati.
‘st’: Sotho, Southern.
‘su’: Sundanese.
‘sv’: Swedish.
‘sw’: Swahili.
‘ta’: Tamil.
‘te’: Telugu.
‘tg’: Tajik.
‘th’: Thai.
‘ti’: Tigrinya.
‘tk’: Turkmen.
‘tl’: Tagalog.
‘tn’: Tswana.
‘to’: Tonga (Tonga Islands).
‘tr’: Turkish.
‘ts’: Tsonga.
‘tt’: Tatar.
‘tw’: Twi.
‘ty’: Tahitian.
‘ug’: Uighur; Uyghur.
‘uk’: Ukrainian.
‘ur’: Urdu.
‘uz’: Uzbek.
‘ve’: Venda.
‘vi’: Vietnamese.
‘vo’: Volapük.
‘wa’: Walloon.
‘wo’: Wolof.
‘xh’: Xhosa.
‘yi’: Yiddish.
‘yo’: Yoruba.
‘za’: Zhuang; Chuang.
‘zh’: Chinese.
‘zu’: Zulu.