
ISO Language Names 	Set 1 	Set 2 	Set 3 	Scope 	Type 	Endonym(s) 	Other Name(s)
[note 1] 	Notes
T 	B
Abkhazian 	ab 	abk 	abk 	Individual 	Living 	Аҧсуа; Apsua; აფსუა 	Abkhaz
Afar 	aa 	aar 	aar 	Individual 	Living 	Qafar af
Afrikaans 	af 	afr 	afr 	Individual 	Living 	Afrikaans
Akan 	ak 	aka 	aka + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Ákán 		Twi is tw/twi, Fanti is fat
Albanian 	sq 	sqi 	alb 	sqi + 4 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Shqip 	called "Albanian Phylozone" in 639-6
Amharic 	am 	amh 	amh 	Individual 	Living 	አማርኛ (Amarəñña)
Arabic 	ar 	ara 	ara + 28 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ

(al-ʿarabiyyah)
		Standard Arabic is arb
Aragonese 	an 	arg 	arg 	Individual 	Living 	Aragonés
Armenian 	hy 	hye 	arm 	hye 	Individual 	Living 	Հայերեն (Hayeren) 		ISO 639-3 code hye is for Eastern Armenian, hyw is for Western Armenian, and xcl is for Classical Armenian
Assamese 	as 	asm 	asm 	Individual 	Living 	অসমীয়া (Ôxômiya)
Avaric 	av 	ava 	ava 	Individual 	Living 	Авар мацӏ; اوار ماض (Avar maz) 	Avar
Avestan 	ae 	ave 	ave 	Individual 	Ancient 	Upastawakaēna
Aymara 	ay 	aym 	aym + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Aymara 	Aymaran
Azerbaijani 	az 	aze 	aze + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Azərbaycan dili; آذربایجان دیلی; Азәрбајҹан дили 	Azeri
Bambara 	bm 	bam 	bam 	Individual 	Living 	بَمَنَنكَن ;ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲ (Bamanankan)
Bashkir 	ba 	bak 	bak 	Individual 	Living 	Башҡорт теле; Başqort tele
Basque 	eu 	eus 	baq 	eus 	Individual 	Living 	Euskara
Belarusian 	be 	bel 	bel 	Individual 	Living 	Беларуская мова (Belaruskaâ mova)
Bengali 	bn 	ben 	ben 	Individual 	Living 	বাংলা (Bāŋlā) 	Bangla
Bislama 	bi 	bis 	bis 	Individual 	Living 	Bislama 		Language formed from English and Vanuatuan languages, with some French influence.
Bosnian 	bs 	bos 	bos 	Individual 	Living 	Босански (Bosanski)
Breton 	br 	bre 	bre 	Individual 	Living 	Brezhoneg
Bulgarian 	bg 	bul 	bul 	Individual 	Living 	Български (Bulgarski)
Burmese 	my 	mya 	bur 	mya 	Individual 	Living 	မြန်မာစာ (Mrãmācā) 	Myanmar
Catalan, Valencian 	ca 	cat 	cat 	Individual 	Living 	Català; Valencià
Chamorro 	ch 	cha 	cha 	Individual 	Living 	Finu' Chamoru
Chechen 	ce 	che 	che 	Individual 	Living 	Нохчийн мотт;

(Noxçiyn mott)
	Chechnyan; Chechnian
Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja 	ny 	nya 	nya 	Individual 	Living 	Chichewa; Chinyanja
Chinese 	zh 	zho 	chi 	zho + 16 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	中文 (Zhōngwén)

汉语; 漢語 (Hànyǔ)

Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic 	cu 	chu 	chu 	Individual 	Ancient, in use by the Eastern Orthodox Church 	Славе́нскїй ѧ҆зы́къ
Chuvash 	cv 	chv 	chv 	Individual 	Living 	Чӑвашла (Çăvaşla)
Cornish 	kw 	cor 	cor 	Individual 	Living 	Kernowek
Corsican 	co 	cos 	cos 	Individual 	Living 	Corsu
Cree 	cr 	cre 	cre + 6 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ (Nehiyawewin)
Croatian 	hr 	hrv 	hrv 	Individual 	Living 	Hrvatski 	Crovatian
Czech 	cs 	ces 	cze 	ces 	Individual 	Living 	Čeština 	Czechian
Danish 	da 	dan 	dan 	Individual 	Living 	Dansk
Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian 	dv 	div 	div 	Individual 	Living 	ދިވެހި (Dhivehi) 	Maldivian
Dutch, Flemish 	nl 	nld 	dut 	nld 	Individual 	Living 	Nederlands 		Flemish is not to be confused with the closely related West Flemish which is referred to as "Vlaams" and has the code vls in ISO 639-3
Dzongkha 	dz 	dzo 	dzo 	Individual 	Living 	རྫོང་ཁ་ (Dzongkha) 	Bhutanese
English 	en 	eng 	eng 	Individual 	Living 	English
Esperanto 	eo 	epo 	epo 	Individual 	Constructed by L.L. Zamenhof in 1887 	Esperanto
Estonian 	et 	est 	est + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Eesti keel
Ewe 	ee 	ewe 	ewe 	Individual 	Living 	Èʋegbe
Faroese 	fo 	fao 	fao 	Individual 	Living 	Føroyskt
Fijian 	fj 	fij 	fij 	Individual 	Living 	Na Vosa Vakaviti
Finnish 	fi 	fin 	fin 	Individual 	Living 	Suomi
French 	fr 	fra 	fre 	fra 	Individual 	Living 	Français
Western Frisian 	fy 	fry 	fry 	Individual 	Living 	Frysk 	West Frisian; Frisian;
Fries
Fulah 	ff 	ful 	ful + 9 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫 ;ࢻُلْࢻُلْدٜ; Fulfulde

𞤆𞤵𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪 ;ݒُلَارْ; Pulaar
	Fulani
Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic 	gd 	gla 	gla 	Individual 	Living 	Gàidhlig
Galician 	gl 	glg 	glg 	Individual 	Living 	Galego
Ganda 	lg 	lug 	lug 	Individual 	Living 	Luganda
Georgian 	ka 	kat 	geo 	kat 	Individual 	Living 	ქართული (Kharthuli)
German 	de 	deu 	ger 	deu 	Individual 	Living 	Deutsch
Greek, Modern (1453–) 	el 	ell 	gre 	ell 	Individual 	Living 	Νέα Ελληνικά; (Néa Ellêniká) 		for Ancient Greek, use the ISO 639-3 code grc
Kalaallisut, Greenlandic 	kl 	kal 	kal 	Individual 	Living 	Kalaallisut
Guarani 	gn 	grn 	grn + 5 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Avañe'ẽ
Gujarati 	gu 	guj 	guj 	Individual 	Living 	ગુજરાતી (Gujarātī)
Haitian, Haitian Creole 	ht 	hat 	hat 	Individual 	Living 	Kreyòl ayisyen
Hausa 	ha 	hau 	hau 	Individual 	Living 	هَرْشٜن هَوْس (halshen Hausa) 	Hausan
Hebrew 	he 	heb 	heb 	Individual 	Living 	עברית‎ (Ivrit) 		Modern Hebrew. Code changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, iw.[3]
Herero 	hz 	her 	her 	Individual 	Living 	Otjiherero
Hindi 	hi 	hin 	hin 	Individual 	Living 	हिन्दी (Hindī)
Hiri Motu 	ho 	hmo 	hmo 	Individual 	Living 	Hiri Motu 	Police Motu;
Hungarian 	hu 	hun 	hun 	Individual 	Living 	Magyar nyelv
Icelandic 	is 	isl 	ice 	isl 	Individual 	Living 	Íslenska
Ido 	io 	ido 	ido 	Individual 	Constructed in 1907 by Louis de Beaufront as variation of Esperanto 	Ido
Igbo 	ig 	ibo 	ibo 	Individual 	Living 	ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò
Indonesian 	id 	ind 	ind 	Individual 	Living 	bahasa Indonesia 		covered by macrolanguage ms/msa. Changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, in.[3]
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) 	ia 	ina 	ina 	Individual 	Constructed by the International Auxiliary Language Association 	Interlingua
Interlingue, Occidental 	ie 	ile 	ile 	Individual 	Constructed by Edgar de Wahl, first published in 1922 	Interlingue; Occidental
Inuktitut 	iu 	iku 	iku + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (Inuktitut)
Inupiaq 	ik 	ipk 	ipk + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Iñupiaq
Irish 	ga 	gle 	gle 	Individual 	Living 	Gaeilge
Italian 	it 	ita 	ita 	Individual 	Living 	Italiano
Japanese 	ja 	jpn 	jpn 	Individual 	Living 	日本語 (Nihongo)
Javanese 	jv 	jav 	jav 	Individual 	Living 	ꦧꦱꦗꦮ; basa Jawa
Kannada 	kn 	kan 	kan 	Individual 	Living 	ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannađa) 	Kannadan
Kanuri 	kr 	kau 	kau + 3 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	كَنُرِيِه; Kànùrí
Kashmiri 	ks 	kas 	kas 	Individual 	Living 	कॉशुर; كأشُر (Kosher)
Kazakh 	kk 	kaz 	kaz 	Individual 	Living 	Қазақша; Qazaqşa
Central Khmer 	km 	khm 	khm 	Individual 	Living 	ខេមរភាសា; (Khémôrôphéasa) 	Khmer;
Cambodian
Kikuyu, Gikuyu 	ki 	kik 	kik 	Individual 	Living 	Gĩgĩkũyũ
Kinyarwanda 	rw 	kin 	kin 	Individual 	Living 	Ikinyarwanda 	Rwandan
Kyrgyz, Kirghiz 	ky 	kir 	kir 	Individual 	Living 	Кыргыз
Komi 	kv 	kom 	kom + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Коми кыв 	Zyran; Zyrian; Komi-Zyryan
Kongo 	kg 	kon 	kon + 3 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Kikongo
Korean 	ko 	kor 	kor 	Individual 	Living 	한국어 (Hangugeo)

조선말 (Chosŏnmal)

Kuanyama, Kwanyama 	kj 	kua 	kua 	Individual 	Living 	Oshikwanyama 	Cuanhama
Kurdish 	ku 	kur 	kur + 3 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	کوردی; Kurdî
Lao 	lo 	lao 	lao 	Individual 	Living 	ພາສາລາວ (phasa Lao)
Latin 	la 	lat 	lat 	Individual 	Ancient 	Latinum
Latvian 	lv 	lav 	lav + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Latviski
Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish 	li 	lim 	lim 	Individual 	Living 	Lèmburgs
Lingala 	ln 	lin 	lin 	Individual 	Living 	Lingála 	Ngala
Lithuanian 	lt 	lit 	lit 	Individual 	Living 	Lietuviškai
Luba-Katanga 	lu 	lub 	lub 	Individual 	Living 	Kiluba 	Luba-Shaba
Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch 	lb 	ltz 	ltz 	Individual 	Living 	Lëtzebuergesch 	Luxembourgian
Macedonian 	mk 	mkd 	mac 	mkd 	Individual 	Living 	Македонски (Makedonski)
Malagasy 	mg 	mlg 	mlg + 11 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	مَلَغَسِ; Malagasy
Malay 	ms 	msa 	may 	msa + 36 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	بهاس ملايو (bahasa Melayu) 		Standard Malay is zsm, Indonesian is id/ind
Malayalam 	ml 	mal 	mal 	Individual 	Living 	മലയാളം (Malayāļã)
Maltese 	mt 	mlt 	mlt 	Individual 	Living 	Malti
Manx 	gv 	glv 	glv 	Individual 	Living 	Gaelg; Gailck
Maori 	mi 	mri 	mao 	mri 	Individual 	Living 	reo Māori
Marathi 	mr 	mar 	mar 	Individual 	Living 	मराठी (Marāṭhī) 	Maharashtran
Marshallese 	mh 	mah 	mah 	Individual 	Living 	kajin M̧ajel‌̧ 	Ebon
Mongolian 	mn 	mon 	mon + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ; Монгол хэл (Mongol xel)
Nauru 	na 	nau 	nau 	Individual 	Living 	dorerin Naoe 	Nauruan
Navajo, Navaho 	nv 	nav 	nav 	Individual 	Living 	Diné bizaad; Naabeehó bizaad
North Ndebele 	nd 	nde 	nde 	Individual 	Living 	isiNdebele; saseNyakatho; Mthwakazi Ndebele 	Northern Ndebele
South Ndebele 	nr 	nbl 	nbl 	Individual 	Living 	isiNdebele; sakwaNdzundza 	Southern Ndebele
Ndonga 	ng 	ndo 	ndo 	Individual 	Living 	Ndonga
Nepali 	ne 	nep 	nep + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	नेपाली भाषा (Nepālī bhāśā) 	Nepalese
Norwegian 	no 	nor 	nor + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Norsk 		Bokmål is nb/nob, Nynorsk is nn/nno
Norwegian Bokmål 	nb 	nob 	nob 	Individual 	Living 	Norsk Bokmål 		covered by macrolanguage no/nor
Norwegian Nynorsk 	nn 	nno 	nno 	Individual 	Living 	Norsk Nynorsk 		covered by macrolanguage no/nor
Occitan 	oc 	oci 	oci 	Individual 	Living 	Occitan; Provençal 	Provential
Ojibwa 	oj 	oji 	oji + 7 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ (Anishinaabemowin) 	Ojibwe; Ojibway; Otchipwe; Ojibwemowin
Oriya 	or 	ori 	ori + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Odia) 	Odian; Odishan
Oromo 	om 	orm 	orm + 4 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	afaan Oromoo
Ossetian, Ossetic 	os 	oss 	oss 	Individual 	Living 	дигорон Ӕвзаг

(digoron Ævzag)

Pali 	pi 	pli 	pli 	Individual 	Ancient 	Pāli
Pashto, Pushto 	ps 	pus 	pus + 3 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	پښتو (Pax̌tow)
Persian 	fa 	fas 	per 	fas + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	فارسی (Fārsiy) 	Farsi
Polish 	pl 	pol 	pol 	Individual 	Living 	Polski
Portuguese 	pt 	por 	por 	Individual 	Living 	Português
Punjabi, Panjabi 	pa 	pan 	pan 	Individual 	Living 	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ; پنجابی (Pãjābī)
Quechua 	qu 	que 	que + 43 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Runa simi; kichwa simi; Nuna shimi
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan 	ro 	ron 	rum 	ron 	Individual 	Living 	Românã 		the identifiers mo and mol for Moldavian are deprecated. They will not be assigned to different items, and recordings using these identifiers will not be invalid.
Romansh 	rm 	roh 	roh 	Individual 	Living 	Rumantsch; Rumàntsch; Romauntsch; Romontsch
Rundi 	rn 	run 	run 	Individual 	Living 	Ikirundi 	Kirundi
Russian 	ru 	rus 	rus 	Individual 	Living 	Русский язык (Russkiĭ âzyk)
Northern Sami 	se 	sme 	sme 	Individual 	Living 	Davvisámegiella
Samoan 	sm 	smo 	smo 	Individual 	Living 	gagana Sāmoa
Sango 	sg 	sag 	sag 	Individual 	Living 	yângâ tî Sängö 	Sangoic
Sanskrit 	sa 	san 	san + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Ancient 	संस्कृतम् (Saṃskṛtam)
Sardinian 	sc 	srd 	srd + 4 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Sardu
Serbian 	sr 	srp 	srp 	Individual 	Living 	Српски (Srpski) 		the ISO 639-2/T code srp deprecated the ISO 639-2/B code scc[4]
Shona 	sn 	sna 	sna 	Individual 	Living 	chiShona
Sindhi 	sd 	snd 	snd 	Individual 	Living 	سنڌي; सिन्धी (Sindhī)
Sinhala, Sinhalese 	si 	sin 	sin 	Individual 	Living 	සිංහල (Siṁhala)
Slovak 	sk 	slk 	slo 	slk 	Individual 	Living 	Slovenčina
Slovenian 	sl 	slv 	slv 	Individual 	Living 	Slovenščina 	Slovene
Somali 	so 	som 	som 	Individual 	Living 	Soomaali; 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘; سٝومالِ 	Somalian
Southern Sotho 	st 	sot 	sot 	Individual 	Living 	Sesotho
Spanish, Castilian 	es 	spa 	spa 	Individual 	Living 	Español; Castellano
Sundanese 	su 	sun 	sun 	Individual 	Living 	basa Sunda; ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ; بَاسَا سُوْندَا
Swahili 	sw 	swa 	swa + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Kiswahili; كِسوَحِيلِ
Swati 	ss 	ssw 	ssw 	Individual 	Living 	siSwati 	Swazi
Swedish 	sv 	swe 	swe 	Individual 	Living 	Svenska
Tagalog 	tl 	tgl 	tgl 	Individual 	Living 	Wikang Tagalog 		note: Filipino (Pilipino) has the code fil
Tahitian 	ty 	tah 	tah 	Individual 	Living 	reo Tahiti 		One of the Reo Mā`ohi (languages of French Polynesia)[5]
Tajik 	tg 	tgk 	tgk 	Individual 	Living 	Тоҷикӣ (Tojikī)
Tamil 	ta 	tam 	tam 	Individual 	Living 	தமிழ் (Tamiḻ) 	Tamizh
Tatar 	tt 	tat 	tat 	Individual 	Living 	Татар теле;

Tatar tele; تاتار تئلئ‎

Telugu 	te 	tel 	tel 	Individual 	Living 	తెలుగు (Telugu)
Thai 	th 	tha 	tha 	Individual 	Living 	ภาษาไทย (Phasa Thai) 	Central Thai; Siamese
Tibetan 	bo 	bod 	tib 	bod 	Individual 	Living 	བོད་སྐད་ (Bodskad);

ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་ (Lhas'iskad)
	Standard Tibetan
Tigrinya 	ti 	tir 	tir 	Individual 	Living 	ትግርኛ (Təgrəñña) 	Tigrigna
Tonga (Tonga Islands) 	to 	ton 	ton 	Individual 	Living 	lea faka-Tonga 	Tongan
Tsonga 	ts 	tso 	tso 	Individual 	Living 	Xitsonga
Tswana 	tn 	tsn 	tsn 	Individual 	Living 	Setswana 	Sechuana
Turkish 	tr 	tur 	tur 	Individual 	Living 	Türkçe
Turkmen 	tk 	tuk 	tuk 	Individual 	Living 	Türkmençe;

Түркменче; تۆرکمنچه

Twi 	tw 	twi 	twi 	Individual 	Living 	Twi 		covered by macrolanguage ak/aka
Uighur, Uyghur 	ug 	uig 	uig 	Individual 	Living 	ئۇيغۇر تىلى;

Уйғур тили; Uyƣur tili

Ukrainian 	uk 	ukr 	ukr 	Individual 	Living 	Українська (Ukraїnska)
Urdu 	ur 	urd 	urd 	Individual 	Living 	اُردُو (Urduw)
Uzbek 	uz 	uzb 	uzb + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	Ózbekça;

ўзбекча; ئوزبېچه

Venda 	ve 	ven 	ven 	Individual 	Living 	Tshivenḓa
Vietnamese 	vi 	vie 	vie 	Individual 	Living 	tiếng Việt
Volapük 	vo 	vol 	vol 	Individual 	Constructed in 1879-80 by Johann Martin Schleyer 	Volapük
Walloon 	wa 	wln 	wln 	Individual 	Living 	Walon
Welsh 	cy 	cym 	wel 	cym 	Individual 	Living 	Cymraeg
Wolof 	wo 	wol 	wol 	Individual 	Living 	وࣷلࣷفْ
Xhosa 	xh 	xho 	xho 	Individual 	Living 	isiXhosa
Sichuan Yi, Nuosu 	ii 	iii 	iii 	Individual 	Living 	ꆈꌠꉙ (Nuosuhxop) 	Northern Yi; Liangshan Yi 	standard form of the Yi languages
Yiddish 	yi 	yid 	yid + 2 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	ייִדיש (Yidiš) 		Changed in 1989 from original ISO 639:1988, ji.[3]
Yoruba 	yo 	yor 	yor 	Individual 	Living 	èdè Yorùbá
Zhuang, Chuang 	za 	zha 	zha + 16 	Macrolanguage 	Living 	話僮 (Vahcuengh)
Zulu 	zu 	zul 	zul 	Individual 	Living 	isiZulu