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 |  |
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 |  |