Dealing with Data Types
- Jul 26, 2002
This chapter is from the book
Managing Language Codes
Language codes are the two-letter codes used to define a document's language. They are specifically useful when internationalizing documents. Language codes are standardized by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and are case-insensitive.
Table 3.4 defines the standardized language codes available for use in HTML and XHTML.
Table 3.4 ISO 639 Two-Character Language Codes
|
Language |
Code |
Language |
Code |
|
Abkhazian |
AB |
Lithuanian |
LT |
|
Afan (Oromo) |
OM |
Macedonian |
MK |
|
Afar |
AA |
Malagasy |
MG |
|
Afrikaans |
AF |
Malay |
MS |
|
Albanian |
SQ |
Malayalam |
ML |
|
Amharic |
AM |
Maltese |
MT |
|
Arabic |
AR |
Maori |
MI |
|
Armenian |
HY |
Marathi |
MR |
|
Assamese |
AS |
Moldavian |
MO |
|
Aymara |
AY |
Mongolian |
MN |
|
Azerbaijani |
AZ |
Nauru |
NA |
|
Bashkir |
BA |
Nepali |
NE |
|
Basque |
EU |
Norwegian |
NO |
|
Bengali; Bangla |
BN |
Occitan |
OC |
|
Bhutani |
DZ |
Oriya |
OR |
|
Bihari |
BH |
Pashto; Pushto |
PS |
|
Bislama |
BI |
Persian (Farsi) |
FA |
|
Breton |
BR |
Polish |
PL |
|
Bulgarian |
BG |
Portuguese |
PT |
|
Burmese |
MY |
Punjabi |
PA |
|
Byelorussian |
BE |
Quechua |
QU |
|
Cambodian |
KM |
Rhaeto-Romance |
RM |
|
Catalan |
CA |
Romanian |
RO |
|
Chinese |
ZH |
Russian |
RU |
|
Corsican |
CO |
Samoan |
SM |
|
Croatian |
HR |
Sangho |
SG |
|
Czech |
CS |
Sanskrit |
SA |
|
Danish |
DA |
Scots Gaelic |
GD |
|
Dutch |
NL |
Serbian |
SR |
|
English |
EN |
Serbo-Croatian |
SH |
|
Esperanto |
EO |
Sesotho |
ST |
|
Estonian |
ET |
Setswana |
TN |
|
Faroese |
FO |
Shona |
SN |
|
Fiji |
FJ |
Sindhi |
SD |
|
Finnish |
FI |
Singhalese |
SI |
|
French |
FR |
Siswati |
SS |
|
Frisian |
FY |
Slovak |
SK |
|
Galician |
GL |
Slovenian |
SL |
|
Georgian |
KA |
Somali |
SO |
|
German |
DE |
Spanish |
ES |
|
Greek |
EL |
Sudanese |
SU |
|
Greenlandic |
KL |
Swahili |
SW |
|
Guarani |
GN |
Swedish |
SV |
|
Gujarati |
GU |
Tagalog |
TL |
|
Hausa |
HA |
Tajik |
TG |
|
Hebrew |
HE |
Tamil |
TA |
|
Hindi |
HI |
Tatar |
TT |
|
Hungarian |
HU |
Telugu |
TE |
|
Icelandic |
IS |
Thai |
TH |
|
Indonesian |
ID |
Tibetan |
BO |
|
Interlingua |
IA |
Tigrinya |
TI |
|
Interlingue |
IE |
Tonga |
TO |
|
Inuktitut |
IU |
Tsonga |
TS |
|
Inupiak |
IK |
Turkish |
TR |
|
Irish |
GA |
Turkmen |
TK |
|
Italian |
IT |
Twi |
TW |
|
Japanese |
JA |
Uigur |
UG |
|
Javanese |
JV |
Ukrainian |
UK |
|
Kannada |
KN |
Urdu |
UR |
|
Kashmiri |
KS |
Uzbek |
UZ |
|
Kazakh |
KK |
Vietnamese |
VI |
|
Kinyarwanda |
RW |
Volapuk |
VO |
|
Kirghiz |
KY |
Welsh |
CY |
|
Kurundi |
RN |
Wolof |
WO |
|
Korean |
KO |
Xhosa |
XH |
|
Kurdish |
KU |
Yiddish |
YI |
|
Laothian |
LO |
Yoruba |
YO |
|
Latin |
LA |
Zhuang |
ZA |
|
Latvian; Lettish |
LV |
Zulu |
ZU |
|
Lingala |
LN |
|
|
NOTE
Source: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html.
For more information on ISO 639 language codes, please see the International Standards Organization Web site, http://www.iso.org.
