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# A Language Codes

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.

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

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