ISO 639-1 Language Code List

ISO 639 language codes exist to identify the languages, dialects and languages scripts around the world. It is an international standardization of linguistic codes.

ISO 639 basics

ISO 639 language codes were released by ISO (International Organization for Standardization). ISO standards are the most frequently used linguistic codification - from language recognition to translation, ISO language codes have proven to be crucial for neural learning.

ISO 639 contains language designators that allow assignment of target locales for localization projects. A locale is a set that defines the language and region preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface. Usually a locale identifier includes a language code and a country or region code.

ISO 639-1 is a two-character code which serves as identifiers for major (macro) languages from the world, as well as some ancient languages.

ISO 639-1 Language Code List

The 639-1 language code list is available below.

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