Language designators

A language designator is a code that represents a language. LingoHub uses the two-letter ISO 639-1 standard. This identifies a language used in many regions or a dialect used in a specific region. To specify a language used in many regions, use a language designator by itself. To specify a specific dialect, use a hyphen to combine a language designator with a region designator.

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