ISO 639-2 Language Code Types Created by Tom Habing,
thabing@uiuc.edu XML Schema which enumerates the allowable ISO639-2 three-letter
language codes (as of June 24, 2002) There are five named simple type which can be used
by importing schemas: iso639-2:CodeType which simply enforces the ISO 639-2 syntax to
three lower-case Latin letters [a-z][a-z][a-z] iso639-2:RegisteredCodeType which
contains all codes, both bibliographic, terminology, and local use
iso639-2:BibliographicCodeType which contains only bibliographic codes (local use codes
not included) iso639-2:TerminologyCodeType which contains only terminology codes (local
use codes not included) osi639-2:LocalUseCodeType which contains codes for local use
'qaa-qtz'. Anpassung 14-11-12 Code "hsb" ergaenzt.
ISO 639-2 Language Code Types
Tom Habing, thabing@uiuc.edu
2002-06-24
http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/
Three
lower-case Latin-letters
Reserved for local use
Abkhazian
Achinese
Acoli
Adangme
Afar
Afrihili
Afrikaans
Afro-Asiatic (Other)
Akan
Akkadian
Albanian
Aleut
Algonquian languages
Altaic (Other)
Amharic
Apache languages
Arabic
Aramaic
Arapaho
Araucanian
Arawak
Armenian
Artificial (Other)
Assamese
Asturian, Bable
Athapascan languages
Australian languages
Austronesian (Other)
Avaric
Avestan
Awadhi
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Balinese
Baltic (Other)
Baluchi
Bambara
Bamileke languages
Banda
Bantu (Other)
Basa
Bashkir
Basque
Batak (Indonesia)
Beja
Belarusian
Bemba
Bengali
Berber (Other)
Bhojpuri
Bihari
Bikol
Bini
Bislama;
Bokmål, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål
Bosnian
Braj
Breton
Buginese
Bulgarian
Buriat
Burmese
Caddo
Carib
Castilian, Spanish
Catalan
Caucasian (Other)
Cebuano
Celtic (Other)
Central American Indian (Other)
Chagatai
Chamic languages
Chamorro
Chechen
Cherokee
Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Cheyenne
Chibcha
Chinese
Chinook jargon
Chipewyan
Choctaw
Chuang, Zhuang
Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, Old
Slavonic
Chuukese
Chuvash
Coptic
Cornish
Corsican
Cree
Creek
Creoles and pidgins(Other)
Creoles and pidgins, English-based (Other)
Creoles and pidgins, French-based (Other)
Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
Croatian
Cushitic (Other)
Czech
Dakota
Danish
Dayak
Delaware
Dinka
Divehi
Dogri
Dogrib
Dravidian (Other)
Duala
Dutch
Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
Dyula
Dzongkha
Efik
Egyptian (Ancient)
Ekajuk
Elamite
English
English, Middle (1100-1500)
English, Old (ca.450-1100)
Esperanto
Estonian
Ewe
Ewondo
Fang
Fanti
Faroese
Fijian
Finnish
Finno-Ugrian (Other)
Fon
French
French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
French, Old (842-ca.1400)
Frisian
Friulian
Fulah
Ga
Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
Gallegan
Ganda
Gayo
Gbaya
Geez
Georgian
German
German, Low; Saxon, Low; Low German; Low Saxon
German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
German, Old High (ca.750-1050)
Germanic (Other)
Gikuyu, Kikuyu
Gilbertese
Gondi
Gorontalo
Gothic
Grebo
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Guarani
Gujarati
Gwich´in
Haida
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Herero
Hiligaynon
Himachali
Hindi
Hiri Motu
Hittite
Hmong
Hungarian
Hupa
Iban
Icelandic
Ido
Igbo
Ijo
Iloko
Inari Sami
Indic (Other)
Indo-European (Other)
Indonesian
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
Association)
Interlingue
Inuktitut
Inupiaq
Iranian (Other)
Irish
Irish, Middle (900-1200)
Irish, Old (to 900)
Iroquoian languages
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Judeo-Arabic
Judeo-Persian
Kabyle
Kachin
Kalaallisut
Kamba
Kannada
Kanuri
Kara-Kalpak
Karen
Kashmiri
Kawi
Kazakh
Khasi
Khmer
Khoisan (Other)
Khotanese
Kimbundu
Kinyarwanda
Kirghiz
Komi
Kongo
Konkani
Korean
Kosraean
Kpelle
Kru
Kuanyama, Kwanyama
Kumyk
Kurdish
Kurukh
Kutenai
Ladino
Lahnda
Lamba
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Letzeburgesch, Luxembourgish
Lezghian
Lingala
Lithuanian
Lozi
Luba-Katanga
Luba-Lulua
Luiseno
Lule Sami
Lunda
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
Lushai
Macedonian
Madurese
Magahi
Maithili
Makasar
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Manchu
Mandar
Mandingo
Manipuri
Manobo languages
Manx
Maori
Marathi
Mari
Marshallese
Marwari
Masai
Mayan languages
Mende
Micmac
Minangkabau
Miscellaneous languages
Mohawk
Moldavian
Mon-Khmer (Other)
Mongo
Mongolian
Mossi
Multiple languages
Munda languages
Nahuatl
Nauru
Navaho, Navajo
Ndebele, North; North Ndebele
Ndebele, South; South Ndebele
Ndonga
Nepali
Newari
Nias
Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
Nilo-Saharan (Other)
Niuean
Norse, Old
North American Indian (Other)
Northern Sami
Norwegian
Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian
Nubian languages
Nyamwezi
Nyankole
Nyoro
Nzima
Occitan (post 1500), Provençal
Ojibwa
Oriya
Oromo
Osage
Ossetian, Ossetic
Otomian languages
Pahlavi
Palauan
Pali
Pampanga
Pangasinan
Panjabi
Papiamento
Papuan (Other)
Persian
Persian, Old (ca.600-400)
Philippine (Other)
Phoenician
Pohnpeian
Polish
Portuguese
Prakrit languages
Provençal, Old (to 1500)
Pushto
Quechua
Raeto-Romance
Rajasthani
Rapanui
Rarotongan
Romance (Other)
Romanian
Romany
Rundi
Russian
Salishan languages
Samaritan Aramaic
Sami languages (Other)
Samoan
Sandawe
Sango
Sanskrit
Santali
Sardinian
Sasak
Scots
Selkup
Semitic (Other)
Serbian
Serer
Shan
Shona
Sidamo
Sign languages
Siksika
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Sino-Tibetan (Other)
Siouan languages
Skolt Sami
Slave (Athapascan)
Slavic (Other)
Slovak
Slovenian
Sogdian
Somali
Songhai
Soninke
Sorbian languages
Sotho, Northern
Sotho, Southern
South American Indian (Other)
Southern Sami
Sukuma
Sumerian
Sundanese
Susu
Swahili
Swati
Swedish
Syriac
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tai (Other)
Tajik
Tamashek
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Tereno
Tetum
Thai
Tibetan
Tigre
Tigrinya
Timne
Tiv
Tlingit
Tok Pisin
Tokelau
Tonga (Nyasa)
Tonga (Tonga Islands)
Tsimshian
Tsonga
Tswana
Tumbuka
Tupi languages
Turkish
Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
Turkmen
Tuvalu
Tuvinian
Twi
Ugaritic
Uighur
Ukrainian
Umbundu
Undetermined
Urdu
Uzbek
Vai
Venda
Vietnamese
Volapük
Votic
Wakashan languages
Walamo
Walloon
Waray
Washo
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yakut
Yao
Yapese
Yiddish
Yoruba
Yupik languages
Zande
Zapotec
Zenaga
Zulu
Zuni
Abkhazian
Achinese
Acoli
Adangme
Afar
Afrihili
Afrikaans
Afro-Asiatic (Other)
Akan
Akkadian
Albanian
Aleut
Algonquian languages
Altaic (Other)
Amharic
Apache languages
Arabic
Aramaic
Arapaho
Araucanian
Arawak
Armenian
Artificial (Other)
Assamese
Asturian, Bable
Athapascan languages
Australian languages
Austronesian (Other)
Avaric
Avestan
Awadhi
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Balinese
Baltic (Other)
Baluchi
Bambara
Bamileke languages
Banda
Bantu (Other)
Basa
Bashkir
Basque
Batak (Indonesia)
Beja
Belarusian
Bemba
Bengali
Berber (Other)
Bhojpuri
Bihari
Bikol
Bini
Bislama;
Bokmål, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål
Bosnian
Braj
Breton
Buginese
Bulgarian
Buriat
Burmese
Caddo
Carib
Castilian, Spanish
Catalan
Caucasian (Other)
Cebuano
Celtic (Other)
Central American Indian (Other)
Chagatai
Chamic languages
Chamorro
Chechen
Cherokee
Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
Cheyenne
Chibcha
Chinese
Chinook jargon
Chipewyan
Choctaw
Chuang, Zhuang
Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, Old
Slavonic
Chuukese
Chuvash
Coptic
Cornish
Corsican
Cree
Creek
Creoles and pidgins(Other)
Creoles and pidgins, English-based (Other)
Creoles and pidgins, French-based (Other)
Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other)
Croatian
Cushitic (Other)
Czech
Dakota
Danish
Dayak
Delaware
Dinka
Divehi
Dogri
Dogrib
Dravidian (Other)
Duala
Dutch
Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
Dyula
Dzongkha
Efik
Egyptian (Ancient)
Ekajuk
Elamite
English
English, Middle (1100-1500)
English, Old (ca.450-1100)
Esperanto
Estonian
Ewe
Ewondo
Fang
Fanti
Faroese
Fijian
Finnish
Finno-Ugrian (Other)
Fon
French
French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)
French, Old (842-ca.1400)
Frisian
Friulian
Fulah
Ga
Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
Gallegan
Ganda
Gayo
Gbaya
Geez
Georgian
German
German, Low; Saxon, Low; Low German; Low Saxon
German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
German, Old High (ca.750-1050)
Germanic (Other)
Gikuyu, Kikuyu
Gilbertese
Gondi
Gorontalo
Gothic
Grebo
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Greek, Modern (1453-)
Guarani
Gujarati
Gwich´in
Haida
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Herero
Hiligaynon
Himachali
Hindi
Hiri Motu
Hittite
Hmong
Hungarian
Hupa
Iban
Icelandic
Ido
Igbo
Ijo
Iloko
Inari Sami
Indic (Other)
Indo-European (Other)
Indonesian
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
Association)
Interlingue
Inuktitut
Inupiaq
Iranian (Other)
Irish
Irish, Middle (900-1200)
Irish, Old (to 900)
Iroquoian languages
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Judeo-Arabic
Judeo-Persian
Kabyle
Kachin
Kalaallisut
Kamba
Kannada
Kanuri
Kara-Kalpak
Karen
Kashmiri
Kawi
Kazakh
Khasi
Khmer
Khoisan (Other)
Khotanese
Kimbundu
Kinyarwanda
Kirghiz
Komi
Kongo
Konkani
Korean
Kosraean
Kpelle
Kru
Kuanyama, Kwanyama
Kumyk
Kurdish
Kurukh
Kutenai
Ladino
Lahnda
Lamba
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Letzeburgesch, Luxembourgish
Lezghian
Lingala
Lithuanian
Lozi
Luba-Katanga
Luba-Lulua
Luiseno
Lule Sami
Lunda
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
Lushai
Macedonian
Madurese
Magahi
Maithili
Makasar
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Manchu
Mandar
Mandingo
Manipuri
Manobo languages
Manx
Maori
Marathi
Mari
Marshallese
Marwari
Masai
Mayan languages
Mende
Micmac
Minangkabau
Miscellaneous languages
Mohawk
Moldavian
Mon-Khmer (Other)
Mongo
Mongolian
Mossi
Multiple languages
Munda languages
Nahuatl
Nauru
Navaho, Navajo
Ndebele, North; North Ndebele
Ndebele, South; South Ndebele
Ndonga
Nepali
Newari
Nias
Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
Nilo-Saharan (Other)
Niuean
Norse, Old
North American Indian (Other)
Northern Sami
Norwegian
Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian
Nubian languages
Nyamwezi
Nyankole
Nyoro
Nzima
Occitan (post 1500), Provençal
Ojibwa
Oriya
Oromo
Osage
Ossetian, Ossetic
Otomian languages
Pahlavi
Palauan
Pali
Pampanga
Pangasinan
Panjabi
Papiamento
Papuan (Other)
Persian
Persian, Old (ca.600-400)
Philippine (Other)
Phoenician
Pohnpeian
Polish
Portuguese
Prakrit languages
Provençal, Old (to 1500)
Pushto
Quechua
Raeto-Romance
Rajasthani
Rapanui
Rarotongan
Romance (Other)
Romanian
Romany
Rundi
Russian
Salishan languages
Samaritan Aramaic
Sami languages (Other)
Samoan
Sandawe
Sango
Sanskrit
Santali
Sardinian
Sasak
Scots
Selkup
Semitic (Other)
Serbian
Serer
Shan
Shona
Sidamo
Sign languages
Siksika
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Sino-Tibetan (Other)
Siouan languages
Skolt Sami
Slave (Athapascan)
Slavic (Other)
Slovak
Slovenian
Sogdian
Somali
Songhai
Soninke
Sorbian languages
Sotho, Northern
Sotho, Southern
South American Indian (Other)
Southern Sami
Sukuma
Sumerian
Sundanese
Susu
Swahili
Swati
Swedish
Syriac
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tai (Other)
Tajik
Tamashek
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Tereno
Tetum
Thai
Tibetan
Tigre
Tigrinya
Timne
Tiv
Tlingit
Tok Pisin
Tokelau
Tonga (Nyasa)
Tonga (Tonga Islands)
Tsimshian
Tsonga
Tswana
Tumbuka
Tupi languages
Turkish
Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)
Turkmen
Tuvalu
Tuvinian
Twi
Ugaritic
Uighur
Ukrainian
Umbundu
Undetermined
Urdu
Uzbek
Vai
Venda
Vietnamese
Volapük
Votic
Wakashan languages
Walamo
Walloon
Waray
Washo
Achinese
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yakut
Yao
Yapese
Yiddish
Yoruba
Yupik languages
Zande
Zapotec
Zenaga
Zulu
Zuni