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' 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 Welsh Wolof Xhosa Yakut Yao Yapese Yiddish Yoruba Yupik languages Zande Zapotec Zenaga Zulu Zuni