ab

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Abkhaz.


ik

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Inupiaq.


fa

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Persian.


eo

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Esperanto.


os

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ossetian.


fy

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for West Frisian.


vi

From either an Abbreviation of English Vietnamese or Vietnamese Tiếng Việt

abbrev

English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Vietnamese</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Vietnamese.


is

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Icelandic.


te

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Telugu.


de

Coordinate term: deu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for German.


in

(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-1 language code for Indonesian.


be

English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Belarusian</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Belarusian.


mi

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Maori.


or

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Odia.


en

clipping

English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">English</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for English.


it

Italian <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">italiano</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Italian.


my

Abbreviation of English Myanmar, formerly Burma, where Burmese is spoken.

abbrev

English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Myanmar</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Burmese.


pi

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Pali.


el

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Greek.


om

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Oromo.


hi

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hindi.


to

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tongan.


as

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Assamese.


ia

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Interlingua.


an

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Aragonese.


so

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Somali.


he

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hebrew.


ba

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bashkir.


et

Possibly from either an Abbreviation of English Estonian or Estonian eesti

English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Estonian</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Estonian.


bi

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bislama.


bo

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tibetan.


aa

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Afar.


ha

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hausa.


km

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Khmer.


ln

(mathematics): Probably from New Latin logarithmus naturalis (“natural logarithm”). At the time of the discovery of logarithms and e, Latin was the language of science.

der

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Lingala.


kl

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Greenlandic.


mg

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Malagasy.


kg

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kongo.


ml

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Malayalam.


ta

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tamil.


sn

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Shona.


sg

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sango.


mt

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Maltese.


li

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Limburgish.


lu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Luba-Katanga.


co

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Corsican.


ce

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Chechen.


eu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Basque.


ca

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Catalan.


ga

clipping

Irish <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga">Gaeilge</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Irish.


am

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Amharic.


ho

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hiri Motu.


ne

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Nepali.


es

abbrev

Spanish <i class="Latn mention" lang="es">español</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Spanish.


ar

English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Arabic</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Arabic.


ti

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tigrinya.


la

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Latin.


pa

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Punjabi.


se

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Northern Sami.


si

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sinhalese.


fo

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Faroese.


ee

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ewe.


yi

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Yiddish.


ky

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kyrgyz.


zu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Zulu.


ny

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Chichewa.


ty

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tahitian.


(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Nauruan.


ja

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Japanese.


da

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Danish.


ng

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ndonga.


av

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Avar.


io

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ido.


sa

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sanskrit.


ko

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Korean.


ett

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Etruscan.


lo

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Lao.


su

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sundanese.


ay

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Aymara.


az

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Azerbaijani.


za

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Zhuang.


yo

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Yoruba.


id

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Indonesian.


ur

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Urdu.


fi

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Finnish.


ii

From the transcription of Chinese 彝 (yí).

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Nuosu.


ku

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kurdish.


ki

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kikuyu.


nl

Clipping of Dutch Nederlands, the name of the Dutch language in Dutch.

clipping

Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">Nederlands</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Dutch.


st

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sotho.


pl

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Polish.


zh

Clipping of Hanyu Pinyin zhōngwén, from Mandarin 中文 (Zhōngwén, “Chinese language”).

Hanyu Pinyin <i class="Latn mention" lang="cmn">zhōngwén</i>

der

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Chinese.


sl

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Slovene.


ps

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Pashto.


lb

(computer science): From New Latin logarithmus binarii (“binary logarithm”).

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Luxembourgish.


wo

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Wolof.


ro

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Romanian.


bg

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bulgarian.


ie

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Interlingue.


kk

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kazakh.


ka

The etymology for the ISO 639-1 code for Georgian is from Georgian ქართული ენა (kartuli ena).

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Georgian.


kr

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kanuri.


sc

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sardinian.


bh

(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-1 language code for Bihari.


tl

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tagalog.


nd

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Northern Ndebele.


gd

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Scottish Gaelic.


pt

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Portuguese.


cs

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Czech.


rn

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kirundi.


sr

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Serbian.


sm

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Samoan.


br

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Breton.


mn

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Mongolian.


tg

In the sense of ISO 639-1 code, from Italian tagico.

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tajik.


nb

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Norwegian Bokmål.


ms

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Malay.


cu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Old Church Slavonic.


mo

(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-1 language code for Moldovan.


hr

Clipping of Serbo-Croatian hrvatski / хрватски

clipping

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Croatian.


ch

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Chamorro.


hu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hungarian.


tr

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Turkish.


sh

(Serbo-Croatian): From Serbo-Croatian srpskohrvatski.

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Serbo-Croatian.


uz

abbrev

English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Uzbek</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Uzbek.


iu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Inuktitut.


ug

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Uyghur.


iw

(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-1 language code for Hebrew.


vo

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Volapük.


bn

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bengali.


af

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Afrikaans.


ff

The "and following" sense is an abbreviation of Latin folio (“on the (next) page”), ablative of folium (“leaf, page”). The "folios" that follow can be pages, paragraphs, Bible verses, or other sections of written material.

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Fula.


ve

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Venda.


ae

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Avestan.


tt

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tatar.


ji

(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-1 language code for Yiddish.


wa

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Walloon.


ak

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Akan.


arz

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Egyptian Arabic.


gu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Gujarati.


ru

Most likely from clipping of English Russian or Russian ру́сский (rússkij)

clipping

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Russian.


sd

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sindhi.


nr

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Southern Ndebele.


gl

Abbreviations.
* (Galician): Abbreviation of Galician galego m (“Galician language”, noun), from Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin gallaecus (“Galician”, adjective).

der

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Galician.


bs

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bosnian.


ks

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kashmiri.


lv

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Latvian.


sk

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Slovak.


sw

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Swahili.


hy

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Armenian.


oc

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Occitan.


cy

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Welsh.


no

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Norwegian.


qu

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Quechua.


ht

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Haitian Creole.


oj

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ojibwe.


lg

(mathematics and computer science): Abbreviation of Latin logarithmus generalis.

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Luganda.


mk

Likely from Abbreviation of Macedonian македонски (makedonski)

abbrev

Macedonian <i class="Cyrl mention" lang="mk">македонски</i> (makedonski)

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Macedonian.


nn

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Norwegian Nynorsk.


rm

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Romansch.


mr

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Marathi.


dz

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Dzongkha.


dv

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Dhivehi.


fj

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Fijian.


bm

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Bambara.


gn

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Guaraní.


cr

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Cree.


gv

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Manx.


fr

clipping

French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">français</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for French.


lt

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Lithuanian.


kn

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kannada.


sq

From Albanian shqip (“(in) Albanian”, adjective, adverb).

der

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Albanian.


sv

clipping

Swedish <i class="Latn mention" lang="sv">svenska</i>

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Swedish.


tk

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Turkmen.


mh

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Marshallese.


rw

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Rwanda-Rundi.


ss

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Swazi.


ig

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Igbo.


xh

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Xhosa.


cv

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Chuvash.


uk

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ukrainian.


tn

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tswana.


th

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Thai.


tw

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Twi.


ts

ẕ

Hebrew Academy 1953 transliteration scheme

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tsonga.


kw

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Cornish.


jv

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Javanese.


jw

(international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-1 language code for Javanese.


kj

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kwanyama.


nv

Most likely from either English Navajo or directly from Spanish navajo, themselves both from Tewa navahu.

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Navajo.


kv

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Komi.


hz

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Herero.


gyb

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Garus.