Native Language Codes

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Code	Language Name	Code	Language Name	Code	Language Name	Code	Language Name
A		E		L		S
aar	Afar	efi	Efik	lad	Ladino	sac	Sac and Fox
abk	Abkhaz	egy	Egyptian	lah	Lahnda	sad	Sandawe
ace	Achinese	eka	Ekajuk	lam	Lamba	sag	Sango (Ubangi Creole)
ach	Acoli	elx	Elamite	lao	Lao	sah	Yakut
ada	Adangme	eng	English	lat	Latin	sai	South American Indian (Other)
ady	Adygei	enm	English, Middle (1100‐1500)	lav	Latvian	sal	Salishan languages
afa	Afroasiatic (Other)	epo	Esperanto	lez	Lezgian	sam	Samaritan Aramaic
afh	Afrihili (Artificial language)	esk	Eskimo languages (Discontinued)	lim	Limburgish	san	Sanskrit
afr	Afrikaans	est	Estonian	lin	Lingala	sas	Sasak
ajm	Aljamía (Discontinued)	eth	Ethiopic (Discontinued)	lit	Lithuanian	sat	Santali
aka	Akan	ewe	Ewe	lol	Mongo‐Nkundu	scc	Serbian
akk	Akkadian	ewo	Ewondo	loz	Lozi	sco	Scots
alb	Albanian			ltz	Letzeburgesch	scr	Croatian
ale	Aleut	F	Return to Top of Page	lua	Luba‐Lulua	sel	Selkup
alg	Algonquian (Other)	fan	Fang	lub	Luba‐Katanga	sem	Semitic (Other)
amh	Amharic	fao	Faroese	lug	Ganda	shn	Shan
ang	English, Old (ca. 450‐1100)	fat	Fanti	lui	Luiseño	sid	Sidamo
apa	Apache languages	fij	Fijian	lun	Lunda	sin	Sinhalese
apk	Kiowa	fin	Finnish	luo	Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)	sio	Siouan (Other)
ara	Arabic	fiu	Finno‐Ugrian (Other)	lus	Lushai	sit	Sino‐Tibetan (Other)
arc	Aramaic	fon	Fon			sjw	Shawnee
arg	Aragonese Spanish	fre	French	M	Return to Top of Page	sla	Slavic (Other)
arm	Armenian	fry	Frisian	mac	Macedonian	slo	Slovak
arn	Mapuche	ful	Fula	mad	Madurese	slv	Slovenian
arp	Arapaho	fur	Friulian	mag	Magahi	sma	Southern Sami
art	Artificial (Other)			mah	Marshallese	sme	Northern Sami
arw	Arawak	G	Return to Top of Page	mai	Maithili	smi	Sami
asm	Assamese	gaa	Gã	mak	Makasar	smj	Lule Sami
ast	Bable	gal	Oromo	mal	Malayalam	smn	Inari Sami
ath	Athapascan (Other)	gay	Gayo	man	Mandingo	smo	Samoan
aus	Australian languages	gba	Gbaya	mao	Maori	sms	Skolt Sami
ava	Avaric	gem	Germanic (Other)	map	Austronesian (Other)	sna	Shona
ave	Avestan	geo	Georgian	mar	Marathi	snd	Sindhi
awa	Awadhi	ger	German	mas	Masai	snk	Soninke
aym	Aymara	gez	Ethiopic	may	Malay	sog	Sogdian
aze	Azerbaijani	gil	Gilbertese	mdr	Mandar	som	Somali
		gla	Scottish Gaelic	men	Mende	son	Songhai
B	Return to Top of Page	gle	Irish	mia	Miami	sot	Sotho
bad	Banda	glg	Galician	mic	Micmac	spa	Spanish
bai	Bamileke languages	glv	Manx	min	Minangkabau	srd	Sardinian
bak	Bashkir	gon	Gondi	mis	Miscellaneous languages	srr	Serer
bal	Baluchi	gor	Gorontalo	mkh	Mon‐Khmer (Other)	ssa	Nilo‐Saharan (Other)
bam	Bambara	got	Gothic	mlg	Malagasy	ssw	Swazi
ban	Balinese	grb	Grebo	mlt	Maltese	suk	Sukuma
baq	Basque	gre	Greek, Modern (1453‐ )	mnc	Manchu	sun	Sundanese
bas	Basa	grn	Guarani	mni	Manipuri	sus	Susu
bat	Baltic (Other)	guj	Gujarati	mno	Manobo languages	sux	Sumerian
bej	Beja	gwi	Gwich'in	moh	Mohawk	swa	Swahili
bel	Belarusian			mol	Moldavian	swe	Swedish
bem	Bemba	H	Return to Top of Page	mon	Mongolian	syr	Syriac
ben	Bengali	hai	Haida	mos	Mooré
ber	Berber (Other)	hat	Haitian French Creole	mun	Munda (Other)	T	Return to Top of Page
bho	Bhojpuri	hau	Hausa	mus	Muskogee-Seminole, Creek	tah	Tahitian
bih	Bihari	haw	Hawaiian	mwr	Marwari	tai	Tai (Other)
bik	Bikol	heb	Hebrew	myn	Mayan languages	tam	Tamil
bin	Edo	her	Herero			tat	Tatar
bis	Bislama	hil	Hiligaynon	N	Return to Top of Page	tel	Telugu
bla	Blackfoot	him	Himachali	nah	Nahuatl	tem	Temne
bla	Siksika	hin	Hindi	nai	North American Indian (Other)	ter	Terena
bnt	Bantu (Other)	hit	Hittite	nap	Neapolitan Italian	tet	Tetum
bos	Bosnian	hmn	Hmong	nau	Nauru	tgk	Tajik
bra	Braj	hmo	Hiri Motu	nav	Navajo	tgl	Tagalog
bre	Breton	hun	Hungarian	nbl	Ndebele (South Africa)	tha	Thai
btk	Batak	hup	Hupa	nde	Ndebele (Zimbabwe)	tib	Tibetan
bua	Buriat			ndo	Ndonga	tig	Tigré
bug	Bugis	I	Return to Top of Page	nds	Low German	tir	Tigrinya
bul	Bulgarian	iba	Iban	nep	Nepali	tiv	Tiv
bur	Burmese	ibo	Igbo (Ibo)	new	Newari	tkl	Tokelauan
		ice	Icelandic	nia	Nias	tli	Tlingit
C	Return to Top of Page	ido	Ido	nic	Niger‐Kordofanian (Other)	tmh	Tamashek
cad	Caddo	iii	Sichuan Yi	niu	Niuean	tog	Tonga (Nyasa)
cai	Central American Indian (Other)	ijo	Ijo	nno	Norwegian (Nynorsk)	ton	Tongan
cam	Khmer (Discontinued)	iku	Inuktitut	nob	Norwegian (Bokmål)	tpi	Tok Pisin
car	Carib	ile	Interlingue	nog	Nogai	tqw	Tonkawa
cat	Catalan	ilo	Iloko	non	Old Norse	tsi	Tsimshian
cau	Caucasian (Other)	inc	Indic (Other)	nor	Norwegian	tsn	Tswana
ceb	Cebuano	ind	Indonesian	nso	Northern Sotho	tso	Tsonga
cel	Celtic (Other)	ine	Indo‐European (Other)	nub	Nubian languages	tuk	Turkmen
cha	Chamorro	inh	Ingush	nya	Nyanja	tum	Tumbuka
chb	Chibcha	ipk	Inupiaq	nym	Nyamwezi	tup	Tupi languages
che	Chechen	ira	Iranian (Other)	nyn	Nyankole	tur	Turkish
chg	Chagatai	iro	Iroquoian (Other)	nyo	Nyoro	tut	Altaic (Other)
chh	Chinook	ita	Italian	nzi	Nzima	tvl	Tuvaluan
chi	Chinese					twi	Twi
chk	Truk	J	Return to Top of Page	O	Return to Top of Page	tyv	Tuvinian
chm	Mari	jam	Patois	oci	Occitan (post‐1500)
chn	Chinook jargon	jav	Javanese	oji	Ojibwa	U	Return to Top of Page
cho	Choctaw	jpn	Japanese	oma	Omaha-Ponca	udm	Udmurt
chp	Chipewyan	jpr	Judeo‐Persian	ori	Oriya	uga	Ugaritic
chr	Cherokee	jrb	Judeo‐Arabic	orm	Oromo (Galla)	uig	Uighur
chu	Church Slavic			osa	Osage	ukr	Ukrainian
chv	Chuvash	K	Return to Top of Page	oss	Ossetic	umb	Umbundu
chy	Cheyenne	kaa	Kara‐Kalpak	ota	Turkish, Ottoman	urd	Urdu
cic	Chickasaw	kab	Kabyle	oto	Otomian languages	uzb	Uzbek
ciw	Chippewa	kac	Kachin	otw	Ottawa
cmc	Chamic languages	kal	Kalâtdlisut			V	Return to Top of Page
com	Comanche	kam	Kamba	P	Return to Top of Page	vai	Vai
cop	Coptic	kan	Kannada	paa	Papuan (Other)	ven	Venda
cor	Cornish	kar	Karen	pag	Pangasinan	vie	Vietnamese
cos	Corsican	kas	Kashmiri	pal	Pahlavi	vol	Volapük
cpe	Creoles and Pidgins, English‐based (Other)	kau	Kanuri	pam	Pampanga	vot	Votic
cpe	Creoles and Pidgins, English‐based (Other)	kaw	Kawi	pan	Panjabi
cpf	Creoles and Pidgins, French‐based (Other)	kaz	Kazakh	pap	Papiamento	W	Return to Top of Page
cpf	Creoles and Pidgins, French‐based (Other)	kbd	Kabardian	pau	Palauan	wak	Wakashan languages
cpp	Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese‐based (Other)	kha	Khasi	paw	Pawnee	wal	Walamo
cpp	Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese‐based (Other)	khi	Khoisan (Other)	per	Persian (Farsi)	war	Waray
cre	Cree	khm	Khmer	phi	Philippine (Other)	was	Washo
crh	Crimean Tatar	kho	Khotanese	phn	Phoenician	wel	Welsh
crp	Creoles and Pidgins (Other)	kic	Kickapoo	pli	Pali	wen	Sorbian languages
cus	Cushitic (Other)	kik	Kikuyu	pol	Polish	wic	Wichita
cze	Czech	kin	Kinyarwanda	pon	Ponape	wln	Walloon
		kir	Kyrgyz	por	Portuguese	wol	Wolof
D	Return to Top of Page	kjq	Keresan	pot	Potawatomi	wya	Wyandot
dak	Dakota	kmb	Kimbundu	pra	Prakrit languages
dan	Danish	kok	Konkani	pus	Pushto	X	Return to Top of Page
dar	Dargwa	kom	Komi			xal	Kalmyk
day	Dayak	kon	Kongo	Q	Return to Top of Page	xho	Xhosa
del	Delaware	kor	Korean	qua	Quapaw
den	Slave	kos	Kusaie	que	Quechua	Y	Return to Top of Page
dgr	Dogrib	kpe	Kpelle			yao	Yao (Africa)
din	Dinka	kro	Kru	R	Return to Top of Page	yap	Yapese
div	Divehi	kru	Kurukh	raj	Rajasthani	yid	Yiddish
doi	Dogri	kua	Kuanyama	rap	Rapanui	yor	Yoruba (Yoriba)
dra	Dravidian (Other)	kum	Kumyk	rar	Rarotongan	ypk	Yupik languages
dua	Duala	kur	Kurdish	roa	Romance (Other)	yuc	Yuchi
dum	Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050‐1350)	kut	Kutenai	roh	Raeto‐Romance
dut	Dutch			rom	Romani	Z	Return to Top of Page
dyu	Dyula			rum	Romanian	zap	Zapotec
dzo	Dzongkha			run	Rundi	zen	Zenaga
				rus	Russian	zha	Zhuang
						znd	Zande
						zul	Zulu
						zun	Zuni

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