Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F)
"Code for the representation of names of languages".
 
Typed by Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk 1990-11-30
Minor corrections, 1992-09-08 by Keld Simonsen
Sundanese corrected, 1992-11-11 by Keld Simonsen
Telugu corrected, 1995-08-24 by Keld Simonsen
Hebrew, Indonesian, Yiddish corrected 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Inuktitut, Uighur, Zhuang added 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Sinhalese corrected, 1995-10-10 by Michael Everson
Faeroese corrected to Faroese, 1995-11-18 by Keld Simonsen
Sangro corrected to Sangho, 1996-07-28 by Keld Simonsen
 
Two-letter lower-case symbols are used.
The Registration Authority for ISO 639 is Infoterm, Osterreichisches
Normungsinstitut (ON), Postfach 130, A-1021 Vienna, Austria.
 
aa Afar
ab Abkhazian
af Afrikaans
am Amharic
ar Arabic
as Assamese
ay Aymara
az Azerbaijani
 
ba Bashkir
be Byelorussian
bg Bulgarian
bh Bihari
bi Bislama
bn Bengali; Bangla
bo Tibetan
br Breton
 
ca Catalan
co Corsican
cs Czech
cy Welsh
 
da Danish
de German
dz Bhutani
 
el Greek
en English
eo Esperanto
es Spanish
et Estonian
eu Basque
 
fa Persian
fi Finnish
fj Fiji
fo Faroese
fr French
fy Frisian
 
ga Irish
gd Scots Gaelic
gl Galician
gn Guarani
gu Gujarati
 
ha Hausa
he Hebrew (formerly iw)
hi Hindi
hr Croatian
hu Hungarian
hy Armenian
 
ia Interlingua
id Indonesian (formerly in)
ie Interlingue
ik Inupiak
is Icelandic
it Italian
iu Inuktitut
 
ja Japanese
jw Javanese
 
ka Georgian
kk Kazakh
kl Greenlandic
km Cambodian
kn Kannada
ko Korean
ks Kashmiri
ku Kurdish
ky Kirghiz
 
la Latin
ln Lingala
lo Laothian
lt Lithuanian
lv Latvian, Lettish
 
mg Malagasy
mi Maori
mk Macedonian
ml Malayalam
mn Mongolian
mo Moldavian
mr Marathi
ms Malay
mt Maltese
my Burmese
 
na Nauru
ne Nepali
nl Dutch
no Norwegian
 
oc Occitan
om (Afan) Oromo
or Oriya
 
pa Punjabi
pl Polish
ps Pashto, Pushto
pt Portuguese
 
qu Quechua
 
rm Rhaeto-Romance
rn Kirundi
ro Romanian
ru Russian
rw Kinyarwanda
 
sa Sanskrit
sd Sindhi
sg Sangho
sh Serbo-Croatian
si Sinhalese
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
sm Samoan
sn Shona
so Somali
sq Albanian
sr Serbian
ss Siswati
st Sesotho
su Sundanese
sv Swedish
sw Swahili
 
ta Tamil
te Telugu
tg Tajik
th Thai
ti Tigrinya
tk Turkmen
tl Tagalog
tn Setswana
to Tonga
tr Turkish
ts Tsonga
tt Tatar
tw Twi
 
ug Uighur
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek
 
vi Vietnamese
vo Volapuk
 
wo Wolof
 
xh Xhosa
 
yi Yiddish (formerly ji)
yo Yoruba
 
za Zhuang
zh Chinese
zu Zulu