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The ISO 639 standard defines two-letter codes for many languages, and three-letter codes for more rarely used languages. All abbreviations for languages used in the Translation Project should come from this standard.
For the commonly used languages, the ISO 639-1 standard defines two-letter codes.
Afar.
Abkhazian.
Avestan.
Afrikaans.
Akan.
Amharic.
Aragonese.
Arabic.
Assamese.
Avaric.
Aymara.
Azerbaijani.
Bashkir.
Belarusian.
Bulgarian.
Bihari languages.
Bislama.
Bambara.
Bengali.
Tibetan.
Breton.
Bosnian.
Catalan; Valencian.
Chechen.
Chamorro.
Corsican.
Cree.
Czech.
Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic.
Chuvash.
Welsh.
Danish.
German.
Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian.
Dzongkha.
Ewe.
Greek, Modern (1453-).
English.
Esperanto.
Spanish; Castilian.
Estonian.
Basque.
Persian.
Fulah.
Finnish.
Fijian.
Faroese.
French.
Western Frisian.
Irish.
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic.
Galician.
Guarani.
Gujarati.
Manx.
Hausa.
Hebrew.
Hindi.
Hiri Motu.
Croatian.
Haitian; Haitian Creole.
Hungarian.
Armenian.
Herero.
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association).
Indonesian.
Interlingue; Occidental.
Igbo.
Sichuan Yi; Nuosu.
Inupiak.
Ido.
Icelandic.
Italian.
Inuktitut.
Japanese.
Javanese.
Georgian.
Kongo.
Kikuyu; Gikuyu.
Kuanyama; Kwanyama.
Kazakh.
Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.
Central Khmer.
Kannada.
Korean.
Kanuri.
Kashmiri.
Kurdish.
Komi.
Cornish.
Kirghiz; Kyrgyz.
Latin.
Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch.
Ganda.
Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish.
Lingala.
Lao.
Lithuanian.
Luba-Katanga.
Latvian.
Malagasy.
Marshallese.
Maori.
Macedonian.
Malayalam.
Mongolian.
Marathi.
Malay.
Maltese.
Burmese.
Nauru.
Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål.
Ndebele, North; North Ndebele.
Nepali.
Ndonga.
Dutch; Flemish.
Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian.
Norwegian.
Ndebele, South; South Ndebele.
Navajo; Navaho.
Chichewa; Nyanja.
Occitan (post 1500); Provençal.
Ojibwa.
Oromo.
Oriya.
Ossetian; Ossetic.
Panjabi; Punjabi.
Pali.
Polish.
Pushto; Pashto.
Portuguese.
Quechua.
Romansh.
Rundi.
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan.
Russian.
Kinyarwanda.
Sanskrit.
Sardinian.
Sindhi.
Northern Sami.
Sango.
Sinhala; Sinhalese.
Slovak.
Slovenian.
Samoan.
Shona.
Somali.
Albanian.
Serbian.
Swati.
Sotho, Southern.
Sundanese.
Swedish.
Swahili.
Tamil.
Telugu.
Tajik.
Thai.
Tigrinya.
Turkmen.
Tagalog.
Tswana.
Tonga (Tonga Islands).
Turkish.
Tsonga.
Tatar.
Twi.
Tahitian.
Uighur; Uyghur.
Ukrainian.
Urdu.
Uzbek.
Venda.
Vietnamese.
Volapük.
Walloon.
Wolof.
Xhosa.
Yiddish.
Yoruba.
Zhuang; Chuang.
Chinese.
Zulu.
For rarely used languages, the ISO 639-2 standard defines three-letter codes. Here is the current list, reduced to only living languages with at least one million of speakers.
Achinese.
Awadhi.
Baluchi.
Balinese.
Beja; Bedawiyet.
Bemba.
Bhojpuri.
Bikol.
Bini; Edo.
Buginese.
Cebuano.
Dinka.
Dogri.
Filipino; Pilipino.
Fon.
Gondi.
Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian.
Hiligaynon.
Hmong.
Iloko.
Kabyle.
Kamba.
Kabardian.
Kimbundu.
Konkani.
Kurukh.
Luba-Lulua.
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania).
Madurese.
Magahi.
Maithili.
Makasar.
Mandingo.
Mende.
Minangkabau.
Manipuri.
Mossi.
Marwari.
Neapolitan.
Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho.
Nyamwezi.
Nyankole.
Pangasinan.
Pampanga; Kapampangan.
Rajasthani.
Sasak.
Santali.
Sicilian.
Shan.
Sidamo.
Serer.
Sukuma.
Susu.
Timne.
Tiv.
Tumbuka.
Umbundu.
Walamo.
Waray.
Yao.
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