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# A Language Codes

The ISO 639 standard defines two character codes for many languages. All abbreviations for languages used in the Translation Project should come from this standard.

``aa'`
  Afar.
``ab'`
  Abkhazian.
``ae'`
  Avestan.
``af'`
  Afrikaans.
``am'`
  Amharic.
``ar'`
  Arabic.
``as'`
  Assamese.
``ay'`
  Aymara.
``az'`
  Azerbaijani.
``ba'`
  Bashkir.
``be'`
  Byelorussian; Belarusian.
``bg'`
  Bulgarian.
``bh'`
  Bihari.
``bi'`
  Bislama.
``bn'`
  Bengali; Bangla.
``bo'`
  Tibetan.
``br'`
  Breton.
``bs'`
  Bosnian.
``ca'`
  Catalan.
``ce'`
  Chechen.
``ch'`
  Chamorro.
``co'`
  Corsican.
``cs'`
  Czech.
``cu'`
  Church Slavic.
``cv'`
  Chuvash.
``cy'`
  Welsh.
``da'`
  Danish.
``de'`
  German.
``dz'`
  Dzongkha; Bhutani.
``el'`
  Greek.
``en'`
  English.
``eo'`
  Esperanto.
``es'`
  Spanish.
``et'`
  Estonian.
``eu'`
  Basque.
``fa'`
  Persian.
``fi'`
  Finnish.
``fj'`
  Fijian; Fiji.
``fo'`
  Faroese.
``fr'`
  French.
``fy'`
  Frisian.
``ga'`
  Irish.
``gd'`
  Scots; Gaelic.
``gl'`
  Gallegan; Galician.
``gn'`
  Guarani.
``gu'`
  Gujarati.
``gv'`
  Manx.
``ha'`
  Hausa (?).
``he'`
  Hebrew (formerly iw).
``hi'`
  Hindi.
``ho'`
  Hiri Motu.
``hr'`
  Croatian.
``hu'`
  Hungarian.
``hy'`
  Armenian.
``hz'`
  Herero.
``ia'`
  Interlingua.
``id'`
  Indonesian (formerly in).
``ie'`
  Interlingue.
``ik'`
  Inupiak.
``is'`
  Icelandic.
``it'`
  Italian.
``iu'`
  Inuktitut.
``ja'`
  Japanese.
``jw'`
  Javanese.
``ka'`
  Georgian.
``ki'`
  Kikuyu.
``kj'`
  Kuanyama.
``kk'`
  Kazakh.
``kl'`
  Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.
``km'`
  Khmer; Cambodian.
``kn'`
  Kannada.
``ko'`
  Korean.
``ks'`
  Kashmiri.
``ku'`
  Kurdish.
``kv'`
  Komi.
``kw'`
  Cornish.
``ky'`
  Kirghiz.
``la'`
  Latin.
``lb'`
  Letzeburgesch.
``ln'`
  Lingala.
``lo'`
  Lao; Laotian.
``lt'`
  Lithuanian.
``lv'`
  Latvian; Lettish.
``mg'`
  Malagasy.
``mh'`
  Marshall.
``mi'`
  Maori.
``mk'`
  Macedonian.
``ml'`
  Malayalam.
``mn'`
  Mongolian.
``mo'`
  Moldavian.
``mr'`
  Marathi.
``ms'`
  Malay.
``mt'`
  Maltese.
``my'`
  Burmese.
``na'`
  Nauru.
``nb'`
  Norwegian Bokm@aa{}l.
``nd'`
  Ndebele, North.
``ne'`
  Nepali.
``ng'`
  Ndonga.
``nl'`
  Dutch.
``nn'`
  Norwegian Nynorsk.
``no'`
  Norwegian.
``nr'`
  Ndebele, South.
``nv'`
  Navajo.
``ny'`
  Chichewa; Nyanja.
``oc'`
  Occitan; Proven@,{c}al.
``om'`
  (Afan) Oromo.
``or'`
  Oriya.
``os'`
  Ossetian; Ossetic.
``pa'`
  Panjabi; Punjabi.
``pi'`
  Pali.
``pl'`
  Polish.
``ps'`
  Pashto, Pushto.
``pt'`
  Portuguese.
``qu'`
  Quechua.
``rm'`
  Rhaeto-Romance.
``rn'`
  Rundi; Kirundi.
``ro'`
  Romanian.
``ru'`
  Russian.
``rw'`
  Kinyarwanda.
``sa'`
  Sanskrit.
``sc'`
  Sardinian.
``sd'`
  Sindhi.
``se'`
  Northern Sami.
``sg'`
  Sango; Sangro.
``si'`
  Sinhalese.
``sk'`
  Slovak.
``sl'`
  Slovenian.
``sm'`
  Samoan.
``sn'`
  Shona.
``so'`
  Somali.
``sq'`
  Albanian.
``sr'`
  Serbian.
``ss'`
  Swati; Siswati.
``st'`
  Sesotho; Sotho, Southern.
``su'`
  Sundanese.
``sv'`
  Swedish.
``sw'`
  Swahili.
``ta'`
  Tamil.
``te'`
  Telugu.
``tg'`
  Tajik.
``th'`
  Thai.
``ti'`
  Tigrinya.
``tk'`
  Turkmen.
``tl'`
  Tagalog.
``tn'`
  Tswana; Setswana.
``to'`
  Tonga (?).
``tr'`
  Turkish.
``ts'`
  Tsonga.
``tt'`
  Tatar.
``tw'`
  Twi.
``ty'`
  Tahitian.
``ug'`
  Uighur.
``uk'`
  Ukrainian.
``ur'`
  Urdu.
``uz'`
  Uzbek.
``vi'`
  Vietnamese.
``vo'`
  Volap@"{u}k; Volapuk.
``wo'`
  Wolof.
``xh'`
  Xhosa.
``yi'`
  Yiddish (formerly ji).
``yo'`
  Yoruba.
``za'`
  Zhuang.
``zh'`
  Chinese.
``zu'`
  Zulu.

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