The following table lists the two-letter language codes from the ISO 639 international standard. In applications, these two-letter codes are represented by case-insensitive ASCII character codes. In the World Wide Web, language codes are used to select between special native language symbols, such as punctuation marks, currency, numerical notation (e.g. commas instead of periods as the decimal separator), text direction (left to right or right to left), and so on. The use of these codes is discussed in Chapter 5 of The HTML Sourcebook, Third edition.
Table: Two-letter Language Codes, From ISO 639 CODE Language CODE Language 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 Faeroese fr French fy Frisian ga Irish gd Scots, Gaelic gl Galician gn Guarani gu Gujarati he Hebrew ha Hausa hi Hindi hr Croatian hu Hungarian hy Armenian ia Interlingua id Indonesian ie Interlingue ik Inupiak in Indonesian is Icelandic it Italian iu Inuktitut iw Hebrew (obsolete) ja Japanese ji Yiddish (obsolete) 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 Sangro sh Serbo-Croatian si Singhalese 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 Tegulu tg Tajik th Thai ti Tigrinya tk Turkmen tl Tagalog tn Setswana to Tonga tr Turkish ts Tsonga tt Tatar tw Twi ug Uigur uk Ukrainian ur Urdu uz Uzbek vi Vietnamese vo Volapuk wo Wolof xh Xhosa y Yiddish yo Yoruba za Zuang zh Chinese zu Zulu CODE Language CODE Language
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