The sif-compliant codes for Native Languages are as follows. See the, "National Information Standards Organization (NISO)," section of the SIF Specification.
Code | Language |
aar | Afar |
abk | Abkhaz |
ace | Achinese |
ach | Acoli |
ada | Adangme |
ady | Adygei |
afa | Afroasiatic (Other) |
afh | Afrihili (Artificial language) |
afr | Afrikaans |
ajm | Aljamía (Discontinued) |
aka | Akan |
akk | Akkadian |
alb | Albanian |
ale | Aleut |
alg | Algonquian (Other) |
amh | Amharic |
ang | English, Old (ca. 450-1100) |
apa | Apache languages |
ara | Arabic |
arc | Aramaic |
arg | Aragonese Spanish |
arm | Armenian |
arn | Mapuche |
arp | Arapaho |
art | Artificial (Other) |
arw | Arawak |
asm | Assamese |
ast | Bable |
ath | Athapascan (Other) |
aus | Australian languages |
ava | Avaric |
ave | Avestan |
awa | Awadhi |
aym | Aymara |
aze | Azerbaijani |
bad | Banda |
bai | Bamileke languages |
bak | Bashkir |
bal | Baluchi |
bam | Bambara |
ban | Balinese |
baq | Basque |
bas | Basa |
bat | Baltic (Other) |
bej | Beja |
bel | Belarusian |
bem | Bemba |
ben | Bengali |
ber | Berber (Other) |
bho | Bhojpuri |
bih | Bihari |
bik | Bikol |
bin | Edo |
bis | Bislama |
bla | Siksika |
bnt | Bantu (Other) |
bos | Bosnian |
bra | Braj |
bre | Breton |
btk | Batak |
bua | Buriat |
bug | Bugis |
bul | Bulgarian |
bur | Burmese |
cad | Caddo |
cai | Central American Indian (Other) |
cam | Khmer (Discontinued) |
car | Carib |
cat | Catalan |
cau | Caucasian (Other) |
ceb | Cebuano |
cel | Celtic (Other) |
cha | Chamorro |
chb | Chibcha |
che | Chechen |
chg | Chagatai |
chi | Chinese |
chk | Truk |
chm | Mari |
chn | Chinook jargon |
cho | Choctaw |
chp | Chipewyan |
chr | Cherokee |
chu | Church Slavic |
chv | Chuvash |
chy | Cheyenne |
cmc | Chamic languages |
cop | Coptic |
cor | Cornish |
cos | Corsican |
cpe | Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other) |
cpf | Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other) |
cpp | Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other) |
cre | Cree |
crh | Crimean Tatar |
crp | Creoles and Pidgins (Other) |
cus | Cushitic (Other) |
cze | Czech |
dak | Dakota |
dan | Danish |
dar | Dargwa |
day | Dayak |
del | Delaware |
den | Slave |
dgr | Dogrib |
din | Dinka |
div | Divehi |
doi | Dogri |
dra | Dravidian (Other) |
dua | Duala |
dum | Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) |
dut | Dutch |
dyu | Dyula |
dzo | Dzongkha |
efi | Efik |
egy | Egyptian |
eka | Ekajuk |
elx | Elamite |
eng | English |
enm | English, Middle (1100-1500) |
epo | Esperanto |
esk | Eskimo languages (Discontinued) |
esp | Esperanto (Discontinued) |
est | Estonian |
eth | Ethiopic (Discontinued) |
ewe | Ewe |
ewo | Ewondo |
fan | Fang |
fao | Faroese |
far | Faroese (Discontinued) |
fat | Fanti |
fij | Fijian |
fin | Finnish |
fiu | Finno-Ugrian (Other) |
fon | Fon |
fre | French |
fri | Frisian (Discontinued) |
frm | French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) |
fro | French, Old (ca. 842-1400) |
fry | Frisian |
ful | Fula |
fur | Friulian |
gaa | Gã |
gae | Scottish Gaelic (Discontinued) |
gag | Galician (Discontinued) |
gal | Oromo |
gay | Gayo |
gba | Gbaya |
gem | Germanic (Other) |
geo | Georgian |
ger | German |
gez | Ethiopic |
gil | Gilbertese |
gla | Scottish Gaelic |
gle | Irish |
glg | Galician |
glv | Manx |
gmh | German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) |
goh | German, Old High (ca. 750-1050) |
gon | Gondi |
gor | Gorontalo |
got | Gothic |
grb | Grebo |
grc | Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
gre | Greek, Modern (1453- ) |
grn | Guarani |
gua | Guarani (Discontinued) |
guj | Gujarati |
gwi | Gwich'in |
hai | Haida |
hat | Haitian French Creole |
hau | Hausa |
haw | Hawaiian |
heb | Hebrew |
her | Herero |
hil | Hiligaynon |
him | Himachali |
hin | Hindi |
hit | Hittite |
hmn | Hmong |
hmo | Hiri Motu |
hun | Hungarian |
hup | Hupa |
iba | Iban |
ibo | Igbo |
ice | Icelandic |
ido | Ido |
iii | Sichuan Yi |
ijo | Ijo |
iku | Inuktitut |
ile | Interlingue |
ilo | Iloko |
ina | Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) |
inc | Indic (Other) |
ind | Indonesian |
ine | Indo-European (Other) |
inh | Ingush |
int | Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) (Discontinued) |
ipk | Inupiaq |
ira | Iranian (Other) |
iri | Irish (Discontinued) |
iro | Iroquoian (Other) |
ita | Italian |
jav | Javanese |
jpn | Japanese |
jpr | Judeo-Persian |
jrb | Judeo-Arabic |
kaa | Kara-Kalpak |
kab | Kabyle |
kac | Kachin |
kal | Kalâtdlisut |
kam | Kamba |
kan | Kannada |
kar | Karen |
kas | Kashmiri |
kau | Kanuri |
kaw | Kawi |
kaz | Kazakh |
kbd | Kabardian |
kha | Khasi |
khi | Khoisan (Other) |
khm | Khmer |
kho | Khotanese |
kik | Kikuyu |
kin | Kinyarwanda |
kir | Kyrgyz |
kmb | Kimbundu |
kok | Konkani |
kom | Komi |
kon | Kongo |
kor | Korean |
kos | Kusaie |
kpe | Kpelle |
kro | Kru |
kru | Kurukh |
kua | Kuanyama |
kum | Kumyk |
kur | Kurdish |
kus | Kusaie (Discontinued) |
kut | Kutenai |
lad | Ladino |
lah | Lahnda |
lam | Lamba |
lan | Occitan (post-1500) (Discontinued) |
lao | Lao |
lap | Sami (Discontinued) |
lat | Latin |
lav | Latvian |
lez | Lezgian |
lim | Limburgish |
lin | Lingala |
lit | Lithuanian |
lol | Mongo-Nkundu |
loz | Lozi |
ltz | Letzeburgesch |
lua | Luba-Lulua |
lub | Luba-Katanga |
lug | Ganda |
lui | Luiseño |
lun | Lunda |
luo | Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) |
lus | Lushai |
mac | Macedonian |
mad | Madurese |
mag | Magahi |
mah | Marshallese |
mai | Maithili |
mak | Makasar |
mal | Malayalam |
man | Mandingo |
mao | Maori |
map | Austronesian (Other) |
mar | Marathi |
mas | Masai |
max | Manx (Discontinued) |
may | Malay |
mdr | Mandar |
men | Mende |
mga | Irish, Middle (ca. 1100-1550) |
mic | Micmac |
min | Minangkabau |
mis | Miscellaneous languages |
mkh | Mon-Khmer (Other) |
mla | Malagasy (Discontinued) |
mlg | Malagasy |
mlt | Maltese |
mnc | Manchu |
mni | Manipuri |
mno | Manobo languages |
moh | Mohawk |
mol | Moldavian |
mon | Mongolian |
mos | Mooré |
mul | Multiple languages |
mun | Munda (Other) |
mus | Creek |
mwr | Marwari |
myn | Mayan languages |
nah | Nahuatl |
nai | North American Indian (Other) |
nap | Neapolitan Italian |
nau | Nauru |
nav | Navajo |
nbl | Ndebele (South Africa) |
nde | Ndebele (Zimbabwe) |
ndo | Ndonga |
nds | Low German |
nep | Nepali |
new | Newari |
nia | Nias |
nic | Niger-Kordofanian (Other) |
niu | Niuean |
nno | Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
nob | Norwegian (Bokmål) |
nog | Nogai |
non | Old Norse |
nor | Norwegian |
nso | Northern Sotho |
nub | Nubian languages |
nya | Nyanja |
nym | Nyamwezi |
nyn | Nyankole |
nyo | Nyoro |
nzi | Nzima |
oci | Occitan (post-1500) |
oji | Ojibwa |
ori | Oriya |
orm | Oromo |
osa | Osage |
oss | Ossetic |
ota | Turkish, Ottoman |
oto | Otomian languages |
paa | Papuan (Other) |
pag | Pangasinan |
pal | Pahlavi |
pam | Pampanga |
pan | Panjabi |
pap | Papiamento |
pau | Palauan |
peo | Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.) |
per | Persian |
phi | Philippine (Other) |
phn | Phoenician |
pli | Pali |
pol | Polish |
pon | Ponape |
por | Portuguese |
pra | Prakrit languages |
pro | Provençal (to 1500) |
pus | Pushto |
que | Quechua |
raj | Rajasthani |
rap | Rapanui |
rar | Rarotongan |
roa | Romance (Other) |
roh | Raeto-Romance |
rom | Romani |
rum | Romanian |
run | Rundi |
rus | Russian |
sad | Sandawe |
sag | Sango (Ubangi Creole) |
sah | Yakut |
sai | South American Indian (Other) |
sal | Salishan languages |
sam | Samaritan Aramaic |
san | Sanskrit |
sao | Samoan (Discontinued) |
sas | Sasak |
sat | Santali |
scc | Serbian |
sco | Scots |
scr | Croatian |
sel | Selkup |
sem | Semitic (Other) |
sga | Irish, Old (to 1100) |
sgn | Sign languages |
shn | Shan |
sho | Shona (Discontinued) |
sid | Sidamo |
sin | Sinhalese |
sio | Siouan (Other) |
sit | Sino-Tibetan (Other) |
sla | Slavic (Other) |
slo | Slovak |
slv | Slovenian |
sma | Southern Sami |
sme | Northern Sami |
smi | Sami |
smj | Lule Sami |
smn | Inari Sami |
smo | Samoan |
sms | Skolt Sami |
sna | Shona |
snd | Sindhi |
snh | Sinhalese (Discontinued) |
snk | Soninke |
sog | Sogdian |
som | Somali |
son | Songhai |
sot | Sotho |
spa | Spanish |
srd | Sardinian |
srr | Serer |
ssa | Nilo-Saharan (Other) |
sso | Sotho (Discontinued) |
ssw | Swazi |
suk | Sukuma |
sun | Sundanese |
sus | Susu |
sux | Sumerian |
swa | Swahili |
swe | Swedish |
swz | Swazi (Discontinued) |
syr | Syriac |
tag | Tagalog (Discontinued) |
tah | Tahitian |
tai | Tai (Other) |
taj | Tajik (Discontinued) |
tam | Tamil |
tar | Tatar (Discontinued) |
tat | Tatar |
tel | Telugu |
tem | Temne |
ter | Terena |
tet | Tetum |
tgk | Tajik |
tgl | Tagalog |
tha | Thai |
tib | Tibetan |
tig | Tigré |
tir | Tigrinya |
tiv | Tiv |
tkl | Tokelauan |
tli | Tlingit |
tmh | Tamashek |
tog | Tonga (Nyasa) |
ton | Tongan |
tpi | Tok Pisin |
tru | Truk (Discontinued) |
tsi | Tsimshian |
tsn | Tswana |
tso | Tsonga |
tsw | Tswana (Discontinued) |
tuk | Turkmen |
tum | Tumbuka |
tup | Tupi languages |
tur | Turkish |
tut | Altaic (Other) |
tvl | Tuvaluan |
twi | Twi |
tyv | Tuvinian |
udm | Udmurt |
uga | Ugaritic |
uig | Uighur |
ukr | Ukrainian |
umb | Umbundu |
und | Undetermined |
urd | Urdu |
uzb | Uzbek |
vai | Vai |
ven | Venda |
vie | Vietnamese |
vol | Volapük |
vot | Votic |
wak | Wakashan languages |
wal | Walamo |
war | Waray |
was | Washo |
wel | Welsh |
wen | Sorbian languages |
wln | Walloon |
wol | Wolof |
xal | Kalmyk |
xho | Xhosa |
yao | Yao (Africa) |
yap | Yapese |
yid | Yiddish |
yor | Yoruba |
ypk | Yupik languages |
zap | Zapotec |
zen | Zenaga |
zha | Zhuang |
znd | Zande |
zul | Zulu |
zun | Zuni |
mxt | Mixteco |