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\chapter{ISO 639 Language Codes}
\label{cha:Appendix:ISO639}

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.

\begin{description}
\item[aa]
Afar.

\item[ab]
Abkhazian.

\item[ae]
Avestan.

\item[af]
Afrikaans.

\item[ak]
Akan.

\item[am]
Amharic.

\item[an]
Aragonese.

\item[ar]
Arabic.

\item[as]
Assamese.

\item[av]
Avaric.

\item[ay]
Aymara.

\item[az]
Azerbaijani.

\item[ba]
Bashkir.

\item[be]
Byelorussian; Belarusian.

\item[bg]
Bulgarian.

\item[bh]
Bihari.

\item[bi]
Bislama.

\item[bm]
Bambara.

\item[bn]
Bengali; Bangla.

\item[bo]
Tibetan.

\item[br]
Breton.

\item[bs]
Bosnian.

\item[ca]
Catalan.

\item[ce]
Chechen.

\item[ch]
Chamorro.

\item[co]
Corsican.

\item[cr]
Cree.

\item[cs]
Czech.

\item[cu]
Church Slavic.

\item[cv]
Chuvash.

\item[cy]
Welsh.

\item[da]
Danish.

\item[de]
German.

\item[dv]
Divehi.

\item[dz]
Dzongkha; Bhutani.

\item[ee]
E'we'.

\item[el]
Greek.

\item[en]
English.

\item[eo]
Esperanto.

\item[es]
Spanish.

\item[et]
Estonian.

\item[eu]
Basque.

\item[fa]
Persian.

\item[ff]
Fulah.

\item[fi]
Finnish.

\item[fj]
Fijian; Fiji.

\item[fo]
Faroese.

\item[fr]
French.

\item[fy]
Frisian.

\item[ga]
Irish.

\item[gd]
Scots; Gaelic.

\item[gl]
Gallegan; Galician.

\item[gn]
Guarani.

\item[gu]
Gujarati.

\item[gv]
Manx.

\item[ha]
Hausa (?).

\item[he]
Hebrew (formerly iw).

\item[hi]
Hindi.

\item[ho]
Hiri Motu.

\item[hr]
Croatian.

\item[ht]
Haitian; Haitian Creole.

\item[hu]
Hungarian.

\item[hy]
Armenian.

\item[hz]
Herero.

\item[ia]
Interlingua.

\item[id]
Indonesian (formerly in).

\item[ie]
Interlingue.

\item[ig]
Igbo.

\item[ii]
Sichuan Yi.

\item[ik]
Inupiak.

\item[io]
Ido.

\item[is]
Icelandic.

\item[it]
Italian.

\item[iu]
Inuktitut.

\item[ja]
Japanese.

\item[jv]
Javanese.

\item[ka]
Georgian.

\item[kg]
Kongo.

\item[ki]
Kikuyu.

\item[kj]
Kuanyama.

\item[kk]
Kazakh.

\item[kl]
Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.

\item[km]
Khmer; Cambodian.

\item[kn]
Kannada.

\item[ko]
Korean.

\item[kr]
Kanuri.

\item[ks]
Kashmiri.

\item[ku]
Kurdish.

\item[kv]
Komi.

\item[kw]
Cornish.

\item[ky]
Kirghiz.

\item[la]
Latin.

\item[lb]
Letzeburgesch.

\item[lg]
Ganda.

\item[li]
Limburgish; Limburger; Limburgan.

\item[ln]
Lingala.

\item[lo]
Lao; Laotian.

\item[lt]
Lithuanian.

\item[lu]
Luba-Katanga.

\item[lv]
Latvian; Lettish.

\item[mg]
Malagasy.

\item[mh]
Marshall.

\item[mi]
Maori.

\item[mk]
Macedonian.

\item[ml]
Malayalam.

\item[mn]
Mongolian.

\item[mo]
Moldavian.

\item[mr]
Marathi.

\item[ms]
Malay.

\item[mt]
Maltese.

\item[my]
Burmese.

\item[na]
Nauru.

\item[nb]
Norwegian Bokmaal.

\item[nd]
Ndebele, North.

\item[ne]
Nepali.

\item[ng]
Ndonga.

\item[nl]
Dutch.

\item[nn]
Norwegian Nynorsk.

\item[no]
Norwegian.

\item[nr]
Ndebele, South.

\item[nv]
Navajo.

\item[ny]
Chichewa; Nyanja.

\item[oc]
Occitan; Provenc,al.

\item[oj]
Ojibwa.

\item[om]
(Afan) Oromo.

\item[or]
Oriya.

\item[os]
Ossetian; Ossetic.

\item[pa]
Panjabi; Punjabi.

\item[pi]
Pali.

\item[pl]
Polish.

\item[ps]
Pashto, Pushto.

\item[pt]
Portuguese.

\item[qu]
Quechua.

\item[rm]
Rhaeto-Romance.

\item[rn]
Rundi; Kirundi.

\item[ro]
Romanian.

\item[ru]
Russian.

\item[rw]
Kinyarwanda.

\item[sa]
Sanskrit.

\item[sc]
Sardinian.

\item[sd]
Sindhi.

\item[se]
Northern Sami.

\item[sg]
Sango; Sangro.

\item[si]
Sinhalese.

\item[sk]
Slovak.

\item[sl]
Slovenian.

\item[sm]
Samoan.

\item[sn]
Shona.

\item[so]
Somali.

\item[sq]
Albanian.

\item[sr]
Serbian.

\item[ss]
Swati; Siswati.

\item[st]
Sesotho; Sotho, Southern.

\item[su]
Sundanese.

\item[sv]
Swedish.

\item[sw]
Swahili.

\item[ta]
Tamil.

\item[te]
Telugu.

\item[tg]
Tajik.

\item[th]
Thai.

\item[ti]
Tigrinya.

\item[tk]
Turkmen.

\item[tl]
Tagalog.

\item[tn]
Tswana; Setswana.

\item[to]
Tonga (?).

\item[tr]
Turkish.

\item[ts]
Tsonga.

\item[tt]
Tatar.

\item[tw]
Twi.

\item[ty]
Tahitian.

\item[ug]
Uighur.

\item[uk]
Ukrainian.

\item[ur]
Urdu.

\item[uz]
Uzbek.

\item[ve]
Venda.

\item[vi]
Vietnamese.

\item[vo]
Volapu"k; Volapuk.

\item[wa]
Walloon.

\item[wo]
Wolof.

\item[xh]
Xhosa.

\item[yi]
Yiddish (formerly ji).

\item[yo]
Yoruba.

\item[za]
Zhuang.

\item[zh]
Chinese.

\item[zu]
Zulu.
\end{description}