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  13 <H1><A NAME="SEC290" HREF="gettext_toc.html#TOC290">A  Language Codes</A></H1>
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  20 The ISO 639 standard defines two character codes for many languages.
  21 All abbreviations for languages used in the Translation Project should
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  26
  27 <DT><SAMP>`aa&acute;</SAMP>
  28 <DD>
  29 Afar.
  30 <DT><SAMP>`ab&acute;</SAMP>
  31 <DD>
  32 Abkhazian.
  33 <DT><SAMP>`ae&acute;</SAMP>
  34 <DD>
  35 Avestan.
  36 <DT><SAMP>`af&acute;</SAMP>
  37 <DD>
  38 Afrikaans.
  39 <DT><SAMP>`ak&acute;</SAMP>
  40 <DD>
  41 Akan.
  42 <DT><SAMP>`am&acute;</SAMP>
  43 <DD>
  44 Amharic.
  45 <DT><SAMP>`an&acute;</SAMP>
  46 <DD>
  47 Aragonese.
  48 <DT><SAMP>`ar&acute;</SAMP>
  49 <DD>
  50 Arabic.
  51 <DT><SAMP>`as&acute;</SAMP>
  52 <DD>
  53 Assamese.
  54 <DT><SAMP>`av&acute;</SAMP>
  55 <DD>
  56 Avaric.
  57 <DT><SAMP>`ay&acute;</SAMP>
  58 <DD>
  59 Aymara.
  60 <DT><SAMP>`az&acute;</SAMP>
  61 <DD>
  62 Azerbaijani.
  63 <DT><SAMP>`ba&acute;</SAMP>
  64 <DD>
  65 Bashkir.
  66 <DT><SAMP>`be&acute;</SAMP>
  67 <DD>
  68 Byelorussian; Belarusian.
  69 <DT><SAMP>`bg&acute;</SAMP>
  70 <DD>
  71 Bulgarian.
  72 <DT><SAMP>`bh&acute;</SAMP>
  73 <DD>
  74 Bihari.
  75 <DT><SAMP>`bi&acute;</SAMP>
  76 <DD>
  77 Bislama.
  78 <DT><SAMP>`bm&acute;</SAMP>
  79 <DD>
  80 Bambara.
  81 <DT><SAMP>`bn&acute;</SAMP>
  82 <DD>
  83 Bengali; Bangla.
  84 <DT><SAMP>`bo&acute;</SAMP>
  85 <DD>
  86 Tibetan.
  87 <DT><SAMP>`br&acute;</SAMP>
  88 <DD>
  89 Breton.
  90 <DT><SAMP>`bs&acute;</SAMP>
  91 <DD>
  92 Bosnian.
  93 <DT><SAMP>`ca&acute;</SAMP>
  94 <DD>
  95 Catalan.
  96 <DT><SAMP>`ce&acute;</SAMP>
  97 <DD>
  98 Chechen.
  99 <DT><SAMP>`ch&acute;</SAMP>
 100 <DD>
 101 Chamorro.
 102 <DT><SAMP>`co&acute;</SAMP>
 103 <DD>
 104 Corsican.
 105 <DT><SAMP>`cr&acute;</SAMP>
 106 <DD>
 107 Cree.
 108 <DT><SAMP>`cs&acute;</SAMP>
 109 <DD>
 110 Czech.
 111 <DT><SAMP>`cu&acute;</SAMP>
 112 <DD>
 113 Church Slavic.
 114 <DT><SAMP>`cv&acute;</SAMP>
 115 <DD>
 116 Chuvash.
 117 <DT><SAMP>`cy&acute;</SAMP>
 118 <DD>
 119 Welsh.
 120 <DT><SAMP>`da&acute;</SAMP>
 121 <DD>
 122 Danish.
 123 <DT><SAMP>`de&acute;</SAMP>
 124 <DD>
 125 German.
 126 <DT><SAMP>`dv&acute;</SAMP>
 127 <DD>
 128 Divehi.
 129 <DT><SAMP>`dz&acute;</SAMP>
 130 <DD>
 131 Dzongkha; Bhutani.
 132 <DT><SAMP>`ee&acute;</SAMP>
 133 <DD>
 134 'Ew'e.
 135 <DT><SAMP>`el&acute;</SAMP>
 136 <DD>
 137 Greek.
 138 <DT><SAMP>`en&acute;</SAMP>
 139 <DD>
 140 English.
 141 <DT><SAMP>`eo&acute;</SAMP>
 142 <DD>
 143 Esperanto.
 144 <DT><SAMP>`es&acute;</SAMP>
 145 <DD>
 146 Spanish.
 147 <DT><SAMP>`et&acute;</SAMP>
 148 <DD>
 149 Estonian.
 150 <DT><SAMP>`eu&acute;</SAMP>
 151 <DD>
 152 Basque.
 153 <DT><SAMP>`fa&acute;</SAMP>
 154 <DD>
 155 Persian.
 156 <DT><SAMP>`ff&acute;</SAMP>
 157 <DD>
 158 Fulah.
 159 <DT><SAMP>`fi&acute;</SAMP>
 160 <DD>
 161 Finnish.
 162 <DT><SAMP>`fj&acute;</SAMP>
 163 <DD>
 164 Fijian; Fiji.
 165 <DT><SAMP>`fo&acute;</SAMP>
 166 <DD>
 167 Faroese.
 168 <DT><SAMP>`fr&acute;</SAMP>
 169 <DD>
 170 French.
 171 <DT><SAMP>`fy&acute;</SAMP>
 172 <DD>
 173 Frisian.
 174 <DT><SAMP>`ga&acute;</SAMP>
 175 <DD>
 176 Irish.
 177 <DT><SAMP>`gd&acute;</SAMP>
 178 <DD>
 179 Scots; Gaelic.
 180 <DT><SAMP>`gl&acute;</SAMP>
 181 <DD>
 182 Gallegan; Galician.
 183 <DT><SAMP>`gn&acute;</SAMP>
 184 <DD>
 185 Guarani.
 186 <DT><SAMP>`gu&acute;</SAMP>
 187 <DD>
 188 Gujarati.
 189 <DT><SAMP>`gv&acute;</SAMP>
 190 <DD>
 191 Manx.
 192 <DT><SAMP>`ha&acute;</SAMP>
 193 <DD>
 194 Hausa (?).
 195 <DT><SAMP>`he&acute;</SAMP>
 196 <DD>
 197 Hebrew (formerly iw).
 198 <DT><SAMP>`hi&acute;</SAMP>
 199 <DD>
 200 Hindi.
 201 <DT><SAMP>`ho&acute;</SAMP>
 202 <DD>
 203 Hiri Motu.
 204 <DT><SAMP>`hr&acute;</SAMP>
 205 <DD>
 206 Croatian.
 207 <DT><SAMP>`ht&acute;</SAMP>
 208 <DD>
 209 Haitian; Haitian Creole.
 210 <DT><SAMP>`hu&acute;</SAMP>
 211 <DD>
 212 Hungarian.
 213 <DT><SAMP>`hy&acute;</SAMP>
 214 <DD>
 215 Armenian.
 216 <DT><SAMP>`hz&acute;</SAMP>
 217 <DD>
 218 Herero.
 219 <DT><SAMP>`ia&acute;</SAMP>
 220 <DD>
 221 Interlingua.
 222 <DT><SAMP>`id&acute;</SAMP>
 223 <DD>
 224 Indonesian (formerly in).
 225 <DT><SAMP>`ie&acute;</SAMP>
 226 <DD>
 227 Interlingue.
 228 <DT><SAMP>`ig&acute;</SAMP>
 229 <DD>
 230 Igbo.
 231 <DT><SAMP>`ii&acute;</SAMP>
 232 <DD>
 233 Sichuan Yi.
 234 <DT><SAMP>`ik&acute;</SAMP>
 235 <DD>
 236 Inupiak.
 237 <DT><SAMP>`io&acute;</SAMP>
 238 <DD>
 239 Ido.
 240 <DT><SAMP>`is&acute;</SAMP>
 241 <DD>
 242 Icelandic.
 243 <DT><SAMP>`it&acute;</SAMP>
 244 <DD>
 245 Italian.
 246 <DT><SAMP>`iu&acute;</SAMP>
 247 <DD>
 248 Inuktitut.
 249 <DT><SAMP>`ja&acute;</SAMP>
 250 <DD>
 251 Japanese.
 252 <DT><SAMP>`jv&acute;</SAMP>
 253 <DD>
 254 Javanese.
 255 <DT><SAMP>`ka&acute;</SAMP>
 256 <DD>
 257 Georgian.
 258 <DT><SAMP>`kg&acute;</SAMP>
 259 <DD>
 260 Kongo.
 261 <DT><SAMP>`ki&acute;</SAMP>
 262 <DD>
 263 Kikuyu.
 264 <DT><SAMP>`kj&acute;</SAMP>
 265 <DD>
 266 Kuanyama.
 267 <DT><SAMP>`kk&acute;</SAMP>
 268 <DD>
 269 Kazakh.
 270 <DT><SAMP>`kl&acute;</SAMP>
 271 <DD>
 272 Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.
 273 <DT><SAMP>`km&acute;</SAMP>
 274 <DD>
 275 Khmer; Cambodian.
 276 <DT><SAMP>`kn&acute;</SAMP>
 277 <DD>
 278 Kannada.
 279 <DT><SAMP>`ko&acute;</SAMP>
 280 <DD>
 281 Korean.
 282 <DT><SAMP>`kr&acute;</SAMP>
 283 <DD>
 284 Kanuri.
 285 <DT><SAMP>`ks&acute;</SAMP>
 286 <DD>
 287 Kashmiri.
 288 <DT><SAMP>`ku&acute;</SAMP>
 289 <DD>
 290 Kurdish.
 291 <DT><SAMP>`kv&acute;</SAMP>
 292 <DD>
 293 Komi.
 294 <DT><SAMP>`kw&acute;</SAMP>
 295 <DD>
 296 Cornish.
 297 <DT><SAMP>`ky&acute;</SAMP>
 298 <DD>
 299 Kirghiz.
 300 <DT><SAMP>`la&acute;</SAMP>
 301 <DD>
 302 Latin.
 303 <DT><SAMP>`lb&acute;</SAMP>
 304 <DD>
 305 Letzeburgesch.
 306 <DT><SAMP>`lg&acute;</SAMP>
 307 <DD>
 308 Ganda.
 309 <DT><SAMP>`li&acute;</SAMP>
 310 <DD>
 311 Limburgish; Limburger; Limburgan.
 312 <DT><SAMP>`ln&acute;</SAMP>
 313 <DD>
 314 Lingala.
 315 <DT><SAMP>`lo&acute;</SAMP>
 316 <DD>
 317 Lao; Laotian.
 318 <DT><SAMP>`lt&acute;</SAMP>
 319 <DD>
 320 Lithuanian.
 321 <DT><SAMP>`lu&acute;</SAMP>
 322 <DD>
 323 Luba-Katanga.
 324 <DT><SAMP>`lv&acute;</SAMP>
 325 <DD>
 326 Latvian; Lettish.
 327 <DT><SAMP>`mg&acute;</SAMP>
 328 <DD>
 329 Malagasy.
 330 <DT><SAMP>`mh&acute;</SAMP>
 331 <DD>
 332 Marshall.
 333 <DT><SAMP>`mi&acute;</SAMP>
 334 <DD>
 335 Maori.
 336 <DT><SAMP>`mk&acute;</SAMP>
 337 <DD>
 338 Macedonian.
 339 <DT><SAMP>`ml&acute;</SAMP>
 340 <DD>
 341 Malayalam.
 342 <DT><SAMP>`mn&acute;</SAMP>
 343 <DD>
 344 Mongolian.
 345 <DT><SAMP>`mo&acute;</SAMP>
 346 <DD>
 347 Moldavian.
 348 <DT><SAMP>`mr&acute;</SAMP>
 349 <DD>
 350 Marathi.
 351 <DT><SAMP>`ms&acute;</SAMP>
 352 <DD>
 353 Malay.
 354 <DT><SAMP>`mt&acute;</SAMP>
 355 <DD>
 356 Maltese.
 357 <DT><SAMP>`my&acute;</SAMP>
 358 <DD>
 359 Burmese.
 360 <DT><SAMP>`na&acute;</SAMP>
 361 <DD>
 362 Nauru.
 363 <DT><SAMP>`nb&acute;</SAMP>
 364 <DD>
 365 Norwegian Bokm&aring;l.
 366 <DT><SAMP>`nd&acute;</SAMP>
 367 <DD>
 368 Ndebele, North.
 369 <DT><SAMP>`ne&acute;</SAMP>
 370 <DD>
 371 Nepali.
 372 <DT><SAMP>`ng&acute;</SAMP>
 373 <DD>
 374 Ndonga.
 375 <DT><SAMP>`nl&acute;</SAMP>
 376 <DD>
 377 Dutch.
 378 <DT><SAMP>`nn&acute;</SAMP>
 379 <DD>
 380 Norwegian Nynorsk.
 381 <DT><SAMP>`no&acute;</SAMP>
 382 <DD>
 383 Norwegian.
 384 <DT><SAMP>`nr&acute;</SAMP>
 385 <DD>
 386 Ndebele, South.
 387 <DT><SAMP>`nv&acute;</SAMP>
 388 <DD>
 389 Navajo.
 390 <DT><SAMP>`ny&acute;</SAMP>
 391 <DD>
 392 Chichewa; Nyanja.
 393 <DT><SAMP>`oc&acute;</SAMP>
 394 <DD>
 395 Occitan; Proven&ccedil;al.
 396 <DT><SAMP>`oj&acute;</SAMP>
 397 <DD>
 398 Ojibwa.
 399 <DT><SAMP>`om&acute;</SAMP>
 400 <DD>
 401 (Afan) Oromo.
 402 <DT><SAMP>`or&acute;</SAMP>
 403 <DD>
 404 Oriya.
 405 <DT><SAMP>`os&acute;</SAMP>
 406 <DD>
 407 Ossetian; Ossetic.
 408 <DT><SAMP>`pa&acute;</SAMP>
 409 <DD>
 410 Panjabi; Punjabi.
 411 <DT><SAMP>`pi&acute;</SAMP>
 412 <DD>
 413 Pali.
 414 <DT><SAMP>`pl&acute;</SAMP>
 415 <DD>
 416 Polish.
 417 <DT><SAMP>`ps&acute;</SAMP>
 418 <DD>
 419 Pashto, Pushto.
 420 <DT><SAMP>`pt&acute;</SAMP>
 421 <DD>
 422 Portuguese.
 423 <DT><SAMP>`qu&acute;</SAMP>
 424 <DD>
 425 Quechua.
 426 <DT><SAMP>`rm&acute;</SAMP>
 427 <DD>
 428 Rhaeto-Romance.
 429 <DT><SAMP>`rn&acute;</SAMP>
 430 <DD>
 431 Rundi; Kirundi.
 432 <DT><SAMP>`ro&acute;</SAMP>
 433 <DD>
 434 Romanian.
 435 <DT><SAMP>`ru&acute;</SAMP>
 436 <DD>
 437 Russian.
 438 <DT><SAMP>`rw&acute;</SAMP>
 439 <DD>
 440 Kinyarwanda.
 441 <DT><SAMP>`sa&acute;</SAMP>
 442 <DD>
 443 Sanskrit.
 444 <DT><SAMP>`sc&acute;</SAMP>
 445 <DD>
 446 Sardinian.
 447 <DT><SAMP>`sd&acute;</SAMP>
 448 <DD>
 449 Sindhi.
 450 <DT><SAMP>`se&acute;</SAMP>
 451 <DD>
 452 Northern Sami.
 453 <DT><SAMP>`sg&acute;</SAMP>
 454 <DD>
 455 Sango; Sangro.
 456 <DT><SAMP>`si&acute;</SAMP>
 457 <DD>
 458 Sinhalese.
 459 <DT><SAMP>`sk&acute;</SAMP>
 460 <DD>
 461 Slovak.
 462 <DT><SAMP>`sl&acute;</SAMP>
 463 <DD>
 464 Slovenian.
 465 <DT><SAMP>`sm&acute;</SAMP>
 466 <DD>
 467 Samoan.
 468 <DT><SAMP>`sn&acute;</SAMP>
 469 <DD>
 470 Shona.
 471 <DT><SAMP>`so&acute;</SAMP>
 472 <DD>
 473 Somali.
 474 <DT><SAMP>`sq&acute;</SAMP>
 475 <DD>
 476 Albanian.
 477 <DT><SAMP>`sr&acute;</SAMP>
 478 <DD>
 479 Serbian.
 480 <DT><SAMP>`ss&acute;</SAMP>
 481 <DD>
 482 Swati; Siswati.
 483 <DT><SAMP>`st&acute;</SAMP>
 484 <DD>
 485 Sesotho; Sotho, Southern.
 486 <DT><SAMP>`su&acute;</SAMP>
 487 <DD>
 488 Sundanese.
 489 <DT><SAMP>`sv&acute;</SAMP>
 490 <DD>
 491 Swedish.
 492 <DT><SAMP>`sw&acute;</SAMP>
 493 <DD>
 494 Swahili.
 495 <DT><SAMP>`ta&acute;</SAMP>
 496 <DD>
 497 Tamil.
 498 <DT><SAMP>`te&acute;</SAMP>
 499 <DD>
 500 Telugu.
 501 <DT><SAMP>`tg&acute;</SAMP>
 502 <DD>
 503 Tajik.
 504 <DT><SAMP>`th&acute;</SAMP>
 505 <DD>
 506 Thai.
 507 <DT><SAMP>`ti&acute;</SAMP>
 508 <DD>
 509 Tigrinya.
 510 <DT><SAMP>`tk&acute;</SAMP>
 511 <DD>
 512 Turkmen.
 513 <DT><SAMP>`tl&acute;</SAMP>
 514 <DD>
 515 Tagalog.
 516 <DT><SAMP>`tn&acute;</SAMP>
 517 <DD>
 518 Tswana; Setswana.
 519 <DT><SAMP>`to&acute;</SAMP>
 520 <DD>
 521 Tonga (?).
 522 <DT><SAMP>`tr&acute;</SAMP>
 523 <DD>
 524 Turkish.
 525 <DT><SAMP>`ts&acute;</SAMP>
 526 <DD>
 527 Tsonga.
 528 <DT><SAMP>`tt&acute;</SAMP>
 529 <DD>
 530 Tatar.
 531 <DT><SAMP>`tw&acute;</SAMP>
 532 <DD>
 533 Twi.
 534 <DT><SAMP>`ty&acute;</SAMP>
 535 <DD>
 536 Tahitian.
 537 <DT><SAMP>`ug&acute;</SAMP>
 538 <DD>
 539 Uighur.
 540 <DT><SAMP>`uk&acute;</SAMP>
 541 <DD>
 542 Ukrainian.
 543 <DT><SAMP>`ur&acute;</SAMP>
 544 <DD>
 545 Urdu.
 546 <DT><SAMP>`uz&acute;</SAMP>
 547 <DD>
 548 Uzbek.
 549 <DT><SAMP>`ve&acute;</SAMP>
 550 <DD>
 551 Venda.
 552 <DT><SAMP>`vi&acute;</SAMP>
 553 <DD>
 554 Vietnamese.
 555 <DT><SAMP>`vo&acute;</SAMP>
 556 <DD>
 557 Volap&uuml;k; Volapuk.
 558 <DT><SAMP>`wa&acute;</SAMP>
 559 <DD>
 560 Walloon.
 561 <DT><SAMP>`wo&acute;</SAMP>
 562 <DD>
 563 Wolof.
 564 <DT><SAMP>`xh&acute;</SAMP>
 565 <DD>
 566 Xhosa.
 567 <DT><SAMP>`yi&acute;</SAMP>
 568 <DD>
 569 Yiddish (formerly ji).
 570 <DT><SAMP>`yo&acute;</SAMP>
 571 <DD>
 572 Yoruba.
 573 <DT><SAMP>`za&acute;</SAMP>
 574 <DD>
 575 Zhuang.
 576 <DT><SAMP>`zh&acute;</SAMP>
 577 <DD>
 578 Chinese.
 579 <DT><SAMP>`zu&acute;</SAMP>
 580 <DD>
 581 Zulu.
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