Effective: September 30, 2007
Revised: April 18, 2008
LANGUAGE CODES
* Indigenous Language of the Americas
** Pacific Island Language
| CODE | LANGUAGE |
|---|---|
| AB | Abkhazian |
| AC * | Abnaki |
| AD * | Achimawi |
| AA | Afar |
| AK | Afrikaans |
| AE * | Ahtena |
| EF | Akan |
| EK | Akateko |
| AF * | Alabama |
| AL | Albanian, Shqip |
| AG * | Aleut |
| AH * | Algonquian |
| WJ | American Sign Language |
| AM | Amharic |
| AI * | Apache |
| AR | Arabic |
| AJ * | Arapaho |
| AO * | Araucanian |
| AP * | Arikara |
| AN | Armenian, Hayeren |
| AS | Assamese |
| AQ * | Athapascan |
| AT * | Atsina |
| AU * | Atsugewi |
| AV * | Aucanian |
| WK | Awadhi |
| AW * | Aymara |
| AZ | Azerbaijani |
| AX * | Aztec |
| BA | Bantu |
| BC | Bashkir |
| BQ | Basque, Euskera |
| BJ | Belarusian |
| BE | Bengali, Bangla |
| BR | Berber |
| BP | Bhojpuri |
| DZ | Bhutani |
| BH | Bihari |
| BI | Bislama |
| BG * | Blackfoot |
| BF | Breton |
| BL | Bulgarian |
| BU | Burmese, Myanmasa |
| BD | Byelorussian |
| CB * | Caddo |
| CC * | Cahuilla |
| CD * | Cakchiquel |
| CA | Cambodian, Khmer |
| CN | Cantonese |
| EC ** | Carolinian |
| CT | Catalan |
| CE * | Cayuga |
| ZA | Cebuano |
| ED ** | Chamorro |
| CF * | Chasta Costa |
| CG * | Chemeheuvi |
| CI * | Cherokee |
| CJ * | Chetemacha |
| CK * | Cheyenne |
| ZB | Chhattisgarhi |
| ZC | Chinese, Hakka |
| ZD | Chinese, Min Nau (Fukienese or Fujianese) |
| CH | Chinese, Zhongwen |
| CL * | Chinook Jargon |
| CM * | Chiricahua |
| ZE | Chittagonian |
| CP * | Chiwere |
| CQ * | Choctaw |
| CS * | Chumash |
| EE ** | Chuukese/Trukese |
| CU * | Clallam |
| CV * | Coast Miwok |
| CW * | Cocomaricopa |
| CX * | Coeur D'Alene |
| CY * | Columbia |
| DF * | Comanche |
| CO | Corsican |
| DG * | Cowlitz |
| DJ * | Cree |
| ZF | Creole |
| HR | Croatian, Hrvatski |
| DK * | Crow |
| DH * | Cuna |
| DI * | Cupeno |
| CZ | Czech |
| DB * | Dakota |
| DA | Danish |
| DL | Deccan |
| DC * | Delaware |
| DD * | Delta River Yuman |
| DE * | Diegueno |
| DU | Dutch, Netherlands |
| DO | Dzongkha |
| EN | English |
| EA * | Eskimo |
| EO | Esperanto |
| ES | Estonian |
| EB * | Eyak |
| FO | Faroese |
| FA | Farsi, Persian |
| FJ | Fijian |
| FL | Filipino |
| FI | Finnish, Suomi |
| FB * | Foothill North Yokuts |
| FC * | Fox |
| FR | French |
| FD * | French Cree |
| FY | Frisian |
| FU | Fulfulde, Nigerian |
| GL | Galician |
| KA | Georgian, Kartuli |
| GE | German |
| GR | Greek |
| KL | Greenlandic, Kalaallisut |
| GF ** | Guamanian |
| GB * | Guarani |
| GC * | Guaymi |
| GU | Gujarati |
| HB * | Haida |
| HC | Haitian-Creole (includes French-Creole) |
| HD * | Han |
| HY | Haryanvi |
| HA | Hausa |
| HF * | Havasupai |
| HE | Hebrew, Iwrith |
| HG * | Hichita |
| HH * | Hidatsa |
| HL | Hiligaynon |
| HI | Hindi |
| HM | Hmong |
| HJ * | Hopi |
| HU | Hungarian, Magyar |
| HK * | Hupa |
| IC | Icelandic, Islenzk |
| IO | Igbo |
| IL | Ilacano |
| IG * | Indian |
| IN | Indonesian, Bahasa Indonesia |
| IH * | Ingalit |
| IA | Interlingua |
| IE | Interlingue |
| IB * | Inupiak |
| GA | Irish, Gaeilge |
| ID * | Iroquois |
| IF * | Island Carib |
| IT | Italian |
| JC | Jamaican Creole (includes Patois and Patwa) |
| JA | Japanese, Nihongo |
| JW | Javanese, Bahasa Jawa |
| JB * | Jicarilla |
| KX* | Kanjoval |
| KV | Kannada |
| KD * | Kalispel |
| KE * | Kansa |
| KF * | Karok |
| KC * | Kawaiisu |
| KS | Kashmiri |
| KK | Kazakh |
| KG * | Keres |
| KH * | Kickapoo |
| RW | Kinyarwanda |
| KI * | Kiowa |
| KJ * | Kiowa-Apache |
| KY | Kirghiz, Kyrgyz |
| RN | Kirundi |
| KB * | Klamath |
| KM * | Koasati |
| KO | Korean, Choson-o |
| KT ** | Kosraen |
| KZ | Kpelle (Guerze) |
| KP * | Kuchin |
| KU | Kurdish, Zimany Kurdy |
| KQ * | Kutenai |
| KR * | Kwakiutl |
| LO | Lamnso |
| LA | Laotian, Pha Xa Lao |
| LB | Latin |
| LV | Latvian, Lettish |
| LN | Lingala |
| LI | Lithuanian |
| LM | Lombard |
| LC * | Lower Chehalis |
| LD * | Luiseno |
| MB | Macedonian |
| NJ | Madura |
| XI | Magahi |
| XN * | Maidu |
| XJ | Maithili |
| ME * | Makah |
| MA | Malagasy |
| ML | Malayalam |
| MS | Malay, Bahasa Malaysia |
| MT | Maltese |
| MF * | Mam |
| MD | Mandarin |
| MG * | Mandan |
| NR | Maori |
| MR | Marathi |
| MZ ** | Marshallese |
| XK | Marwari |
| MH * | Maya |
| MJ * | Menomini |
| MM * | Miami |
| MN * | Micmac |
| MP * | Mikasuki |
| XO * | Miwok |
| MQ * | Mixtec |
| MU * | Mohave |
| MV * | Mohawk |
| MC | Moldavian |
| MO | Mongolian |
| MW * | Mono |
| MX * | Mountain Maidu |
| MY * | Muskogee |
| NS | Napoletano-Calabrese |
| NA | Nauru |
| NB * | Navaho |
| NE | Nepali |
| NC * | Nez Perce |
| ND * | Nomlaki |
| NF * | Nootka |
| NG * | Nootsack |
| NH * | Northern Paiute |
| NI * | Northwest Maidu |
| NO | Norwegian |
| OC | Occitan |
| OA * | Ojibwa |
| OB * | Okanogan |
| OD * | Omaha |
| OE * | Oneida |
| OF * | Onondaga |
| OR | Oriya |
| OM | (Afan) Oromo |
| OG * | Osage |
| OH * | Other Athapascan-Eyak |
| OI * | Ottawa |
| PB * | Pacific Gulf Yupik |
| PC * | Paiute |
| PU ** | Palauan |
| PX | Pamiamento |
| PD * | Panamint |
| PJ | Panjabi, Punjabi |
| PA | Pashto (includes Pushtu) |
| PF * | Passamaquoddy |
| PG * | Patwin |
| PH * | Pawnee |
| PK * | Penobscot |
| PL * | Picuris |
| PM * | Pima |
| PN * | Plains Miwok |
| PV ** | Pohnpeians |
| PO | Polish |
| PP * | Pomo |
| PQ * | Ponca |
| PR | Portuguese |
| PS * | Potawatomi |
| PT * | Puget Sound Salish |
| OJ * | Quapaw |
| OK * | Quechua |
| OL * | Quekchi |
| ON * | Quiche |
| OO * | Quinault |
| RA | Rhaeto-Romance |
| RM | Rumanian, Romanian |
| RS | Russian |
| RB | Rwanda |
| SB * | Sahaptian |
| SF * | Saint Lawrence Island Yupik |
| SQ * | Salish |
| SM ** | Samoan |
| SV * | San Carlos |
| SS * | Sandia |
| SG | Sangho |
| SA | Sanskrit |
| SX * | Santiam |
| XQ | Saraiki |
| GD | Scots Gaelic |
| SY * | Seneca |
| SZ * | Serrano |
| SK | Serbian, Srpski |
| SR | Serbo-Croatian |
| ST | Sesotho |
| TN | Setswana |
| VA * | Shastan |
| VB * | Shawnee |
| SN | Shona |
| VC * | Shoshoni |
| VD * | Sierra Miwok |
| SD | Sindhi |
| SC | Singhalese |
| XL | Sinhala |
| SI | Siswati |
| VE * | Siuslaw |
| SL | Slovak |
| SJ | Slovenian |
| SO | Somali |
| VF * | Southern Maidu |
| VG * | Southern Paiute |
| SP | Spanish |
| VH * | Spokane |
| SU | Sudanese |
| SH | Swahili |
| SW | Swedish, Svenska |
| TF * | Tachi |
| TA | Tagalog |
| TG | Tajik |
| TB | Tamil |
| TJ * | Tanacross |
| TL * | Tanaina |
| TM * | Tanana |
| TP * | Tarahumara |
| TQ * | Tarascan |
| TT | Tatar |
| TE | Telugu |
| TR * | Tewa |
| TH | Thai |
| TI | Tibetan, Bodskad |
| TC | Tigrinya |
| TV * | Tillamook |
| TX * | Tiwa |
| TY * | Tlingit |
| TO | Tonga |
| XA * | Tonkawa |
| TZ * | Towa |
| XB * | Tsimshian |
| TS | Tsonga |
| XC * | Tubatulabal |
| XD * | Tupi |
| TU | Turkish |
| TK | Turkmen |
| XE * | Tuscarora |
| XF * | Tutchone |
| XG * | Twana |
| TD | Twi |
| UK | Ukrainian |
| UB * | Upland Yuman |
| UC * | Upper Chehalis |
| UD * | Upper Chinook |
| UE * | Upper Kuskokwim |
| UF * | Upper Tanana |
| UA * | Up River Yuman |
| UR | Urdu |
| UG * | Ute |
| UY | Uyghur |
| UZ | Uzbek |
| VI | Vietnamese |
| VS | Visayan |
| VO | Volapuk |
| WA * | Walapai |
| WB * | Wappo |
| WC * | Washo |
| WE | Welsh |
| WD * | Wichita |
| WF * | Winnebago |
| WG * | Wintun |
| WH * | Wiyot |
| WO | Wolof |
| WI * | Wyandot |
| XH | Xhosa |
| YK ** | Yapese |
| YA * | Yaqui |
| YB * | Yavapai |
| YI | Yiddish, Jiddisch |
| YO | Yoruba |
| YC * | Yuchi |
| YD * | Yuki |
| YE * | Yuma |
| YF * | Yupik |
| YG * | Yurok |
| YH * | Zapotec |
| ZH | Zhuan, Northern |
| ZU | Zulu |
| YJ * | Zuni |
| OT | Other |
| ZZ | Not Applicable |