Language Codes: ISO 639, Microsoft and Macintosh

1996.12.19	Mark Davis	First version
1997.04.14	Mark Davis	Updates based on feedback from Michael Everson
1997.07.08	Mark Davis	Updates from K.D. Chang (Microsoft)

The following is a draft list of language code correspondences between ISO codes, Microsoft codes, and Macintosh codes. (USMARC language and country codes are not included in this list).

The correspondences are not 1-1. Macintosh codes sometimes have two variants, depending on the script the language is written. In such cases, the script is indicated in parantheses in the name (where not clear from the name itself), with a one-letter abbreviation on the code.

Unfortunately, ISO codes are not stable, and have changed over time. There are currently three languages with multiple codes (for Hebrew, Indonesian, and Yiddish). So that you can communicate both with new and old software, one strategy is the following:

When reading: always read and interpret both of the variants
When writing: always write the first (oldest) one

If you find an error in this information, please send email describing it to errata@unicode.org. This is an archival address; you should not expect a response. Please note, however, that the Unicode Consortium does not own or maintain ISO 639 and neither bears responsibility for its contents nor has the ability to change them. Please do not contact the Unicode Consortium if the ISO 639 language names are not what you believe they should be.

Language	ISO Code	Win Code	Mac Name	Mac Code
Abkhazian	ab
Afar	aa
Afrikaans	af	0x0036
Albanian	sq	0x001c	langAlbanian	36
Amharic	am		langAmharic	85
Arabic	ar	0x0001	langArabic	12
Armenian	hy		langArmenian	51
Assamese	as		langAssamese	68
Aymara	ay		langAymara	134
Azerbaijani	az		langAzerbaijani(Latin), langAzerbaijanAr(Arabic)	49(L), 50(A)
Bashkir	ba
Basque	eu	0x002d	langBasque	129
Bengali (Bangla)	bn		langBengali	67
Bhutani	dz		langDzongkha	137
Bihari	bh
Bislama	bi
Breton	br		langBreton	142
Bulgarian	bg	0x0002	langBulgarian	44
Burmese	my		langBurmese	77
Byelorussian	be	0x0023	langByelorussian	46
Cambodian	km		langKhmer	78
Catalan	ca	0x0003	langCatalan	130
Chewa			langChewa	92
Chinese	zh	0x0004	langTradChinese, langSimpChinese	19(T), 33(S)
Corsican	co
Croatian	hr	0x001a	langCroatian	18
Czech	cs	0x0005	langCzech	38
Danish	da	0x0006	langDanish	7
Dutch	nl	0x0013	langDutch	4
English	en	0x0009	langEnglish	0
Esperanto	eo		langEsperanto	94
Estonian	et	0x0025	langEstonian	27
Faeroese	fo	0x0038	langFaeroese	30
Farsi	fa	0x0029	langFarsi, langPersian	31
Fiji	fj
Finnish	fi	0x000b	langFinnish	13
Flemish			langFlemish	34
French	fr	0x000c	langFrench	1
Frisian	fy
Galician	gl
Galla			langGalla	87
Georgian	ka		langGeorgian	52
German	de	0x0007	langGerman	2
Greek	el	0x0008	langGreek	14
Greenlandic	kl
Guarani	gn		langGuarani	133
Gujarati	gu		langGujarati	69
Hausa	ha
Hebrew	iw, he	0x000d	langHebrew	10
Hindi	hi	0x0039	langHindi	21
Hungarian	hu	0x000e	langHungarian	26
Icelandic	is	0x000f	langIcelandic	15
Indonesian	in, id	0x0021	langIndonesian	81
Interlingua	ia
Interlingue	ie
Inuktitut	iu		langInuktitut	143
Inupiak	ik
Irish	ga		langIrish	35
Italian	it	0x0010	langItalian	3
Japanese	ja	0x0011	langJapanese	11
Javanese	jw		langJavaneseRom	138
Kannada	kn		langKannada	73
Kashmiri	ks		langKashmiri	61
Kazakh	kk		langKazakh	48
Kinyarwanda	rw
Kirghiz	ky		langKirghiz	54
Kirundi	rn
Korean	ko	0x0012	langKorean	23
Kurdish	ku		langKurdish	60
Laothian	lo		langLao	79
Lappish			langLappish, langSaamisk	29
Latin	la		langLatin	131
Latvian (Lettish)	lv	0x0026	langLatvian	28
Lingala	ln
Lithuanian	lt	0x0027	langLithuanian	24
Macedonian	mk	0x002f	langMacedonian	43
Malagasy	mg		langMalagasy	93
Malay	ms	0x003e	langMalayRoman(Latin), langMalayArabic(Arabic)	83(L), 84(A)
Malayalam	ml		langMalayalam	72
Maltese	mt		langMaltese	16
Manx Gaelic	gv*		langGailck	141
Maori	mi
Marathi	mr		langMarathi	66
Moldavian	mo		langMoldavian	53
Mongolian	mn		langMongolian(Mongolian), langMongolianCyr(Cyrillic)	57(M), 58(C)
Nauru	na
Nepali	ne		langNepali	64
Norwegian	no	0x0014	langNorwegian	9
Occitan	oc
Oriya	or		langOriya	71
Oromo (Afan)	om		langOromo	87
Pashto (Pushto)	ps		langPashto	59
Polish	pl	0x0015	langPolish	25
Portuguese	pt	0x0016	langPortuguese	8
Punjabi	pa		langPunjabi	70
Quechua	qu		langQuechua	132
Rhaeto-Romance	rm
Romanian	ro	0x0018	langRomanian	37
Ruanda			langRuanda	90
Rundi			langRundi	91
Russian	ru	0x0019	langRussian	32
Samoan	sm
Sangro	sg
Sanskrit	sa		langSanskrit	65
Scots Gaelic	gd		langGaidhlig	140
Serbian	sr	0x001a	langSerbian	42
Serbo-Croatian	sh
Sesotho	st
Setswana	tn
Shona	sn
Sindhi	sd		langSindhi	62
Singhalese	si		langSinhalese	76
Siswati	ss
Slovak	sk	0x001b	langSlovak	39
Slovenian	sl	0x0024	langSlovenian	40
Somali	so		langSomali	88
Spanish	es	0x000a	langSpanish	6
Sundanese	su		langSundaneseRom	139
Swahili	sw	0x0041	langSwahili	89
Swedish	sv	0x001d	langSwedish	5
Tagalog	tl		langTagalog	82
Tajik	tg		langTajiki	55
Tamil	ta		langTamil	74
Tatar	tt		langTatar	135
Telugu	te		langTelugu	75
Thai	th	0x001e	langThai	22
Tibetan	bo		langTibetan	63
Tigrinya	ti		langTigrinya	86
Tonga	to
Tsonga	ts
Turkish	tr	0x001f	langTurkish	17
Turkmen	tk		langTurkmen	56
Twi	tw
Uighur	ug		langUighur	136
Ukrainian	uk	0x0022	langUkrainian	45
Urdu	ur	0x0020	langUrdu	20
Uzbek	uz		langUzbek	47
Vietnamese	vi	0x002a	langVietnamese	80
Volap�k	vo
Welsh	cy		langWelsh	128
Wolof	wo
Xhosa	xh
Yiddish	ji, yi		langYiddish	41
Yoruba	yo
Zulu	zu

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