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A.1 Usual Language Codes
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   For the commonly used languages, the ISO 639-1 standard defines
two-letter codes.

‘aa’
     Afar.
‘ab’
     Abkhazian.
‘ae’
     Avestan.
‘af’
     Afrikaans.
‘ak’
     Akan.
‘am’
     Amharic.
‘an’
     Aragonese.
‘ar’
     Arabic.
‘as’
     Assamese.
‘av’
     Avaric.
‘ay’
     Aymara.
‘az’
     Azerbaijani.
‘ba’
     Bashkir.
‘be’
     Belarusian.
‘bg’
     Bulgarian.
‘bh’
     Bihari languages.
‘bi’
     Bislama.
‘bm’
     Bambara.
‘bn’
     Bengali.
‘bo’
     Tibetan.
‘br’
     Breton.
‘bs’
     Bosnian.
‘ca’
     Catalan; Valencian.
‘ce’
     Chechen.
‘ch’
     Chamorro.
‘co’
     Corsican.
‘cr’
     Cree.
‘cs’
     Czech.
‘cu’
     Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old
     Church Slavonic.
‘cv’
     Chuvash.
‘cy’
     Welsh.
‘da’
     Danish.
‘de’
     German.
‘dv’
     Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian.
‘dz’
     Dzongkha.
‘ee’
     Ewe.
‘el’
     Greek, Modern (1453-).
‘en’
     English.
‘eo’
     Esperanto.
‘es’
     Spanish; Castilian.
‘et’
     Estonian.
‘eu’
     Basque.
‘fa’
     Persian.
‘ff’
     Fulah.
‘fi’
     Finnish.
‘fj’
     Fijian.
‘fo’
     Faroese.
‘fr’
     French.
‘fy’
     Western Frisian.
‘ga’
     Irish.
‘gd’
     Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic.
‘gl’
     Galician.
‘gn’
     Guarani.
‘gu’
     Gujarati.
‘gv’
     Manx.
‘ha’
     Hausa.
‘he’
     Hebrew.
‘hi’
     Hindi.
‘ho’
     Hiri Motu.
‘hr’
     Croatian.
‘ht’
     Haitian; Haitian Creole.
‘hu’
     Hungarian.
‘hy’
     Armenian.
‘hz’
     Herero.
‘ia’
     Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association).
‘id’
     Indonesian.
‘ie’
     Interlingue; Occidental.
‘ig’
     Igbo.
‘ii’
     Sichuan Yi; Nuosu.
‘ik’
     Inupiak.
‘io’
     Ido.
‘is’
     Icelandic.
‘it’
     Italian.
‘iu’
     Inuktitut.
‘ja’
     Japanese.
‘jv’
     Javanese.
‘ka’
     Georgian.
‘kg’
     Kongo.
‘ki’
     Kikuyu; Gikuyu.
‘kj’
     Kuanyama; Kwanyama.
‘kk’
     Kazakh.
‘kl’
     Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.
‘km’
     Central Khmer.
‘kn’
     Kannada.
‘ko’
     Korean.
‘kr’
     Kanuri.
‘ks’
     Kashmiri.
‘ku’
     Kurdish.
‘kv’
     Komi.
‘kw’
     Cornish.
‘ky’
     Kirghiz; Kyrgyz.
‘la’
     Latin.
‘lb’
     Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch.
‘lg’
     Ganda.
‘li’
     Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish.
‘ln’
     Lingala.
‘lo’
     Lao.
‘lt’
     Lithuanian.
‘lu’
     Luba-Katanga.
‘lv’
     Latvian.
‘mg’
     Malagasy.
‘mh’
     Marshallese.
‘mi’
     Maori.
‘mk’
     Macedonian.
‘ml’
     Malayalam.
‘mn’
     Mongolian.
‘mr’
     Marathi.
‘ms’
     Malay.
‘mt’
     Maltese.
‘my’
     Burmese.
‘na’
     Nauru.
‘nb’
     Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål.
‘nd’
     Ndebele, North; North Ndebele.
‘ne’
     Nepali.
‘ng’
     Ndonga.
‘nl’
     Dutch; Flemish.
‘nn’
     Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian.
‘no’
     Norwegian.
‘nr’
     Ndebele, South; South Ndebele.
‘nv’
     Navajo; Navaho.
‘ny’
     Chichewa; Nyanja.
‘oc’
     Occitan (post 1500); Provençal.
‘oj’
     Ojibwa.
‘om’
     Oromo.
‘or’
     Oriya.
‘os’
     Ossetian; Ossetic.
‘pa’
     Panjabi; Punjabi.
‘pi’
     Pali.
‘pl’
     Polish.
‘ps’
     Pushto; Pashto.
‘pt’
     Portuguese.
‘qu’
     Quechua.
‘rm’
     Romansh.
‘rn’
     Rundi.
‘ro’
     Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan.
‘ru’
     Russian.
‘rw’
     Kinyarwanda.
‘sa’
     Sanskrit.
‘sc’
     Sardinian.
‘sd’
     Sindhi.
‘se’
     Northern Sami.
‘sg’
     Sango.
‘si’
     Sinhala; Sinhalese.
‘sk’
     Slovak.
‘sl’
     Slovenian.
‘sm’
     Samoan.
‘sn’
     Shona.
‘so’
     Somali.
‘sq’
     Albanian.
‘sr’
     Serbian.
‘ss’
     Swati.
‘st’
     Sotho, Southern.
‘su’
     Sundanese.
‘sv’
     Swedish.
‘sw’
     Swahili.
‘ta’
     Tamil.
‘te’
     Telugu.
‘tg’
     Tajik.
‘th’
     Thai.
‘ti’
     Tigrinya.
‘tk’
     Turkmen.
‘tl’
     Tagalog.
‘tn’
     Tswana.
‘to’
     Tonga (Tonga Islands).
‘tr’
     Turkish.
‘ts’
     Tsonga.
‘tt’
     Tatar.
‘tw’
     Twi.
‘ty’
     Tahitian.
‘ug’
     Uighur; Uyghur.
‘uk’
     Ukrainian.
‘ur’
     Urdu.
‘uz’
     Uzbek.
‘ve’
     Venda.
‘vi’
     Vietnamese.
‘vo’
     Volapük.
‘wa’
     Walloon.
‘wo’
     Wolof.
‘xh’
     Xhosa.
‘yi’
     Yiddish.
‘yo’
     Yoruba.
‘za’
     Zhuang; Chuang.
‘zh’
     Chinese.
‘zu’
     Zulu.