ONIX Code Lists Issue 11
List 74: Language code - ISO 639-2/B

Value Description Notes Issue

aar Afar 0
abk Abkhaz 0
ace Achinese 0
ach Acoli 0
ada Adangme 0
ady Adygei 0
afa Afroasiatic languages 0
afh Afrihili (Artificial language) 0
afr Afrikaans 0
ain Ainu 5
aka Akan 0
akk Akkadian 0
alb Albanian 0
ale Aleut 0
alg Algonquian languages 0
alt Southern Altai 5
amh Amharic 0
ang English, Old (ca. 450-1100) 0
anp Angika 7
apa Apache languages 0
ara Arabic 0
arc Official Aramaic; Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) 0
arg Aragonese Spanish 0
arm Armenian 0
arn Mapudungun; Mapuche 0
arp Arapaho 0
art Artificial languages 0
arw Arawak 0
asm Assamese 0
ast Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese 0
ath Athapascan languages 0
aus Australian languages 0
ava Avaric 0
ave Avestan 0
awa Awadhi 0
aym Aymara 0
aze Azerbaijani 0
bad Banda languages 0
bai Bamileke languages 0
bak Bashkir 0
bal Baluchi 0
bam Bambara 0
ban Balinese 0
baq Basque 0
bas Basa 0
bat Baltic languages 0
bej Beja; Bedawiyet 0
bel Belarusian 0
bem Bemba 0
ben Bengali 0
ber Berber languages 0
bho Bhojpuri 0
bih Bihari 0
bik Bikol 0
bin Bini; Edo 0
bis Bislama 0
bla Siksika 0
bnt Bantu languages 0
bos Bosnian 0
bra Braj 0
bre Breton 0
btk Batak languages 0
bua Buriat 0
bug Bugis 0
bul Bulgarian 0
bur Burmese 0
byn Blin; Bilin 4
cad Caddo 0
cai Central American Indian languages 0
car Galibi Carib 0
cat Catalan 0
cau Caucasian languages 0
ceb Cebuano 0
cel Celtic languages 0
cha Chamorro 0
chb Chibcha 0
che Chechen 0
chg Chagatai 0
chi Chinese 0
chk Truk 0
chm Mari 0
chn Chinook jargon 0
cho Choctaw 0
chp Chipewyan; Dene Suline 0
chr Cherokee 0
chu Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic 0
chv Chuvash 0
chy Cheyenne 0
cmc Chamic languages 0
cop Coptic 0
cor Cornish 0
cos Corsican 0
cpe Creoles and pidgins, English-based 0
cpf Creoles and pidgins, French-based 0
cpp Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based 0
cre Cree 0
crh Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar 0
crp Creoles and pidgins 0
csb Kashubian 4
cus Cushitic languages 0
cze Czech 0
dak Dakota 0
dan Danish 0
dar Dargwa 0
day Land Dayak languages 0
del Delaware 0
den Slave 0
dgr Dogrib 0
din Dinka 0
div Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian 0
doi Dogri 0
dra Dravidian languages 0
dsb Lower Sorbian 4
dua Duala 0
dum Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) 0
dut Dutch; Flemish 0
dyu Dyula 0
dzo Dzongkha 0
efi Efik 0
egy Egyptian 0
eka Ekajuk 0
elx Elamite 0
eng English 0
enm English, Middle (1100-1500) 0
epo Esperanto 0
est Estonian 0
ewe Ewe 0
ewo Ewondo 0
fan Fang 0
fao Faroese 0
fat Fanti 0
fij Fijian 0
fil Filipino; Pilipino 4
fin Finnish 0
fiu Finno-Ugrian languages 0
fon Fon 0
fre French 0
frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) 0
fro French, Old (ca. 842-1400) 0
frr Northern Frisian 7
frs Eastern Frisian 7
fry Western Frisian 7
ful Fula 0
fur Friulian 0
gaa 0
gay Gayo 0
gba Gbaya 0
gem Germanic languages 0
geo Georgian 0
ger German 0
gez Ethiopic 0
gil Gilbertese 0
gla Scottish Gaelic 0
gle Irish 0
glg Galician 0
glv Manx 0
gmh German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) 0
goh German, Old High (ca. 750-1050) 0
gon Gondi 0
gor Gorontalo 0
got Gothic 0
grb Grebo 0
grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 0
gre Greek, Modern (1453-) 0
grn Guarani 0
gsw Swiss German; Alemannic 7
guj Gujarati 0
gwi Gwich'in 0
hai Haida 0
hat Haitian French Creole 0
hau Hausa 0
haw Hawaiian 0
heb Hebrew 0
her Herero 0
hil Hiligaynon 0
him Himachali 0
hin Hindi 0
hit Hittite 0
hmn Hmong 0
hmo Hiri Motu 0
hrv Croatian 10
hsb Upper Sorbian 4
hun Hungarian 0
hup Hupa 0
iba Iban 0
ibo Igbo 0
ice Icelandic 0
ido Ido 0
iii Sichuan Yi; Nuosu 0
ijo Ijo languages 0
iku Inuktitut 0
ile Interlingue; Occidental 0
ilo Iloko 0
ina Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) 0
inc Indic languages 0
ind Indonesian 0
ine Indo-European languages 0
inh Ingush 0
ipk Inupiaq 0
ira Iranian languages 0
iro Iroquoian languages 0
ita Italian 0
jav Javanese 0
jbo Lojban 4
jpn Japanese 0
jpr Judeo-Persian 0
jrb Judeo-Arabic 0
kaa Kara-Kalpak 0
kab Kabyle 0
kac Kachin; Jingpho 0
kal Kalâtdlisut 0
kam Kamba 0
kan Kannada 0
kar Karen languages 0
kas Kashmiri 0
kau Kanuri 0
kaw Kawi 0
kaz Kazakh 0
kbd Kabardian 0
kha Khasi 0
khi Khoisan languages 0
khm Central Khmer 0
kho Khotanese; Sakan 0
kik Kikuyu; Gikuyu 0
kin Kinyarwanda 0
kir Kirghiz; Kyrgyz 0
kmb Kimbundu 0
kok Konkani 0
kom Komi 0
kon Kongo 0
kor Korean 0
kos Kusaie 0
kpe Kpelle 0
krc Karachay-Balkar 4
krl Karelian 7
kro Kru languages 0
kru Kurukh 0
kua Kuanyama 0
kum Kumyk 0
kur Kurdish 0
kut Kutenai 0
lad Ladino 0
lah Lahnda 0
lam Lamba 0
lao Lao 0
lat Latin 0
lav Latvian 0
lez Lezgian 0
lim Limburgish 0
lin Lingala 0
lit Lithuanian 0
lol Mongo-Nkundu 0
loz Lozi 0
ltz Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch 0
lua Luba-Lulua 0
lub Luba-Katanga 0
lug Ganda 0
lui Luiseño 0
lun Lunda 0
luo Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) 0
lus Lushai 0
mac Macedonian 0
mad Madurese 0
mag Magahi 0
mah Marshall 0
mai Maithili 0
mak Makasar 0
mal Malayalam 0
man Mandingo 0
mao Maori 0
map Austronesian languages 0
mar Marathi 0
mas Masai 0
may Malay 0
mdf Moksha 4
mdr Mandar 0
men Mende 0
mga Irish, Middle (ca. 1100-1550) 0
mic Mi'kmaq; Micmac 0
min Minangkabau 0
mis Uncoded languages 0
mkh Mon-Khmer languages 0
mlg Malagasy 0
mlt Maltese 0
mnc Manchu 0
mni Manipuri 0
mno Manobo languages 0
moh Mohawk 0
mol Moldavian; Moldovan DEPRECATED - use rum 10
mon Mongolian 0
mos Mooré 0
mul Multiple languages 0
mun Munda languages 0
mus Creek 0
mwl Mirandese 4
mwr Marwari 0
myn Mayan languages 0
myv Erzya 4
nah Nahuatl languages 0
nai North American Indian languages 0
nap Neapolitan 0
nau Nauru 0
nav Navajo 0
nbl Ndebele, South 0
nde Ndebele, North 0
ndo Ndonga 0
nds Low German; Low Saxon 0
nep Nepali 0
new Newari 0
nia Nias 0
nic Niger-Kordofanian languages 0
niu Niuean 0
nno Norwegian Nynorsk 5
nob Norwegian Bokmål 5
nog Nogai 0
non Old Norse 0
nor Norwegian 0
nqo N'Ko 7
nso Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho 0
nub Nubian languages 0
nwc Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa 4
nya Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja 0
nym Nyamwezi 0
nyn Nyankole 0
nyo Nyoro 0
nzi Nzima 0
oci Occitan (post 1500) 0
oji Ojibwa 0
ori Oriya 0
orm Oromo 0
osa Osage 0
oss Ossetian; Ossetic 0
ota Turkish, Ottoman 0
oto Otomian languages 0
paa Papuan languages 0
pag Pangasinan 0
pal Pahlavi 0
pam Pampanga; Kapampangan 0
pan Panjabi 0
pap Papiamento 0
pau Palauan 0
peo Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.) 0
per Persian 0
phi Philippine languages 0
phn Phoenician 0
pli Pali 0
pol Polish 0
pon Ponape 0
por Portuguese 0
pra Prakrit languages 0
pro Provençal (to 1500);Occitan, Old (to 1500) 0
pus Pushto; Pashto 0
qar Aranés ONIX local code 6
qav Valencian ONIX local code 5
que Quechua 0
raj Rajasthani 0
rap Rapanui 0
rar Rarotongan; Cook Islands Maori 0
roa Romance languages 0
roh Romansh 0
rom Romany 0
rum Romanian 0
run Rundi 0
rup Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian 5
rus Russian 0
sad Sandawe 0
sag Sango 0
sah Yakut 0
sai South American Indian languages 0
sal Salishan languages 0
sam Samaritan Aramaic 0
san Sanskrit 0
sas Sasak 0
sat Santali 0
scc Serbian DEPRECATED - use srp 10
scn Sicilian 4
sco Scots 0
scr Croatian DEPRECATED - use hrv 10
sel Selkup 0
sem Semitic languages 0
sga Irish, Old (to 1100) 0
sgn Sign languages 0
shn Shan 0
sid Sidamo 0
sin Sinhala; Sinhalese 0
sio Siouan languages 0
sit Sino-Tibetan languages 0
sla Slavic languages 0
slo Slovak 0
slv Slovenian 0
sma Southern Sami 0
sme Northern Sami 0
smi Sami languages 0
smj Lule Sami 0
smn Inari Sami 0
smo Samoan 0
sms Skolt Sami 0
sna Shona 0
snd Sindhi 0
snk Soninke 0
sog Sogdian 0
som Somali 0
son Songhai languages 0
sot Sotho AKA Sesotho 0
spa Spanish 0
srd Sardinian 0
srn Sranan Tongo 7
srp Serbian 10
srr Serer 0
ssa Nilo-Saharan languages 0
ssw Swazi AKA Swati, siSwati 0
suk Sukuma 0
sun Sundanese 0
sus Susu 0
sux Sumerian 0
swa Swahili 0
swe Swedish 0
syc Classical Syriac 8
syr Syriac 0
tah Tahitian 0
tai Tai languages 0
tam Tamil 0
tat Tatar 0
tel Telugu 0
tem Temne 0
ter Terena 0
tet Tetum 0
tgk Tajik 0
tgl Tagalog 0
tha Thai 0
tib Tibetan 0
tig Tigré 0
tir Tigrinya 0
tiv Tiv 0
tkl Tokelauan 0
tlh Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol 4
tli Tlingit 0
tmh Tamashek 0
tog Tonga (Nyasa) 0
ton Tongan 0
tpi Tok Pisin 0
tsi Tsimshian 0
tsn Tswana AKA Setswana 0
tso Tsonga 0
tuk Turkmen 0
tum Tumbuka 0
tup Tupi languages 0
tur Turkish 0
tut Altaic languages 0
tvl Tuvaluan 0
twi Twi 0
tyv Tuvinian 0
udm Udmurt 0
uga Ugaritic 0
uig Uighur; Uyghur 0
ukr Ukrainian 0
umb Umbundu 0
und Undetermined 0
urd Urdu 0
uzb Uzbek 0
vai Vai 0
ven Venda 0
vie Vietnamese 0
vol Volapük 0
vot Votic 0
wak Wakashan languages 0
wal Wolaitta; Wolaytta 0
war Waray 0
was Washo 0
wel Welsh 0
wen Sorbian languages 0
wln Walloon 0
wol Wolof 0
xal Kalmyk 0
xho Xhosa 0
yao Yao 0
yap Yapese 0
yid Yiddish 0
yor Yoruba 0
ypk Yupik languages 0
zap Zapotec 0
zbl Blissymbols; Blissymbolics; Bliss 8
zen Zenaga 0
zha Zhuang; Chuang 0
znd Zande languages 0
zul Zulu 0
zun Zuni 0
zxx No linguistic content 10
zza Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki 7