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cs1|2 templates validate the content of |language= against language codes and names supported by MediaWiki. This page lists the language codes and names that MediaWiki supports. Language name and code pairs marked with a super-scripted dagger (^†) are codes / names that are overridden by codes / names defined in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration. See §Overridden codes / names. Use of language codes / names not found in these lists will cause Module:Citation/CS1 to place the article in Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language.

Nota bene: When evaluating the value assigned to |language=, Module:Citation/CS1 looks first in MediaWiki's list of language names before looking in the list of language tags. There are several languages that have tags that match the spelling of the language name: Fon (fon), Isu (isu), Luo (luo), tiv (tiv), vai (vai), Yao (yao). There are two where the language tag matches the spelling of another language's name:

ga – language tag for Irish matches spelling of Ga language (gaa)
ho – language tag for Hiri Motu matches spelling of Ho language (hoc)

When citing Irish- and Hiri Motu-language sources, use |language=Irish and |language=Hiri Motu.

2-character 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^†
bi: Bislama
bm: Bambara
bn: Bengali^†
bo: Tibetan
br: Breton
bs: Bosnian
ca: Catalan
ce: Chechen
ch: Chamorro
co: Corsican
cr: Cree
cs: Czech
cu: Church Slavic
cv: Chuvash
cy: Welsh
da: Danish
de: German
dv: Divehi
dz: Dzongkha
ee: Ewe
el: Greek
en: English
eo: Esperanto
es: Spanish
et: Estonian
eu: Basque
fa: Persian
ff: Fulah
fi: Finnish
fj: Fijian
fo: Faroese
fr: French
fy: Western Frisian
ga: Irish
gd: Scottish Gaelic
gl: Galician
gn: Guarani
gu: Gujarati
gv: Manx
ha: Hausa
he: Hebrew
hi: Hindi
ho: Hiri Motu
hr: Croatian
ht: Haitian Creole
hu: Hungarian
hy: Armenian
hz: Herero
ia: Interlingua
id: Indonesian
ie: Interlingue
ig: Igbo
ii: Sichuan Yi
ik: Inupiaq
io: Ido
is: Icelandic
it: Italian
iu: Inuktitut
ja: Japanese
jv: Javanese
ka: Georgian
kg: Kongo
ki: Kikuyu
kj: Kuanyama
kk: Kazakh
kl: Kalaallisut
km: Khmer
kn: Kannada
ko: Korean
kr: Kanuri
ks: Kashmiri
ku: Kurdish
kv: Komi
kw: Cornish
ky: Kyrgyz
la: Latin
lb: Luxembourgish
lg: Ganda
li: Limburgish
ln: Lingala
lo: Lao
lt: Lithuanian
lu: Luba-Katanga
lv: Latvian
mg: Malagasy
mh: Marshallese
mi: Maori
mk: Macedonian
ml: Malayalam
mn: Mongolian
mo: Moldovan
mr: Marathi
ms: Malay
mt: Maltese
my: Burmese
na: Nauru
nb: Norwegian Bokmål
nd: North Ndebele
ne: Nepali
ng: Ndonga
nl: Dutch
nn: Norwegian Nynorsk
no: Norwegian
nr: South Ndebele
nv: Navajo
ny: Nyanja
oc: Occitan
oj: Ojibwa
om: Oromo
or: Odia
os: Ossetic
pa: Punjabi
pi: Pali
pl: Polish
ps: Pashto
pt: Portuguese
qu: Quechua
rm: Romansh
rn: Rundi
ro: Romanian
ru: Russian
rw: Kinyarwanda
sa: Sanskrit
sc: Sardinian
sd: Sindhi
se: Northern Sami
sg: Sango
sh: Serbo-Croatian
si: Sinhala
sk: Slovak
sl: Slovenian
sm: Samoan
sn: Shona
so: Somali
sq: Albanian
sr: Serbian
ss: Swati
st: Southern Sotho
su: Sundanese
sv: Swedish
sw: Swahili
ta: Tamil
te: Telugu
tg: Tajik
th: Thai
ti: Tigrinya
tk: Turkmen
tl: Tagalog
tn: Tswana
to: Tongan
tr: Turkish
ts: Tsonga
tt: Tatar
tw: Twi
ty: Tahitian
ug: 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
zh: Chinese
zu: Zulu

3-character codes

abe: Western Abenaki
abq: Abaza
abs: Ambonese Malay
ace: Achinese
ach: Acoli
ada: Adangme
ady: Adyghe
aeb: Tunisian Arabic
afh: Afrihili
agq: Aghem
ain: Ainu
akk: Akkadian
akz: Alabama
alc: Kawésqar
ale: Aleut
aln: Gheg Albanian
als: Tosk Albanian^†
alt: Southern Altai
ami: Amis
ang: Old English
anp: Angika
arc: Aramaic
arn: Mapuche
aro: Araona
arp: Arapaho
arq: Algerian Arabic
ars: Najdi Arabic
arw: Arawak
ary: Moroccan Arabic
arz: Egyptian Arabic
asa: Asu
ase: American Sign Language
ast: Asturian
atj: Atikamekw
avk: Kotava
awa: Awadhi
azb: South Azerbaijani
bag: Tuki
bal: Baluchi
ban: Balinese
bar: Bavarian
bas: Basaa
bax: Bamun
bbc: Batak Toba
bbj: Ghomala
bcc: Southern Balochi
bci: Baoulé
bcl: Central Bikol
bdr: West Coast Bajau
bej: Beja
bem: Bemba
bew: Betawi
bez: Bena
bfd: Bafut
bfq: Badaga
bgn: Western Balochi
bgp: Eastern Balochi
bho: Bhojpuri
bik: Bikol
bin: Bini
bjn: Banjar
bkc: Baka
bkh: Bakako
bkm: Kom
bla: Blackfoot^†
blk: Pa'O
bnn: Bunun
bpy: Bishnupriya
bqi: Bakhtiari
bqz: Mka'a
bra: Braj
brh: Brahui
brx: Bodo
bss: Akoose
btm: Batak Mandailing
bto: Iriga Bicolano
bua: Buriat
bug: Buginese
bum: Bulu
bxr: Russia Buriat
byn: Blin
byv: Medumba
cad: Caddo
cak: Kaqchikel
cal: Carolinian
car: Carib
cay: Cayuga
cch: Atsam
ccp: Chakma
cdo: Min Dong Chinese
ceb: Cebuano
cgg: Chiga
chb: Chibcha
chg: Chagatai
chk: Chuukese
chm: Mari
chn: Chinook Jargon
cho: Choctaw
chp: Chipewyan
chr: Cherokee
chy: Cheyenne
cic: Chickasaw
cja: Western Cham
cjm: Eastern Cham
cjy: Jinyu
ckb: Central Kurdish
ckt: Chukchi
clc: Chilcotin
cnh: Hakha-Chin
cnr: Montenegrin
cop: Coptic
cps: Capiznon
crb: Island Carib
crh: Crimean Tatar
crl: East Cree
crs: Seselwa Creole French
csb: Kashubian
dag: Dagbani
dak: Dakota
dar: Dargwa
dav: Taita
del: Delaware
den: Slave
dgr: Dogrib
din: Dinka
diq: Zazaki
dje: Zarma
dlc: Dalecarlian
doi: Dogri
dru: Rukai
dsb: Lower Sorbian
dtp: Central Dusun
dty: Doteli
dua: Duala
dum: Middle Dutch
dyo: Jola-Fonyi
dyu: Dyula
dzg: Dazaga
ebu: Embu
efi: Efik
egl: Emilian
egy: Ancient Egyptian
eka: Ekajuk
elx: Elamite
eml: Emiliano-Romagnolo
enm: Middle English
esu: Central Yupik
eto: Eton
ett: Etruscian
etu: Ejagham
ewo: Ewondo
ext: Extremaduran
eya: Eyak
fan: Fang
fat: Fanti
fil: Filipino
fit: Tornedalen Finnish
fkv: Kven^†
fmp: Fe'Fe'
fon: Fon
fos: Siraya
frc: Cajun French
frm: Middle French
fro: Old French
frp: Arpitan
frr: Northern Frisian
frs: Eastern Frisian
fuf: Pular
fur: Friulian
gaa: Ga
gag: Gagauz
gan: Gan Chinese
gay: Gayo
gba: Gbaya
gbz: Zoroastrian Dari
gcr: Guianan Creole
gez: Geez
gil: Gilbertese
gld: Nanai
glk: Gilaki
gmh: Middle High German
gml: Middle Low German
gmy: Mycenaean Greek
goh: Old High German
gom: Goan Konkani
gon: Gondi
gor: Gorontalo
got: Gothic
gpe: Ghanaian Pidgin
grb: Grebo
grc: Ancient Greek
gsw: Swiss German^†
guc: Wayuu
gur: Frafra
guw: Gun
guz: Gusii
gwi: Gwichʼin
gya: Gbaya
hai: Haida
hak: Hakka Chinese
haw: Hawaiian
haz: Hazaragi
hbo: Biblical Hebrew
hif: Fiji Hindi
hil: Hiligaynon
hit: Hittite
hmn: Hmong
hrx: Hunsrik
hsb: Upper Sorbian
hsn: Xiang Chinese
hts: Hadza
hup: Hupa
hyw: Western Armenian
iba: Iban
ibb: Ibibio
ilo: Ilocano^†
inh: Ingush
isu: Isu
izh: Ingrian
jam: Jamaican Creole English
jbo: Lojban
jgo: Ngomba
jmc: Machame
jpr: Judeo-Persian
jrb: Judeo-Arabic
jut: Jutish
kaa: Kara-Kalpak
kab: Kabyle
kac: Kachin
kaj: Jju
kam: Kamba
kaw: Kawi
kbd: Kabardian
kbl: Kanembu
kbp: Kabiye
kcg: Tyap
kde: Makonde
kea: Kabuverdianu
ken: Kenyang
ker: Kera
kfo: Koro
kgp: Kaingang
kha: Khasi
kho: Khotanese
khq: Koyra Chiini
khw: Khowar
kiu: Kirmanjki
kjh: Khakas
kjp: Eastern Pwo
kkj: Kako
kld: Gamilaraay
kln: Kalenjin
kmb: Kimbundu
knn: Maharashtrian Konkani
koi: Komi-Permyak
kok: Konkani
kos: Kosraean
koy: Koyukon
kpe: Kpelle
krc: Karachay-Balkar
kri: Krio
krj: Kinaray-a
krl: Karelian
kru: Kurukh
ksb: Shambala
ksf: Bafia
ksh: Kölsch^†
ksw: S'gaw Karen
kum: Kumyk
kut: Kutenai
lad: Ladino
lag: Langi
lah: Lahnda
lam: Lamba
lbe: Lak
lcm: Tungag
lem: Nomaande
lez: Lezghian
lfn: Lingua Franca Nova
lij: Ligurian
liv: Livonian
lki: Laki
lkt: Lakota
lld: Ladin
lmo: Lombard
lns: Lamnso'
lol: Mongo
lou: Louisiana Creole
loz: Lozi
lrc: Northern Luri
ltg: Latgalian
lua: Luba-Lulua
lui: Luiseno
lun: Lunda
luo: Luo
lus: Mizo
luy: Luyia
luz: Southern Luri
lzh: Literary Chinese
lzz: Laz
mad: Madurese
maf: Mafa
mag: Magahi
mai: Maithili
mak: Makasar
man: Mandingo
mas: Masai
mcn: Massa
mcp: Maka
mde: Maba
mdf: Moksha
mdr: Mandar
men: Mende
mer: Meru
mfa: Kelantan-Pattani Malay
mfe: Morisyen
mga: Middle Irish
mgh: Makhuwa-Meetto
mgo: Metaʼ
mhr: Eastern Mari
mic: Mi'kmaq
mid: Mandaic
min: Minangkabau
mis: unsupported language
mix: Mixtec
mnc: Manchu
mni: Manipuri
mnw: Mon
moe: Innu
moh: Mohawk
mos: Mossi
mrh: Mara
mrj: Western Mari
mua: Mundang
mui: Musi
mul: multiple languages
mus: Muscogee
mwl: Mirandese
mwr: Marwari
mwv: Mentawai
mye: Myene
myv: Erzya
mzn: Mazanderani
nah: Nāhuatl
nan: Min Nan Chinese
nap: Neapolitan
naq: Nama
nds: Low German
new: Newari
nge: Ngémba
nia: Nias
niu: Niuean
njo: Ao Naga
nla: Ngombala
nmg: Kwasio
nmz: Nawdm
nnh: Ngiemboon
nnz: Nda'Nda'
nod: Northern Thai
nog: Nogai
non: Old Norse
nov: Novial
nqo: N’Ko
nrm: Norman
nsk: Naskapi
nso: Northern Sotho
nus: Nuer
nwc: Classical Newari
nxm: Numidian
nym: Nyamwezi
nyn: Nyankole
nyo: Nyoro
nys: Nyungar
nzi: Nzima
ojb: Northwestern Ojibwe
ojp: Old Japanese
olo: Livvi-Karelian
oma: Omaha-Ponca
ood: O'odham
osa: Osage
ota: Ottoman Turkish
otk: Old Turkish
pag: Pangasinan
pal: Pahlavi
pam: Pampanga
pap: Papiamento
pau: Palauan
pcd: Picard
pcm: Nigerian Pidgin
pdc: Pennsylvania German
pdt: Plautdietsch
peo: Old Persian
pfl: Palatine German
phn: Phoenician
pih: Norfuk / Pitkern
pjt: Pitjantjatjara
pms: Piedmontese
pnb: Western Punjabi
pnt: Pontic
pon: Pohnpeian
ppu: Papora-Hoanya
prg: Prussian
pro: Old Provençal
prs: Dari
pwn: Paiwan
pyu: Puyuma
quc: Kʼicheʼ
qug: Chimborazo Highland Quichua
qya: Quenya
rah: Rabha
raj: Rajasthani
rap: Rapanui
rar: Rarotongan
rgn: Romagnol
rif: Riffian
rmc: Carpathian Romani
rmf: Finnish Kalo
rmg: Traveller Norwegian
rml: Baltic Romani
rmn: Balkan Romani
rmo: Sinte Romani
rmw: Welsh-Romani
rmy: Vlax Romani
rof: Rombo
rom: Romany
rsk: Pannonian Rusyn
rtm: Rotuman
rue: Rusyn
rug: Roviana
rup: Aromanian
ruq: Megleno-Romanian
rwk: Rwa
rwr: Marwari (India)
ryu: Okinawan
sad: Sandawe
sah: Sakha
sam: Samaritan Aramaic
saq: Samburu
sas: Sasak
sat: Santali
saz: Saurashtra
sba: Ngambay
sbp: Sangu
scn: Sicilian
sco: Scots
sdc: Sassarese Sardinian
sdh: Southern Kurdish
see: Seneca
seh: Sena
sei: Seri
sel: Selkup
ses: Koyraboro Senni
sga: Old Irish
sgs: Samogitian
shi: Tachelhit
shn: Shan
shu: Chadian Arabic
shy: Shawiya
sia: Akkala Sámi
sid: Sidamo
sjd: Kildin Sami
sje: Pite Sami
sjk: Kemi Sámi
sjn: Sindarin
sjt: Ter Sámi
sju: Ume Sami
skr: Saraiki
sli: Lower Silesian
sly: Selayar
sma: Southern Sami
smj: Lule Sami
smn: Inari Sami
sms: Skolt Sami
snk: Soninke
sog: Sogdien
srn: Sranan Tongo
sro: Campidanese Sardinian
srq: Sirionó
srr: Serer
ssf: Thao
ssy: Saho
stq: Saterland Frisian
sty: Siberian Tatar
suk: Sukuma
sus: Susu
sux: Sumerian
swb: Comorian
syc: Classical Syriac
syl: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ
syr: Syriac
szl: Silesian
szy: Sakizaya
tay: Tayal
tcy: Tulu
tdd: Tai Nuea
tem: Timne
teo: Teso
ter: Tereno
tet: Tetum
tig: Tigre
tiv: Tiv
tkl: Tokelau
tkr: Tsakhur
tlb: Tobelo
tlh: Klingon
tli: Tlingit
tly: Talysh
tmh: Tamashek
tnq: Taíno
tog: Nyasa Tonga
tpi: Tok Pisin
tru: Turoyo
trv: Taroko
tsd: Tsakonian
tsi: Tsimshian
ttt: Muslim Tat
tum: Tumbuka
tvl: Tuvalu
tvu: Tunen
twq: Tasawaq
tyv: Tuvinian
tzl: Talossan
tzm: Central Atlas Tamazight
udm: Udmurt
uga: Ugaritic
umb: Umbundu
umu: Munsee
und: undetermined language
uun: Pazeh
vai: Vai
vec: Venetian
vep: Veps
vls: West Flemish
vmf: Main-Franconian
vmw: Makhuwa
vot: Votic
vro: Võro
vun: Vunjo
vut: Vute
wae: Walser
wal: Wolaytta
war: Waray
was: Washo
wbp: Warlpiri
wes: Pidgin (Cameroon)
wls: Wallisian
wuu: Wu Chinese
wya: Wyandot
xal: Kalmyk
xmf: Mingrelian
xog: Soga
xpu: Punic
xsy: Saisiyat
yao: Yao
yap: Yapese
yas: Nugunu
yat: Yambeta
yav: Yangben
ybb: Yemba
ykg: Tundra Yukaghir
yrl: Nheengatu
yue: Cantonese
zap: Zapotec
zbl: Blissymbols
zea: Zeelandic
zen: Zenaga
zgh: Standard Moroccan Tamazight
zun: Zuni
zxx: no linguistic content
zza: Zaza

IETF language tags

This list contains legitimate IETF language tags, tags that look like IETF tags but are not or are malformed, and 'codes' that are not codes. cs1|2 templates support most of these IETF-like tags.

IETF language tags (ISO 639-1)

These language tags have the form xx-yy... where xx is an ISO 639-1 language tag and yy... is a two-or-more-character subtag that specify country, script, or other information; be-x-old is an exception.

ar-001: Modern Standard Arabic
be-tarask: Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)
be-x-old: Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)
de-at: Austrian German
de-ch: Swiss High German
de-formal: German (formal address)
el-cy: Cypriot Greek
en-au: Australian English
en-ca: Canadian English
en-gb: British English
en-us: American English
es-419: Latin American Spanish
es-es: European Spanish
es-formal: Spanish (formal address)
es-mx: Mexican Spanish
fa-af: Dari
fr-ca: Canadian French
fr-ch: Swiss French
hu-formal: Hungarian (formal address)
ja-hani: Japanese (Kanji script)
ja-hira: Japanese (Hiragana script)
ja-hrkt: Japanese (Kana script)
ja-kana: Japanese (Katakana script)
kk-arab: Kazakh (Arabic script)
kk-cn: Kazakh (China)
kk-cyrl: Kazakh (Cyrillic script)
kk-kz: Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
kk-latn: Kazakh (Latin script)
kk-tr: Kazakh (Turkey)
ko-kp: Korean (North Korea)
ks-arab: Kashmiri (Arabic script)
ks-deva: Kashmiri (Devanagari script)
ku-arab: Kurdish (Arabic script)
ku-latn: Kurdish (Latin script)
ms-arab: Malay (Jawi script)
nl-be: Flemish
nl-informal: Dutch (informal address)
pi-sidd: Pali (Siddham script)
pt-br: Brazilian Portuguese
pt-pt: European Portuguese
rm-puter: Putèr
rm-rumgr: Rumantsch Grischun
rm-surmiran: Surmiran
rm-sursilv: Sursilvan
rm-sutsilv: Sutsilvan
rm-vallader: Vallader
ro-md: Moldavian
sa-sidd: Sanskrit (Siddham script)
se-fi: davvisámegiella (Suoma bealde)
se-no: davvisámegiella (Norgga bealde)
se-se: davvisámegiella (Ruoŧa bealde)
sr-ec: Serbian (Cyrillic script)^†
sr-el: Serbian (Latin script)^†
sr-me: Montenegrin
sw-cd: Congo Swahili
tg-cyrl: Tajik (Cyrillic script)
tg-latn: Tajik (Latin script)
tt-cyrl: Tatar (Cyrillic script)
tt-latn: Tatar (Latin script)
ug-arab: Uyghur (Arabic script)
ug-latn: Uyghur (Latin script)
uz-cyrl: Uzbek (Cyrillic script)
uz-latn: Uzbek (Latin script)
zh-classical: Classical Chinese
zh-cn: Chinese (China)
zh-hans: Simplified Chinese
zh-hant: Traditional Chinese
zh-hk: Chinese (Hong Kong)
zh-min-nan: Chinese (Min Nan)
zh-mo: Chinese (Macau)
zh-my: Chinese (Malaysia)
zh-sg: Chinese (Singapore)
zh-tw: Chinese (Taiwan)
zh-yue: Cantonese

IETF language tags (ISO 639-2, -3)

These language tags have the form xxx-yy... where xx is an ISO 639-2, -3 language tag and yy... is a two-or-more-character subtag that specify country, script, or other information.

abq-latn: Abaza
ady-cyrl: Adyghe (Cyrillic script)
aeb-arab: Tunisian Arabic (Arabic script)
aeb-latn: Tunisian Arabic (Latin script)
ban-bali: ᬩᬲᬩᬮᬶ
bat-smg: Samogitian
bbc-latn: Batak Toba (Latin script)
cbk-zam: Chavacano
cdo-hani: Min Dong Chinese (Hanji)
cja-arab: Western Cham (Arabic script)
cja-cham: Western Cham (Cham script)
cja-latn: Western Cham (Latin script)
cjm-arab: Eastern Cham (Arabic script)
cjm-cham: Eastern Cham (Cham script)
cjm-latn: Eastern Cham (Latin script)
cjy-hans: Jinyu (Simplified)
cjy-hant: Jinyu (Traditional)
crh-cyrl: Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic script)
crh-latn: Crimean Tatar (Latin script)
fiu-vro: võro
gan-hans: Gan (Simplified)
gan-hant: Gan (Traditional)
gom-deva: Goan Konkani (Devanagari script)
gom-latn: Goan Konkani (Latin script)
gsw-fr: Alsatian
hak-hans: Hakka (Simplified)
hak-hant: Hakka (Traditional)
hif-latn: Fiji Hindi (Latin script)
ike-cans: Eastern Canadian (Aboriginal syllabics)
ike-latn: Eastern Canadian (Latin script)
kbd-cyrl: Kabardian (Cyrillic script)
lij-mc: Monégasque
map-bms: Basa Banyumasan
nan-hani: Min Nan (Hanji)
nds-nl: Low Saxon
non-runr: Old Norse (Runic script)
nrf-gg: Guernésiais
nrf-je: Jèrriais
ojp-hani: Old Japanese (Kanji script)
ojp-hira: Old Japanese (Hiragana script)
osa-latn: Osage (Latin script)
pap-aw: Papiamento (Aruba)
phn-latn: Phoenician (Latin script)
phn-phnx: Phoenician (Phoenician script)
roa-rup: Aromanian
roa-tara: Tarantino
ruq-cyrl: Megleno-Romanian (Cyrillic script)
ruq-grek: Megleno-Romanian (Greek script)
ruq-latn: Megleno-Romanian (Latin script)
shi-latn: Tachelhit (Latin script)
shi-tfng: Tachelhit (Tifinagh script)
shy-arab: Shawiya (Arabic script)
shy-latn: Shawiya (Latin script)
shy-tfng: Shawiya (Tifinagh script)
skr-arab: Saraiki (Arabic script)
tlh-latn: Klingon (Latin script)
tlh-piqd: Klingon (Klingon script)
tly-cyrl: толыши

Language names

This list contains legitimate IETF language tags, tags that look like IETF tags but are not or are malformed, and 'codes' that are not codes. For these reasons, cs1|2 templates do not support IETF-like tags and associated names. When these names are used in |language=, cs1|2 will attempt to validate them but such attempts are not likely to succeed.

Abaza: abq
Abkhazian: ab
Achinese: ace
Acoli: ach
Adangme: ada
Adyghe (Cyrillic script): ady-cyrl
Adyghe: ady
Afar: aa
Afrihili: afh
Afrikaans: af
Aghem: agq
Ainu: ain
Akan: ak
Akkadian: akk
Akkala Sámi: sia
Akoose: bss
Alabama: akz
Albanian: sq
Aleut: ale
Algerian Arabic: arq
Alsatian: gsw-fr
Ambonese Malay: abs
American English: en-us
American Sign Language: ase
Amharic: am
Amis: ami
Ancient Egyptian: egy
Ancient Greek: grc
Angika: anp
Ao Naga: njo
Arabic: ar
Aragonese: an
Aramaic: arc
Araona: aro
Arapaho: arp
Arawak: arw
Armenian: hy
Aromanian: roa-rup
Arpitan: frp
Assamese: as
Asturian: ast
Asu: asa
Atikamekw: atj
Atsam: cch
Australian English: en-au
Austrian German: de-at
Avaric: av
Avestan: ae
Awadhi: awa
Aymara: ay
Azerbaijani: az
Badaga: bfq
Bafia: ksf
Bafut: bfd
Baka: bkc
Bakako: bkh
Bakhtiari: bqi
Balinese: ban
Balkan Romani: rmn
Baltic Romani: rml
Baluchi: bal
Bambara: bm
Bamun: bax
Banjar: bjn
Baoulé: bci
Basa Banyumasan: map-bms
Basaa: bas
Bashkir: ba
Basque: eu
Batak Mandailing: btm
Batak Toba (Latin script): bbc-latn
Batak Toba: bbc
Bavarian: bar
Beja: bej
Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography): be-x-old
Belarusian: be
Bemba: bem
Bena: bez
Bengali: bn^†
Betawi: bew
Bhojpuri: bho
Biblical Hebrew: hbo
Bihari: bh^†
Bikol: bik
Bini: bin
Bishnupriya: bpy
Bislama: bi
Blackfoot: bla^†
Blin: byn
Blissymbols: zbl
Bodo: brx
Bosnian: bs
Brahui: brh
Braj: bra
Brazilian Portuguese: pt-br
Breton: br
British English: en-gb
Buginese: bug
Bulgarian: bg
Bulu: bum
Bunun: bnn
Buriat: bua
Burmese: my
Caddo: cad
Cajun French: frc
Campidanese Sardinian: sro
Canadian English: en-ca
Canadian French: fr-ca
Cantonese: zh-yue
Capiznon: cps
Carib: car
Carolinian: cal
Carpathian Romani: rmc
Catalan: ca
Cayuga: cay
Cebuano: ceb
Central Atlas Tamazight: tzm
Central Bikol: bcl
Central Dusun: dtp
Central Kurdish: ckb
Central Yupik: esu
Chadian Arabic: shu
Chagatai: chg
Chakma: ccp
Chamorro: ch
Chavacano: cbk-zam
Chechen: ce
Cherokee: chr
Cheyenne: chy
Chibcha: chb
Chickasaw: cic
Chiga: cgg
Chilcotin: clc
Chimborazo Highland Quichua: qug
Chinese (China): zh-cn
Chinese (Hong Kong): zh-hk
Chinese (Macau): zh-mo
Chinese (Malaysia): zh-my
Chinese (Min Nan): zh-min-nan
Chinese (Singapore): zh-sg
Chinese (Taiwan): zh-tw
Chinese: zh
Chinook Jargon: chn
Chipewyan: chp
Choctaw: cho
Chukchi: ckt
Church Slavic: cu
Chuukese: chk
Chuvash: cv
Classical Chinese: zh-classical
Classical Newari: nwc
Classical Syriac: syc
Comorian: swb
Congo Swahili: sw-cd
Coptic: cop
Cornish: kw
Corsican: co
Cree: cr
Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic script): crh-cyrl
Crimean Tatar (Latin script): crh-latn
Crimean Tatar: crh
Croatian: hr
Cypriot Greek: el-cy
Czech: cs
Dagbani: dag
Dakota: dak
Dalecarlian: dlc
Danish: da
Dargwa: dar
Dari: prs
Dazaga: dzg
Delaware: del
Dinka: din
Divehi: dv
Dogri: doi
Dogrib: dgr
Doteli: dty
Duala: dua
Dutch (informal address): nl-informal
Dutch: nl
Dyula: dyu
Dzongkha: dz
East Cree: crl
Eastern Balochi: bgp
Eastern Canadian (Aboriginal syllabics): ike-cans
Eastern Canadian (Latin script): ike-latn
Eastern Cham (Arabic script): cjm-arab
Eastern Cham (Cham script): cjm-cham
Eastern Cham (Latin script): cjm-latn
Eastern Cham: cjm
Eastern Frisian: frs
Eastern Mari: mhr
Eastern Pwo: kjp
Efik: efi
Egyptian Arabic: arz
Ejagham: etu
Ekajuk: eka
Elamite: elx
Embu: ebu
Emilian: egl
Emiliano-Romagnolo: eml
English: en
Erzya: myv
Esperanto: eo
Estonian: et
Eton: eto
Etruscian: ett
European Portuguese: pt-pt
European Spanish: es-es
Ewe: ee
Ewondo: ewo
Extremaduran: ext
Eyak: eya
Fang: fan
Fanti: fat
Faroese: fo
Fe'Fe': fmp
Fiji Hindi (Latin script): hif-latn
Fiji Hindi: hif
Fijian: fj
Filipino: fil
Finnish Kalo: rmf
Finnish: fi
Flemish: nl-be
Fon: fon
Frafra: gur
French: fr
Friulian: fur
Fulah: ff
Ga: gaa
Gagauz: gag
Galician: gl
Gamilaraay: kld
Gan (Simplified): gan-hans
Gan (Traditional): gan-hant
Gan Chinese: gan
Ganda: lg
Gayo: gay
Gbaya: gya
Geez: gez
Georgian: ka
German (formal address): de-formal
German: de
Ghanaian Pidgin: gpe
Gheg Albanian: aln
Ghomala: bbj
Gilaki: glk
Gilbertese: gil
Goan Konkani (Devanagari script): gom-deva
Goan Konkani (Latin script): gom-latn
Goan Konkani: gom
Gondi: gon
Gorontalo: gor
Gothic: got
Grebo: grb
Greek: el
Guarani: gn
Guernésiais: nrf-gg
Guianan Creole: gcr
Gujarati: gu
Gun: guw
Gusii: guz
Gwichʼin: gwi
Hadza: hts
Haida: hai
Haitian Creole: ht
Hakha-Chin: cnh
Hakka (Simplified): hak-hans
Hakka (Traditional): hak-hant
Hakka Chinese: hak
Hausa: ha
Hawaiian: haw
Hazaragi: haz
Hebrew: he
Herero: hz
Hiligaynon: hil
Hindi: hi
Hiri Motu: ho
Hittite: hit
Hmong: hmn
Hungarian (formal address): hu-formal
Hungarian: hu
Hunsrik: hrx
Hupa: hup
Iban: iba
Ibibio: ibb
Icelandic: is
Ido: io
Igbo: ig
Ilocano: ilo^†
Inari Sami: smn
Indonesian: id
Ingrian: izh
Ingush: inh
Innu: moe
Interlingua: ia
Interlingue: ie
Inuktitut: iu
Inupiaq: ik
Iriga Bicolano: bto
Irish: ga
Island Carib: crb
Isu: isu
Italian: it
Jamaican Creole English: jam
Japanese (Hiragana script): ja-hira
Japanese (Kana script): ja-hrkt
Japanese (Kanji script): ja-hani
Japanese (Katakana script): ja-kana
Japanese: ja
Javanese: jv
Jinyu (Simplified): cjy-hans
Jinyu (Traditional): cjy-hant
Jinyu: cjy
Jju: kaj
Jola-Fonyi: dyo
Judeo-Arabic: jrb
Judeo-Persian: jpr
Jutish: jut
Jèrriais: nrf-je
Kabardian (Cyrillic script): kbd-cyrl
Kabardian: kbd
Kabiye: kbp
Kabuverdianu: kea
Kabyle: kab
Kachin: kac
Kaingang: kgp
Kako: kkj
Kalaallisut: kl
Kalenjin: kln
Kalmyk: xal
Kamba: kam
Kanembu: kbl
Kannada: kn
Kanuri: kr
Kaqchikel: cak
Kara-Kalpak: kaa
Karachay-Balkar: krc
Karelian: krl
Kashmiri (Arabic script): ks-arab
Kashmiri (Devanagari script): ks-deva
Kashmiri: ks
Kashubian: csb
Kawi: kaw
Kawésqar: alc
Kazakh (Arabic script): kk-arab
Kazakh (China): kk-cn
Kazakh (Cyrillic script): kk-cyrl
Kazakh (Kazakhstan): kk-kz
Kazakh (Latin script): kk-latn
Kazakh (Turkey): kk-tr
Kazakh: kk
Kelantan-Pattani Malay: mfa
Kemi Sámi: sjk
Kenyang: ken
Kera: ker
Khakas: kjh
Khasi: kha
Khmer: km
Khotanese: kho
Khowar: khw
Kikuyu: ki
Kildin Sami: sjd
Kimbundu: kmb
Kinaray-a: krj
Kinyarwanda: rw
Kirmanjki: kiu
Klingon (Klingon script): tlh-piqd
Klingon (Latin script): tlh-latn
Klingon: tlh
Kom: bkm
Komi-Permyak: koi
Komi: kv
Kongo: kg
Konkani: kok
Korean (North Korea): ko-kp
Korean: ko
Koro: kfo
Kosraean: kos
Kotava: avk
Koyra Chiini: khq
Koyraboro Senni: ses
Koyukon: koy
Kpelle: kpe
Krio: kri
Kuanyama: kj
Kumyk: kum
Kurdish (Arabic script): ku-arab
Kurdish (Latin script): ku-latn
Kurdish: ku
Kurukh: kru
Kutenai: kut
Kven: fkv^†
Kwasio: nmg
Kyrgyz: ky
Kölsch: ksh^†
Kʼicheʼ: quc
Ladin: lld
Ladino: lad
Lahnda: lah
Lak: lbe
Laki: lki
Lakota: lkt
Lamba: lam
Lamnso': lns
Langi: lag
Lao: lo
Latgalian: ltg
Latin American Spanish: es-419
Latin: la
Latvian: lv
Laz: lzz
Lezghian: lez
Ligurian: lij
Limburgish: li
Lingala: ln
Lingua Franca Nova: lfn
Literary Chinese: lzh
Lithuanian: lt
Livonian: liv
Livvi-Karelian: olo
Lojban: jbo
Lombard: lmo
Louisiana Creole: lou
Low German: nds
Low Saxon: nds-nl
Lower Silesian: sli
Lower Sorbian: dsb
Lozi: loz
Luba-Katanga: lu
Luba-Lulua: lua
Luiseno: lui
Lule Sami: smj
Lunda: lun
Luo: luo
Luxembourgish: lb
Luyia: luy
Maba: mde
Macedonian: mk
Machame: jmc
Madurese: mad
Mafa: maf
Magahi: mag
Maharashtrian Konkani: knn
Main-Franconian: vmf
Maithili: mai
Maka: mcp
Makasar: mak
Makhuwa-Meetto: mgh
Makhuwa: vmw
Makonde: kde
Malagasy: mg
Malay (Jawi script): ms-arab
Malay: ms
Malayalam: ml
Maltese: mt
Manchu: mnc
Mandaic: mid
Mandar: mdr
Mandingo: man
Manipuri: mni
Manx: gv
Maori: mi
Mapuche: arn
Mara: mrh
Marathi: mr
Mari: chm
Marshallese: mh
Marwari (India): rwr
Marwari: mwr
Masai: mas
Massa: mcn
Mazanderani: mzn
Medumba: byv
Megleno-Romanian (Cyrillic script): ruq-cyrl
Megleno-Romanian (Greek script): ruq-grek
Megleno-Romanian (Latin script): ruq-latn
Megleno-Romanian: ruq
Mende: men
Mentawai: mwv
Meru: mer
Metaʼ: mgo
Mexican Spanish: es-mx
Mi'kmaq: mic
Middle Dutch: dum
Middle English: enm
Middle French: frm
Middle High German: gmh
Middle Irish: mga
Middle Low German: gml
Min Dong Chinese (Hanji): cdo-hani
Min Dong Chinese: cdo
Min Nan (Hanji): nan-hani
Min Nan Chinese: nan
Minangkabau: min
Mingrelian: xmf
Mirandese: mwl
Mixtec: mix
Mizo: lus
Mka'a: bqz
Modern Standard Arabic: ar-001
Mohawk: moh
Moksha: mdf
Moldavian: ro-md
Moldovan: mo
Mon: mnw
Mongo: lol
Mongolian: mn
Montenegrin: cnr
Monégasque: lij-mc
Morisyen: mfe
Moroccan Arabic: ary
Mossi: mos
Mundang: mua
Munsee: umu
Muscogee: mus
Musi: mui
Muslim Tat: ttt
Mycenaean Greek: gmy
Myene: mye
Najdi Arabic: ars
Nama: naq
Nanai: gld
Naskapi: nsk
Nauru: na
Navajo: nv
Nawdm: nmz
Nda'Nda': nnz
Ndonga: ng
Neapolitan: nap
Nepali: ne
Newari: new
Ngambay: sba
Ngiemboon: nnh
Ngomba: jgo
Ngombala: nla
Ngémba: nge
Nheengatu: yrl
Nias: nia
Nigerian Pidgin: pcm
Niuean: niu
Nogai: nog
Nomaande: lem
Norfuk / Pitkern: pih
Norman: nrm
North Ndebele: nd
Northern Frisian: frr
Northern Luri: lrc
Northern Sami: se
Northern Sotho: nso
Northern Thai: nod
Northwestern Ojibwe: ojb
Norwegian Bokmål: nb
Norwegian Nynorsk: nn
Norwegian: no
Novial: nov
Nuer: nus
Nugunu: yas
Numidian: nxm
Nyamwezi: nym
Nyanja: ny
Nyankole: nyn
Nyasa Tonga: tog
Nyoro: nyo
Nyungar: nys
Nzima: nzi
Nāhuatl: nah
N’Ko: nqo
O'odham: ood
Occitan: oc
Odia: or
Ojibwa: oj
Okinawan: ryu
Old English: ang
Old French: fro
Old High German: goh
Old Irish: sga
Old Japanese (Hiragana script): ojp-hira
Old Japanese (Kanji script): ojp-hani
Old Japanese: ojp
Old Norse (Runic script): non-runr
Old Norse: non
Old Persian: peo
Old Provençal: pro
Old Turkish: otk
Omaha-Ponca: oma
Oromo: om
Osage (Latin script): osa-latn
Osage: osa
Ossetic: os
Ottoman Turkish: ota
Pa'O: blk
Pahlavi: pal
Paiwan: pwn
Palatine German: pfl
Palauan: pau
Pali (Siddham script): pi-sidd
Pali: pi
Pampanga: pam
Pangasinan: pag
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk
Papiamento (Aruba): pap-aw
Papiamento: pap
Papora-Hoanya: ppu
Pashto: ps
Pazeh: uun
Pennsylvania German: pdc
Persian: fa
Phoenician (Latin script): phn-latn
Phoenician (Phoenician script): phn-phnx
Phoenician: phn
Picard: pcd
Pidgin (Cameroon): wes
Piedmontese: pms
Pite Sami: sje
Pitjantjatjara: pjt
Plautdietsch: pdt
Pohnpeian: pon
Polish: pl
Pontic: pnt
Portuguese: pt
Prussian: prg
Pular: fuf
Punic: xpu
Punjabi: pa
Putèr: rm-puter
Puyuma: pyu
Quechua: qu
Quenya: qya
Rabha: rah
Rajasthani: raj
Rapanui: rap
Rarotongan: rar
Riffian: rif
Romagnol: rgn
Romanian: ro
Romansh: rm
Romany: rom
Rombo: rof
Rotuman: rtm
Roviana: rug
Rukai: dru
Rumantsch Grischun: rm-rumgr
Rundi: rn
Russia Buriat: bxr
Russian: ru
Rusyn: rue
Rwa: rwk
S'gaw Karen: ksw
Saho: ssy
Saisiyat: xsy
Sakha: sah
Sakizaya: szy
Samaritan Aramaic: sam
Samburu: saq
Samoan: sm
Samogitian: sgs
Sandawe: sad
Sango: sg
Sangu: sbp
Sanskrit (Siddham script): sa-sidd
Sanskrit: sa
Santali: sat
Saraiki (Arabic script): skr-arab
Saraiki: skr
Sardinian: sc
Sasak: sas
Sassarese Sardinian: sdc
Saterland Frisian: stq
Saurashtra: saz
Scots: sco
Scottish Gaelic: gd
Selayar: sly
Selkup: sel
Sena: seh
Seneca: see
Serbian (Cyrillic script): sr-ec^†
Serbian (Latin script): sr-el^†
Serbian: sr
Serbo-Croatian: sh
Serer: srr
Seri: sei
Seselwa Creole French: crs
Shambala: ksb
Shan: shn
Shawiya (Arabic script): shy-arab
Shawiya (Latin script): shy-latn
Shawiya (Tifinagh script): shy-tfng
Shawiya: shy
Shona: sn
Siberian Tatar: sty
Sichuan Yi: ii
Sicilian: scn
Sidamo: sid
Silesian: szl
Simplified Chinese: zh-hans
Sindarin: sjn
Sindhi: sd
Sinhala: si
Sinte Romani: rmo
Siraya: fos
Sirionó: srq
Skolt Sami: sms
Slave: den
Slovak: sk
Slovenian: sl
Soga: xog
Sogdien: sog
Somali: so
Soninke: snk
South Azerbaijani: azb
South Ndebele: nr
Southern Altai: alt
Southern Balochi: bcc
Southern Kurdish: sdh
Southern Luri: luz
Southern Sami: sma
Southern Sotho: st
Spanish (formal address): es-formal
Spanish: es
Sranan Tongo: srn
Standard Moroccan Tamazight: zgh
Sukuma: suk
Sumerian: sux
Sundanese: su
Surmiran: rm-surmiran
Sursilvan: rm-sursilv
Susu: sus
Sutsilvan: rm-sutsilv
Swahili: sw
Swati: ss
Swedish: sv
Swiss French: fr-ch
Swiss German: gsw^†
Swiss High German: de-ch
Syriac: syr
Tachelhit (Latin script): shi-latn
Tachelhit (Tifinagh script): shi-tfng
Tachelhit: shi
Tagalog: tl
Tahitian: ty
Tai Nuea: tdd
Taita: dav
Tajik (Cyrillic script): tg-cyrl
Tajik (Latin script): tg-latn
Tajik: tg
Talossan: tzl
Talysh: tly
Tamashek: tmh
Tamil: ta
Tarantino: roa-tara
Taroko: trv
Tasawaq: twq
Tatar (Cyrillic script): tt-cyrl
Tatar (Latin script): tt-latn
Tatar: tt
Tayal: tay
Taíno: tnq
Telugu: te
Ter Sámi: sjt
Tereno: ter
Teso: teo
Tetum: tet
Thai: th
Thao: ssf
Tibetan: bo
Tigre: tig
Tigrinya: ti
Timne: tem
Tiv: tiv
Tlingit: tli
Tobelo: tlb
Tok Pisin: tpi
Tokelau: tkl
Tongan: to
Tornedalen Finnish: fit
Tosk Albanian: als^†
Traditional Chinese: zh-hant
Traveller Norwegian: rmg
Tsakhur: tkr
Tsakonian: tsd
Tsimshian: tsi
Tsonga: ts
Tswana: tn
Tuki: bag
Tulu: tcy
Tumbuka: tum
Tundra Yukaghir: ykg
Tunen: tvu
Tungag: lcm
Tunisian Arabic (Arabic script): aeb-arab
Tunisian Arabic (Latin script): aeb-latn
Tunisian Arabic: aeb
Turkish: tr
Turkmen: tk
Turoyo: tru
Tuvalu: tvl
Tuvinian: tyv
Twi: tw
Tyap: kcg
Udmurt: udm
Ugaritic: uga
Ukrainian: uk
Umbundu: umb
Ume Sami: sju
Upper Sorbian: hsb
Urdu: ur
Uyghur (Arabic script): ug-arab
Uyghur (Latin script): ug-latn
Uyghur: ug
Uzbek (Cyrillic script): uz-cyrl
Uzbek (Latin script): uz-latn
Uzbek: uz
Vai: vai
Vallader: rm-vallader
Venda: ve
Venetian: vec
Veps: vep
Vietnamese: vi
Vlax Romani: rmy
Volapük: vo
Votic: vot
Vunjo: vun
Vute: vut
Võro: vro
Wallisian: wls
Walloon: wa
Walser: wae
Waray: war
Warlpiri: wbp
Washo: was
Wayuu: guc
Welsh-Romani: rmw
Welsh: cy
West Coast Bajau: bdr
West Flemish: vls
Western Abenaki: abe
Western Armenian: hyw
Western Balochi: bgn
Western Cham (Arabic script): cja-arab
Western Cham (Cham script): cja-cham
Western Cham (Latin script): cja-latn
Western Cham: cja
Western Frisian: fy
Western Mari: mrj
Western Punjabi: pnb
Wolaytta: wal
Wolof: wo
Wu Chinese: wuu
Wyandot: wya
Xhosa: xh
Xiang Chinese: hsn
Yambeta: yat
Yangben: yav
Yao: yao
Yapese: yap
Yemba: ybb
Yiddish: yi
Yoruba: yo
Zapotec: zap
Zarma: dje
Zaza: zza
Zazaki: diq
Zeelandic: zea
Zenaga: zen
Zhuang: za
Zoroastrian Dari: gbz
Zulu: zu
Zuni: zun
davvisámegiella (Norgga bealde): se-no
davvisámegiella (Ruoŧa bealde): se-se
davvisámegiella (Suoma bealde): se-fi
multiple languages: mul
no linguistic content: zxx
undetermined language: und
unsupported language: mis
võro: fiu-vro
толыши: tly-cyrl
ᬩᬲᬩᬮᬶ: ban-bali
ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ: syl

Overridden codes / names

Codes and names marked with a super-scripted dagger (^†) are overridden by cs1|2:

Alemannisch – not an ISO 639 language name; when encountered, cs1|2 treats this as gsw Swiss German
als – MediaWiki returns Alemannisch (als is the subdomain for the Alemannisch Wikipedia: als.wikipedia.org); cs1|2 uses the ISO 639-3 definition: Tosk Albanian
bh – MediaWiki returns Bhojpuri (bh is the subdomain for the Bhojpuri Wikipedia: bh.wikipedia.org); cs1|2 uses a modified form of the ISO 639-1 definition: Bihari languages
Bhojpuri – ISO 639 language code for this language is bho; MediaWiki returns the Bihari languages code: bh; cs1|2 uses the correct code bho
Blackfoot – not an ISO 639 language name; when encountered, cs1|2 treats this as bla Blackfoot
bn – MediaWiki returns Bangla which is the language endonym; cs1|2 uses the ISO 639-3 definition (the exonym form): Bengali
crh – MediaWiki returns Crimean Tatar; cs1|2 uses the ISO 639-3 definition: Crimean Tatar
fkv – MediaWiki returns Kvensk; cs1|2 uses the English Wikipedia's preferred definition: Kven
ilo – MediaWiki returns Iloko; cs1|2 uses the English Wikipedia's preferred definition: Ilocano
ksh – MediaWiki returns Colognian; cs1|2 uses the ISO 639-3 definition: Kölsch
ksh-x-colog – Colognian; there is no ISO 639 code for this language
mis-x-ripuar – Ripuarian; there is no ISO 639 code for this language
nan-tw – Taiwanese Hokkien; to distinguish from nan (Min Nan Chinese)
Valencian – not an ISO 639 language name; cs1|2 uses an IETF language tag ca-valencia, the Valencian variant of Catalan: Valencian

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