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abk ab Abkhazian ace Achinese ach Acoli ada Adangme aar aa Afar afh Afrihili afr af Afrikaans afa Afro-Asiatic (Other) aka Akan akk Akkadian alb/sqi sq Albanian ale Aleut alg Algonquian languages tut Altaic (Other) amh am Amharic apa Apache languages ara ar Arabic arc Aramaic arp Arapaho arn Araucanian arw Arawak arm/hye hy Armenian art Artificial (Other) asm as Assamese ath Athapascan languages map Austronesian (Other) ava Avaric ave Avestan awa Awadhi aym ay Aymara aze az Azerbaijani nah Aztec ban Balinese bat Baltic (Other) bal Baluchi bam Bambara bai Bamileke languages bad Banda bnt Bantu (Other) bas Basa bak ba Bashkir baq/eus eu Basque bej Beja bem Bemba ben bn Bengali ber Berber (Other) bho Bhojpuri bih bh Bihari bik Bikol bin Bini bis bi Bislama bra Braj bre be Breton bug Buginese bul bg Bulgarian bua Buriat bur/mya my Burmese bel be Byelorussian cad Caddo car Carib cat ca Catalan cau Caucasian (Other) ceb Cebuano cel Celtic (Other) cai Central American Indian (Other) chg Chagatai cha Chamorro che Chechen chr Cherokee chy Cheyenne chb Chibcha chi/zho zh Chinese chn Chinook jargon cho Choctaw chu Church Slavic chv Chuvash cop Coptic cor Cornish cos co Corsican cre Cree mus Creek crp Creoles and Pidgins (Other) cpe Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other) cpf Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other) cpp Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other) cus Cushitic (Other) hr Croatian ces/cze cs Czech dak Dakota dan da Danish del Delaware din Dinka div Divehi doi Dogri dra Dravidian (Other) dua Duala dut/nla nl Dutch dum Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) dyu Dyula dzo dz Dzongkha efi Efik egy Egyptian (Ancient) eka Ekajuk elx Elamite eng en English enm English, Middle (ca. 1100-1500) ang English, Old (ca. 450-1100) esk Eskimo (Other) epo eo Esperanto est et Estonian ewe Ewe ewo Ewondo fan Fang fat Fanti fao fo Faroese fij fj Fijian fin fi Finnish fiu Finno-Ugrian (Other) fon Fon fra/fre fr French frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) fro French, Old (842- ca. 1400) fry fy Frisian ful Fulah gaa Ga gae/gdh Gaelic (Scots) glg gl Gallegan lug Ganda gay Gayo gez Geez geo/kat ka Georgian deu/ger de German gmh German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) goh German, Old High (ca. 750-1050) gem Germanic (Other) gil Gilbertese gon Gondi got Gothic grb Grebo grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453) ell/gre el Greek, Modern (1453-) kal kl Greenlandic grn gn Guarani guj gu Gujarati hai Haida hau ha Hausa haw Hawaiian heb he Hebrew her Herero hil Hiligaynon him Himachali hin hi Hindi hmo Hiri Motu hun hu Hungarian hup Hupa iba Iban ice/isl is Icelandic ibo Igbo ijo Ijo ilo Iloko inc Indic (Other) ine Indo-European (Other) ind id Indonesian ina ia Interlingua (International Auxiliary language Association) ine - Interlingue iku iu Inuktitut ipk ik Inupiak ira Iranian (Other) gai/iri ga Irish sga Irish, Old (to 900) mga Irish, Middle (900 - 1200) iro Iroquoian languages ita it Italian jpn ja Japanese jav/jaw jv/jw Javanese jrb Judeo-Arabic jpr Judeo-Persian kab Kabyle kac Kachin kam Kamba kan kn Kannada kau Kanuri kaa Kara-Kalpak kar Karen kas ks Kashmiri kaw Kawi kaz kk Kazakh kha Khasi khm km Khmer khi Khoisan (Other) kho Khotanese kik Kikuyu kin rw Kinyarwanda kir ky Kirghiz kom Komi kon Kongo kok Konkani kor ko Korean kpe Kpelle kro Kru kua Kuanyama kum Kumyk kur ku Kurdish kru Kurukh kus Kusaie kut Kutenai lad Ladino lah Lahnda lam Lamba oci oc Langue d'Oc (post 1500) lao lo Lao lat la Latin lav lv Latvian ltz Letzeburgesch lez Lezghian lin ln Lingala lit lt Lithuanian loz Lozi lub Luba-Katanga lui Luiseno lun Lunda luo Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) mac/mak mk Macedonian mad Madurese mag Magahi mai Maithili mak Makasar mlg mg Malagasy may/msa ms Malay mal Malayalam mlt ml Maltese man Mandingo mni Manipuri mno Manobo languages max Manx mao/mri mi Maori mar mr Marathi chm Mari mah Marshall mwr Marwari mas Masai myn Mayan languages men Mende mic Micmac min Minangkabau mis Miscellaneous (Other) moh Mohawk mol mo Moldavian mkh Mon-Kmer (Other) lol Mongo mon mn Mongolian mos Mossi mul Multiple languages mun Munda languages nau na Nauru nav Navajo nde Ndebele, North nbl Ndebele, South ndo Ndongo nep ne Nepali new Newari nic Niger-Kordofanian (Other) ssa Nilo-Saharan (Other) niu Niuean non Norse, Old nai North American Indian (Other) nor no Norwegian nno Norwegian (Nynorsk) nub Nubian languages nym Nyamwezi nya Nyanja nyn Nyankole nyo Nyoro nzi Nzima oji Ojibwa ori or Oriya orm om Oromo osa Osage oss Ossetic oto Otomian languages pal Pahlavi pau Palauan pli Pali pam Pampanga pag Pangasinan pan pa Panjabi pap Papiamento paa Papuan-Australian (Other) fas/per fa Persian peo Persian, Old (ca 600 - 400 B.C.) phn Phoenician pol pl Polish pon Ponape por pt Portuguese pra Prakrit languages pro Provencal, Old (to 1500) pus ps Pushto que qu Quechua roh rm Rhaeto-Romance raj Rajasthani rar Rarotongan roa Romance (Other) ron/rum ro Romanian rom Romany run rn Rundi rus ru Russian sal Salishan languages sam Samaritan Aramaic smi Sami languages smo sm Samoan sad Sandawe sag sg Sango san sa Sanskrit srd Sardinian sco Scots sel Selkup sem Semitic (Other) sr Serbian scr sh Serbo-Croatian srr Serer shn Shan sna sn Shona sid Sidamo bla Siksika snd sd Sindhi sin si Singhalese sit - Sino-Tibetan (Other) sio Siouan languages sla Slavic (Other) ssw ss Siswant slk/slo sk Slovak slv sl Slovenian sog Sogdian som so Somali son Songhai wen Sorbian languages nso Sotho, Northern sot st Sotho, Southern sai South American Indian (Other) esl/spa es Spanish suk Sukuma sux Sumerian sun su Sudanese sus Susu swa sw Swahili ssw Swazi sve/swe sv Swedish syr Syriac tgl tl Tagalog tah Tahitian tgk tg Tajik tmh Tamashek tam ta Tamil tat tt Tatar tel te Telugu ter Tereno tha th Thai bod/tib bo Tibetan tig Tigre tir ti Tigrinya tem Timne tiv Tivi tli Tlingit tog to Tonga (Nyasa) ton Tonga (Tonga Islands) tru Truk tsi Tsimshian tso ts Tsonga tsn tn Tswana tum Tumbuka tur tr Turkish ota Turkish, Ottoman (1500 - 1928) tuk tk Turkmen tyv Tuvinian twi tw Twi uga Ugaritic uig ug Uighur ukr uk Ukrainian umb Umbundu und Undetermined urd ur Urdu uzb uz Uzbek vai Vai ven Venda vie vi Vietnamese vol vo Volapük vot Votic wak Wakashan languages wal Walamo war Waray was Washo cym/wel cy Welsh wol wo Wolof xho xh Xhosa sah Yakut yao Yao yap Yap yid yi Yiddish yor yo Yoruba zap Zapotec zen Zenaga zha za Zhuang zul zu Zulu zun Zuni
AA "Afar" AB "Abkhazian" AF "Afrikaans" AM "Amharic" AR "Arabic" AS "Assamese" AY "Aymara" AZ "Azerbaijani" BA "Bashkir" BE "Byelorussian" BG "Bulgarian" BH "Bihari" BI "Bislama" BN "Bengali" "Bangla" BO "Tibetan" BR "Breton" CA "Catalan" CO "Corsican" CS "Czech" CY "Welsh" DA "Danish" DE "German" DZ "Bhutani" EL "Greek" EN "English" "American" EO "Esperanto" ES "Spanish" ET "Estonian" EU "Basque" FA "Persian" FI "Finnish" FJ "Fiji" FO "Faeroese" FR "French" FY "Frisian" GA "Irish" GD "Gaelic" "Scots Gaelic" GL "Galician" GN "Guarani" GU "Gujarati" HA "Hausa" HI "Hindi" HR "Croatian" HU "Hungarian" HY "Armenian" IA "Interlingua" IE "Interlingue" IK "Inupiak" IN "Indonesian" IS "Icelandic" IT "Italian" IW "Hebrew" JA "Japanese" JI "Yiddish" JW "Javanese" KA "Georgian" KK "Kazakh" KL "Greenlandic" KM "Cambodian" KN "Kannada" KO "Korean" KS "Kashmiri" KU "Kurdish" KY "Kirghiz" LA "Latin" LN "Lingala" LO "Laothian" LT "Lithuanian" LV "Latvian" "Lettish" MG "Malagasy" MI "Maori" MK "Macedonian" ML "Malayalam" MN "Mongolian" MO "Moldavian" MR "Marathi" MS "Malay" MT "Maltese" MY "Burmese" NA "Nauru" NE "Nepali" NL "Dutch" NO "Norwegian" OC "Occitan" OM "Oromo" "Afan" OR "Oriya" PA "Punjabi" PL "Polish" PS "Pashto" "Pushto" PT "Portuguese" QU "Quechua" RM "Rhaeto-Romance" RN "Kirundi" RO "Romanian" RU "Russian" RW "Kinyarwanda" SA "Sanskrit" SD "Sindhi" SG "Sangro" SH "Serbo-Croatian" SI "Singhalese" SK "Slovak" SL "Slovenian" SM "Samoan" SN "Shona" SO "Somali" SQ "Albanian" SR "Serbian" SS "Siswati" ST "Sesotho" SU "Sudanese" SV "Swedish" SW "Swahili" TA "Tamil" TE "Tegulu" TG "Tajik" TH "Thai" TI "Tigrinya" TK "Turkmen" TL "Tagalog" TN "Setswana" TO "Tonga" TR "Turkish" TS "Tsonga" TT "Tatar" TW "Twi" UK "Ukrainian" UR "Urdu" UZ "Uzbek" VI "Vietnamese" VO "Volapuk" WO "Wolof" XH "Xhosa" YO "Yoruba" ZH "Chinese" ZU "Zulu"
Document Modified August 9, 1999