Many customers wonder what the letters mean in the translated documents we send. Essentially when sending a file back to a client we always add a language code. So if your document was called “Document-to-translate.doc” and we translated it into Greek – we would send it back as “Document-to-translate-EL.doc”.
Below is a useful guide to ISO Language Codes.
ISO 639: 2-letter codes
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”
