When compiling your metadata, you will need to include the ISO language code of the product. Below, you will find a complete list of three-letter codes, which you can use to indicate the language of your ebook(s).
ISO 639 is a standardised system used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a lowercase abbreviation.
ISO 639-2 Code | English name of language |
aar | Afar |
abk | Abkhazian |
ace | Achinese |
ach | Acoli |
ada | Adangme |
ady | Adyghe; Adygei |
afa | Afro-Asiatic languages |
afh | Afrihili |
afr | Afrikaans |
ain | Ainu |
aka | Akan |
akk | Akkadian |
sqi (T) | Albanian |
ale | Aleut |
alg | Algonquian languages |
alt | Southern Altai |
amh | Amharic |
ang | English, Old (ca.450-1100) |
anp | Angika |
apa | Apache languages |
ara | Arabic |
arc | Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) |
arg | Aragonese |
hye (T) | Armenian |
arn | Mapudungun; Mapuche |
arp | Arapaho |
art | Artificial languages |
arw | Arawak |
asm | Assamese |
ast | Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese |
ath | Athapascan languages |
aus | Australian languages |
ava | Avaric |
ave | Avestan |
awa | Awadhi |
aym | Aymara |
aze | Azerbaijani |
bad | Banda languages |
bai | Bamileke languages |
bak | Bashkir |
bal | Baluchi |
bam | Bambara |
ban | Balinese |
eus (T) | Basque |
bas | Basa |
bat | Baltic languages |
bej | Beja; Bedawiyet |
bel | Belarusian |
bem | Bemba |
ben | Bengali |
ber | Berber languages |
bho | Bhojpuri |
bih | Bihari languages |
bik | Bikol |
bin | Bini; Edo |
bis | Bislama |
bla | Siksika |
bnt | Bantu languages |
bod (T) | Tibetan |
bos | Bosnian |
bra | Braj |
bre | Breton |
btk | Batak languages |
bua | Buriat |
bug | Buginese |
bul | Bulgarian |
mya (T) | Burmese |
byn | Blin; Bilin |
cad | Caddo |
cai | Central American Indian languages |
car | Galibi Carib |
cat | Catalan; Valencian |
cau | Caucasian languages |
ceb | Cebuano |
cel | Celtic languages |
ces (T) | Czech |
cha | Chamorro |
chb | Chibcha |
che | Chechen |
chg | Chagatai |
chi (B) | |
zho (T) | Chinese |
chk | Chuukese |
chm | Mari |
chn | Chinook jargon |
cho | Choctaw |
chp | Chipewyan; Dene Suline |
chr | Cherokee |
chu | Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic |
chv | Chuvash |
chy | Cheyenne |
cmc | Chamic languages |
cop | Coptic |
cor | Cornish |
cos | Corsican |
cpe | Creoles and pidgins, English based |
cpf | Creoles and pidgins, French-based |
cpp | Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based |
cre | Cree |
crh | Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish |
crp | Creoles and pidgins |
csb | Kashubian |
cus | Cushitic languages |
wel (B) | |
cym (T) | Welsh |
cze (B) | |
ces (T) | Czech |
dak | Dakota |
dan | Danish |
dar | Dargwa |
day | Land Dayak languages |
del | Delaware |
den | Slave (Athapascan) |
ger (B) | |
deu (T) | German |
dgr | Dogrib |
din | Dinka |
div | Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian |
doi | Dogri |
dra | Dravidian languages |
dsb | Lower Sorbian |
dua | Duala |
dum | Dutch, Middle (ca.1050-1350) |
dut (B) | |
nld (T) | Dutch; Flemish |
dyu | Dyula |
dzo | Dzongkha |
efi | Efik |
egy | Egyptian (Ancient) |
eka | Ekajuk |
gre (B) | |
ell (T) | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
elx | Elamite |
eng | English |
enm | English, Middle (1100-1500) |
epo | Esperanto |
est | Estonian |
baq (B) | |
eus (T) | Basque |
ewe | Ewe |
ewo | Ewondo |
fan | Fang |
fao | Faroese |
per (B) | |
fas (T) | Persian |
fat | Fanti |
fij | Fijian |
fil | Filipino; Pilipino |
fin | Finnish |
fiu | Finno-Ugrian languages |
fon | Fon |
fre (B) | |
fra (T) | French |
fre (B) | |
fra (T) | French |
frm | French, Middle (ca.1400-1600) |
fro | French, Old (842-ca.1400) |
frr | Northern Frisian |
frs | Eastern Frisian |
fry | Western Frisian |
ful | Fulah |
fur | Friulian |
gaa | Ga |
gay | Gayo |
gba | Gbaya |
gem | Germanic languages |
geo (B) | |
kat (T) | Georgian |
ger (B) | |
deu (T) | German |
gez | Geez |
gil | Gilbertese |
gla | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic |
gle | Irish |
glg | Galician |
glv | Manx |
gmh | German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) |
goh | German, Old High (ca.750-1050) |
gon | Gondi |
gor | Gorontalo |
got | Gothic |
grb | Grebo |
grc | Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
gre (B) | |
ell (T) | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
grn | Guarani |
gsw | Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian |
guj | Gujarati |
gwi | Gwich'in |
hai | Haida |
hat | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
hau | Hausa |
haw | Hawaiian |
heb | Hebrew |
her | Herero |
hil | Hiligaynon |
him | Himachali languages; Western Pahari languages |
hin | Hindi |
hit | Hittite |
hmn | Hmong; Mong |
hmo | Hiri Motu |
hrv | Croatian |
hsb | Upper Sorbian |
hun | Hungarian |
hup | Hupa |
arm (B) | |
hye (T) | Armenian |
iba | Iban |
ibo | Igbo |
ice (B) | |
isl (T) | Icelandic |
ido | Ido |
iii | Sichuan Yi; Nuosu |
ijo | Ijo languages |
iku | Inuktitut |
ile | Interlingue; Occidental |
ilo | Iloko |
ina | Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) |
inc | Indic languages |
ind | Indonesian |
ine | Indo-European languages |
inh | Ingush |
ipk | Inupiaq |
ira | Iranian languages |
iro | Iroquoian languages |
ice (B) | |
isl (T) | Icelandic |
ita | Italian |
jav | Javanese |
jbo | Lojban |
jpn | Japanese |
jpr | Judeo-Persian |
jrb | Judeo-Arabic |
kaa | Kara-Kalpak |
kab | Kabyle |
kac | Kachin; Jingpho |
kal | Kalaallisut; Greenlandic |
kam | Kamba |
kan | Kannada |
kar | Karen languages |
kas | Kashmiri |
geo (B) | |
kat (T) | Georgian |
kau | Kanuri |
kaw | Kawi |
kaz | Kazakh |
kbd | Kabardian |
kha | Khasi |
khi | Khoisan languages |
khm | Central Khmer |
kho | Khotanese; Sakan |
kik | Kikuyu; Gikuyu |
kin | Kinyarwanda |
kir | Kirghiz; Kyrgyz |
kmb | Kimbundu |
kok | Konkani |
kom | Komi |
kon | Kongo |
kor | Korean |
kos | Kosraean |
kpe | Kpelle |
krc | Karachay-Balkar |
krl | Karelian |
kro | Kru languages |
kru | Kurukh |
kua | Kuanyama; Kwanyama |
kum | Kumyk |
kur | Kurdish |
kut | Kutenai |
lad | Ladino |
lah | Lahnda |
lam | Lamba |
lao | Lao |
lat | Latin |
lav | Latvian |
lez | Lezghian |
lim | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish |
lin | Lingala |
lit | Lithuanian |
lol | Mongo |
loz | Lozi |
ltz | Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch |
lua | Luba-Lulua |
lub | Luba-Katanga |
lug | Ganda |
lui | Luiseno |
lun | Lunda |
luo | Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) |
lus | Lushai |
mac (B) | |
mkd (T) | Macedonian |
mad | Madurese |
mag | Magahi |
mah | Marshallese |
mai | Maithili |
mak | Makasar |
mal | Malayalam |
man | Mandingo |
mao (B) | |
mri (T) | Maori |
map | Austronesian languages |
mar | Marathi |
mas | Masai |
may (B) | |
msa (T) | Malay |
mdf | Moksha |
mdr | Mandar |
men | Mende |
mga | Irish, Middle (900-1200) |
mic | Mi'kmaq; Micmac |
min | Minangkabau |
mis | Uncoded languages |
mac (B) | |
mkd (T) | Macedonian |
mkh | Mon-Khmer languages |
mlg | Malagasy |
mlt | Maltese |
mnc | Manchu |
mni | Manipuri |
mno | Manobo languages |
moh | Mohawk |
mon | Mongolian |
mos | Mossi |
mao (B) | |
mri (T) | Maori |
may (B) | |
msa (T) | Malay |
mul | Multiple languages |
mun | Munda languages |
mus | Creek |
mwl | Mirandese |
mwr | Marwari |
bur (B) | |
mya (T) | Burmese |
myn | Mayan languages |
myv | Erzya |
nah | Nahuatl languages |
nai | North American Indian languages |
nap | Neapolitan |
nau | Nauru |
nav | Navajo; Navaho |
nbl | Ndebele, South; South Ndebele |
nde | Ndebele, North; North Ndebele |
ndo | Ndonga |
nds | Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low |
nep | Nepali |
new | Nepal Bhasa; Newari |
nia | Nias |
nic | Niger-Kordofanian languages |
niu | Niuean |
dut (B) | |
nld (T) | Dutch; Flemish |
nno | Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian |
nob | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
nog | Nogai |
non | Norse, Old |
nor | Norwegian |
nqo | N'Ko |
nso | Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho |
nub | Nubian languages |
nwc | Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa |
nya | Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja |
nym | Nyamwezi |
nyn | Nyankole |
nyo | Nyoro |
nzi | Nzima |
oci | Occitan (post 1500) |
oji | Ojibwa |
ori | Oriya |
orm | Oromo |
osa | Osage |
oss | Ossetian; Ossetic |
ota | Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) |
oto | Otomian languages |
paa | Papuan languages |
pag | Pangasinan |
pal | Pahlavi |
pam | Pampanga; Kapampangan |
pan | Panjabi; Punjabi |
pap | Papiamento |
pau | Palauan |
peo | Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.) |
per (B) | |
fas (T) | Persian |
phi | Philippine languages |
phn | Phoenician |
pli | Pali |
pol | Polish |
pon | Pohnpeian |
por | Portuguese |
pra | Prakrit languages |
pro | Provençal, Old (to 1500);Occitan, Old (to 1500) |
pus | Pushto; Pashto |
qaa-qtz | Reserved for local use |
que | Quechua |
raj | Rajasthani |
rap | Rapanui |
rar | Rarotongan; Cook Islands Maori |
roa | Romance languages |
roh | Romansh |
rom | Romany |
rum (B) | |
ron (T) | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
rum (B) | |
ron (T) | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
run | Rundi |
rup | Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian |
rus | Russian |
sad | Sandawe |
sag | Sango |
sah | Yakut |
sai | South American Indian languages |
sal | Salishan languages |
sam | Samaritan Aramaic |
san | Sanskrit |
sas | Sasak |
sat | Santali |
scn | Sicilian |
sco | Scots |
sel | Selkup |
sem | Semitic languages |
sga | Irish, Old (to 900) |
sgn | Sign Languages |
shn | Shan |
sid | Sidamo |
sin | Sinhala; Sinhalese |
sio | Siouan languages |
sit | Sino-Tibetan languages |
sla | Slavic languages |
slo (B) | |
slk (T) | Slovak |
slo (B) | |
slk (T) | Slovak |
slv | Slovenian |
sma | Southern Sami |
sme | Northern Sami |
smi | Sami languages |
smj | Lule Sami |
smn | Inari Sami |
smo | Samoan |
sms | Skolt Sami |
sna | Shona |
snd | Sindhi |
snk | Soninke |
sog | Sogdian |
som | Somali |
son | Songhai languages |
sot | Sotho, Southern |
spa | Spanish; Castilian |
alb (B) | |
sqi (T) | Albanian |
srd | Sardinian |
srn | Sranan Tongo |
srp | Serbian |
srr | Serer |
ssa | Nilo-Saharan languages |
ssw | Swati |
suk | Sukuma |
sun | Sundanese |
sus | Susu |
sux | Sumerian |
swa | Swahili |
swe | Swedish |
syc | Classical Syriac |
syr | Syriac |
tah | Tahitian |
tai | Tai languages |
tam | Tamil |
tat | Tatar |
tel | Telugu |
tem | Timne |
ter | Tereno |
tet | Tetum |
tgk | Tajik |
tgl | Tagalog |
tha | Thai |
tib (B) | |
bod (T) | Tibetan |
tig | Tigre |
tir | Tigrinya |
tiv | Tiv |
tkl | Tokelau |
tlh | Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol |
tli | Tlingit |
tmh | Tamashek |
tog | Tonga (Nyasa) |
ton | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
tpi | Tok Pisin |
tsi | Tsimshian |
tsn | Tswana |
tso | Tsonga |
tuk | Turkmen |
tum | Tumbuka |
tup | Tupi languages |
tur | Turkish |
tut | Altaic languages |
tvl | Tuvalu |
twi | Twi |
tyv | Tuvinian |
udm | Udmurt |
uga | Ugaritic |
uig | Uighur; Uyghur |
ukr | Ukrainian |
umb | Umbundu |
und | Undetermined |
urd | Urdu |
uzb | Uzbek |
vai | Vai |
ven | Venda |
vie | Vietnamese |
vol | Volapük |
vot | Votic |
wak | Wakashan languages |
wal | Wolaitta; Wolaytta |
war | Waray |
was | Washo |
wel (B) | |
cym (T) | Welsh |
wen | Sorbian languages |
wln | Walloon |
wol | Wolof |
xal | Kalmyk; Oirat |
xho | Xhosa |
yao | Yao |
yap | Yapese |
yid | Yiddish |
yor | Yoruba |
ypk | Yupik languages |
zap | Zapotec |
zbl | Blissymbols; Blissymbolics; Bliss |
zen | Zenaga |
zgh | Standard Moroccan Tamazight |
zha | Zhuang; Chuang |
chi (B) | |
zho (T) | Chinese |
znd | Zande languages |
zul | Zulu |
zun | Zuni |
zxx | No linguistic content; Not applicable |
zza | Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki |
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