Table of ISO-693 Languages and Names

net-carver · 2006-07-04 05:47:35

Chinese, Arabic and Right-To-Left language readers, please help!

Over the past few days I started compiling a table of ISO-693-1 languages and their English and native names for a multi-lingual plugin that I am starting to develop.

Now I would like to ask for community feedback and help in checking the table and completing as much as possible. If you could, please check the entries for all the languages you know and post here(or email me via the forum) if there is any error (like not being marked as Right-to-left etc.)

Please also let me know if I got it correct and I will mark the entry as confirmed.

This is what I have so far…

ISO-693-1<br/>Code	English Name	Native Name in native script	RTL / Notes
aa	Afar	Afaraf
ab	Abkhazian	аҧсуа бызшәа
af	Afrikaans	Afrikaans	Confirmed by Els.
am	Amharic	አማርኛ
ar	Arabic	العربية	RTL
as	Assamese	অসমীয়া
ay	Aymara	Aymar aru
az	Azerbaijani	Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي	Some RTL
ba	Bashkir	башҡорт теле
be	Byelorussian	Беларуская мова
bg	Bulgarian	Български	Confirmed by mephi.
bh	Bihari	भोजपुरी
bi	Bislama	Bislama
bn	Bengali; Bangla	বাংলা
bo	Tibetan	Bod Skad	Needs special font
br	Breton	ar Brezhoneg
ca	Catalan	Català
co	Corsican	Corsu
cs	Czech	Čeština
cy	Welsh	Cymraeg
da	Danish	Dansk
de	German	Deutsch	Confirmed by Jakob.
dz	Bhutani	Dzongkha	Needs special Tibetan font
el	Greek	Ελληνικά	Confirmed by Marios.
en	English	English	Confirmed.
eo	Esperanto	Esperanto
es	Spanish	Español	Confirmed.
et	Estonian	Eesti Keel
eu	Basque	Euskera
fa	Persian	Fārsī
fi	Finnish	Suomi
fj	Fiji	vaka-Viti
fo	Faroese	Føroyska
fr	French	Français	Confirmed by Jakob.
fy	Frisian	Frysk	Submitted by Els.
ga	Irish	Gaeilge
gd	Scots Gaelic	Gàidhlig
gl	Galician	Galego
gn	Guarani	Avañe’ẽ
gu	Gujarati	ગુજરાતી
ha	Hausa	Hausa harshe / حَوْسَ حَرْش۪	Some RTL
he	Hebrew	עברית / עִבְרִית	RTL
hi	Hindi	हिन्दी	Confirmed by Inspired.
hr	Croatian	Hrvatski
hu	Hungarian	Magyar
hy	Armenian	Հայերէն
ia	Interlingua	Interlingua
id	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia
ie	Interlingue	Interlingue
ik	Inupiak	Iñupiak
is	Icelandic	Íslenska
it	Italian	Italiano	Confirmed by Els.
iu	Inuktitut	ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
ja	Japanese	日本語
jw	Javanese	basa Jawa
ka	Georgian	ქართული
kk	Kazakh	Қазақ / قازاق
kl	Greenlandic	Kalaallisut
km	Cambodian	ភាសាខ្មែរ
kn	Kannada	ಕನ್ನಡ
ko	Korean	한국어
ks	Kashmiri	काऽशुर
ku	Kurdish	Kurdí
ky	Kirghiz	Кыргызча
la	Latin	Latine
ln	Lingala	lokótá ya lingála
lo	Laothian	ລາວ
lt	Lithuanian	Lietuvių Kalba
lv	Latvian, Lettish	Latviešu
mg	Malagasy	Malagasy fiteny
mi	Maori	te Reo Māori
mk	Macedonian	Македонски
ml	Malayalam	മലയാളം
mn	Mongolian	Монгол
mo	Moldavian	лимба молдовеняскэ
mr	Marathi	मराठी
ms	Malay	Bahasa Melayu	Confirmed.
mt	Maltese	Malti
my	Burmese	ဗမာစကား
na	Nauru	Ekakairũ Naoero
ne	Nepali	नेपाली
nl	Dutch	Nederlands	Confirmed by Els.
no	Norwegian	Norsk
oc	Occitan	lenga occitana; occitan
om	(Afan) Oromo	Afaan Oromo
or	Oriya	ଓଡ଼ିଆ
pa	Punjabi	ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
pl	Polish	Polski
ps	Pashto, Pushto	پښتو	RTL
pt	Portuguese	Português	Confirmed by Rui.
qu	Quechua	Runa Simi; Kichwa
rm	Rhaeto-Romance	Rumantsch
rn	Kirundi	Kirundi
ro	Romanian	Română
ru	Russian	Русский	Confirmed by Inspired.
rw	Kinyarwanda	Kinyarwandi
sa	Sanskrit	संस्कृतम्
sd	Sindhi	سنڌي	RTL
sg	Sangho	yângâ tî sängö
sh	Serbo-Croatian	Српскохрватски
si	Sinhalese	(siṁhala bʰāṣāva)
sk	Slovak	Slovenčina
sl	Slovenian	Slovenščina
sm	Samoan	gagana fa’a Samoa
sn	Shona	chiShona
so	Somali	af Soomaali
sq	Albanian	Shqip
sr	Serbian	Srpski
ss	Siswati	siSwati
st	Sesotho	seSotho
su	Sundanese	basa Sunda
sv	Swedish	Svenska
sw	Swahili	Kiswahili	Confirmed by Els.
ta	Tamil	தமிழ்
te	Telugu	తెలుగు
tg	Tajik	забони тоҷикӣ (zaboni toǧikī) / زبان تاجکی (zabôn-i tôjikī)	Some RTL
th	Thai	ภาษาไทย
ti	Tigrinya	ትግርኛ (Təgərəña)
tk	Turkmen	Türkmençe
tl	Tagalog	Tagalog
tn	Setswana	Setswana
to	Tonga	Faka-Tonga
tr	Turkish	Türkçe
ts	Tsonga	xiTsonga
tt	Tatar	татарча / تاتارچا (tatarça)	RTL
tw	Twi	Twi
ug	Uighur	ئۇيغۇر تىلى / uyghur tili / уйғур тили; ئۇيغۇرچە / uyghurche / уйғурчә	Some RTL
uk	Ukrainian	Українська	Confirmed by Inspired.
ur	Urdu	(urdū) اردو	RTL
uz	Uzbek	Ўзбек (o’zbek)
vi	Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt
vo	Volapuk	vad’d‘a tšeeli
wo	Wolof	Wollof
xh	Xhosa	isiXhosa
yi	Yiddish	ײִדיש	RTL
yo	Yoruba	Yorùbá
za	Zhuang	Sawcuengh
zh	Chinese	中文	Is this a generic name for all Chinese dialects?
zu	Zulu	isiZulu

Sources…

Thank you in advance!

Last edited by net-carver (2007-02-24 23:52:43)

jakob · 2006-07-04 07:23:09

Deutsch & Francais are okay

Destry · 2006-07-04 07:28:38

Steve, there’s also this reference in TextBook: MediaWiki’s language options. I’m sure it’s pulled from the ISO standards. In fact, you might check the ISO site itself, I’m sure they have a reference of all the latest.

net-carver · 2006-07-04 07:39:57

Destry,

thank you for the pointer. That is similar to what I am trying to produce here but not quite the same, I will try to skim as much from it as I can though. It seems to be a mix of ISO-693 part 1 and the newer versions of the standard (note the three letter codes) and some include sub-codes (example: Chinese). Ideally I want to collect language names in their own script, not in a romanised form, and most of the native script names are missing from the ~~Textbook~~ mediawiki page.

BTW, I intend making this available (once it is more mature) in the Textbook.

Last edited by net-carver (2006-07-04 12:01:21)

rui · 2006-07-04 07:57:13

The Portuguese entry is ok!

All the Best,
rui

els · 2006-07-04 14:30:16

Nederlands O.K.
I thought Frisian was Frysk. Any real Frisians here? ;) (edit: well I’m pretty sure about that)
Kiswahili O.K. :)
Afrikaans & Italiano O.K.

Last edited by els (2006-07-04 14:55:33)

net-carver · 2006-07-04 15:03:42

Els wrote:

I thought Frisian was Frysk. Any real Frisians here? ;) (edit: well I’m pretty sure about that)

Thanks for all those Els.

Actually, I didn’t know how to map all the Frisian alternatives into one name. It seems there are multiple variations even within the Northern, Saterland and Western flavours of Frisian.

Northern: Frasche spräke; Frasch
Saterland: Fräiske Sproake; Fräisk; Seelterske Sproake; Seeltersk
Western: Fryske taal; Frysk

(Above taken from Geonames, I think I picked up the original form I used in the table from the Omniglot site.)

I’ll switch to your suggestion for now, pending any other input.

els · 2006-07-04 15:18:54

In case no Frisian stands up, I think it’s indeed Frysk you need.

marios · 2006-07-06 01:08:53

Hey, Steve, that looks terrific, the greek one is correct, I’ll see if I can dig the official UNICODE Sites, to complement some of the missing info.

regards, marios

net-carver · 2006-07-06 04:07:27

Thank you to all who have responded so far.

Thanks to Els for pointing out the List of Wikipedias, that has proved very useful in providing the missing entries. I am only having trouble sourcing a unicode Tibetan font now to complete the list (for ‘dz’ and ‘bo’).

marios · 2006-07-06 09:54:02

The Tibetan is a little tricky, seems there is only one open-type font that is Uni-code capable http://www.thdl.org/xml/show.php?xml=/tools/tibfonts.xml&l=uva10928423419921

Language code is <strong>bo</strong> after ISO 639.2.
Language name ??

I doubt also, wether such a thing could ever be supported, since there are over a dozen differnent ways how the direction changes.
(stacked top, middle, bottom, rtl)

regards

net-carver · 2006-07-06 11:02:00

Marios

I tried downloading the only Tibetan supporting opentype font I could find (the web version) but I can’t seem to view the example Tibetan text on the web. Perhaps I messed something up.

Not to worry, I am pretty happy to run with what I have pulled together so far.

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