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Language Codes
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   The ISO 639 standard defines two character codes for many languages.
All abbreviations for languages used in the Translation Project should
come from this standard.

`aa'
     Afar.

`ab'
     Abkhazian.

`ae'
     Avestan.

`af'
     Afrikaans.

`am'
     Amharic.

`ar'
     Arabic.

`as'
     Assamese.

`ay'
     Aymara.

`az'
     Azerbaijani.

`ba'
     Bashkir.

`be'
     Byelorussian; Belarusian.

`bg'
     Bulgarian.

`bh'
     Bihari.

`bi'
     Bislama.

`bn'
     Bengali; Bangla.

`bo'
     Tibetan.

`br'
     Breton.

`bs'
     Bosnian.

`ca'
     Catalan.

`ce'
     Chechen.

`ch'
     Chamorro.

`co'
     Corsican.

`cs'
     Czech.

`cu'
     Church Slavic.

`cv'
     Chuvash.

`cy'
     Welsh.

`da'
     Danish.

`de'
     German.

`dz'
     Dzongkha; Bhutani.

`el'
     Greek.

`en'
     English.

`eo'
     Esperanto.

`es'
     Spanish.

`et'
     Estonian.

`eu'
     Basque.

`fa'
     Persian.

`fi'
     Finnish.

`fj'
     Fijian; Fiji.

`fo'
     Faroese.

`fr'
     French.

`fy'
     Frisian.

`ga'
     Irish.

`gd'
     Scots; Gaelic.

`gl'
     Gallegan; Galician.

`gn'
     Guarani.

`gu'
     Gujarati.

`gv'
     Manx.

`ha'
     Hausa (?).

`he'
     Hebrew (formerly iw).

`hi'
     Hindi.

`ho'
     Hiri Motu.

`hr'
     Croatian.

`hu'
     Hungarian.

`hy'
     Armenian.

`hz'
     Herero.

`ia'
     Interlingua.

`id'
     Indonesian (formerly in).

`ie'
     Interlingue.

`ik'
     Inupiak.

`is'
     Icelandic.

`it'
     Italian.

`iu'
     Inuktitut.

`ja'
     Japanese.

`jw'
     Javanese.

`ka'
     Georgian.

`ki'
     Kikuyu.

`kj'
     Kuanyama.

`kk'
     Kazakh.

`kl'
     Kalaallisut; Greenlandic.

`km'
     Khmer; Cambodian.

`kn'
     Kannada.

`ko'
     Korean.

`ks'
     Kashmiri.

`ku'
     Kurdish.

`kv'
     Komi.

`kw'
     Cornish.

`ky'
     Kirghiz.

`la'
     Latin.

`lb'
     Letzeburgesch.

`ln'
     Lingala.

`lo'
     Lao; Laotian.

`lt'
     Lithuanian.

`lv'
     Latvian; Lettish.

`mg'
     Malagasy.

`mh'
     Marshall.

`mi'
     Maori.

`mk'
     Macedonian.

`ml'
     Malayalam.

`mn'
     Mongolian.

`mo'
     Moldavian.

`mr'
     Marathi.

`ms'
     Malay.

`mt'
     Maltese.

`my'
     Burmese.

`na'
     Nauru.

`nb'
     Norwegian Bokmaal.

`nd'
     Ndebele, North.

`ne'
     Nepali.

`ng'
     Ndonga.

`nl'
     Dutch.

`nn'
     Norwegian Nynorsk.

`no'
     Norwegian.

`nr'
     Ndebele, South.

`nv'
     Navajo.

`ny'
     Chichewa; Nyanja.

`oc'
     Occitan; Provenc,al.

`om'
     (Afan) Oromo.

`or'
     Oriya.

`os'
     Ossetian; Ossetic.

`pa'
     Panjabi; Punjabi.

`pi'
     Pali.

`pl'
     Polish.

`ps'
     Pashto, Pushto.

`pt'
     Portuguese.

`qu'
     Quechua.

`rm'
     Rhaeto-Romance.

`rn'
     Rundi; Kirundi.

`ro'
     Romanian.

`ru'
     Russian.

`rw'
     Kinyarwanda.

`sa'
     Sanskrit.

`sc'
     Sardinian.

`sd'
     Sindhi.

`se'
     Northern Sami.

`sg'
     Sango; Sangro.

`si'
     Sinhalese.

`sk'
     Slovak.

`sl'
     Slovenian.

`sm'
     Samoan.

`sn'
     Shona.

`so'
     Somali.

`sq'
     Albanian.

`sr'
     Serbian.

`ss'
     Swati; Siswati.

`st'
     Sesotho; Sotho, Southern.

`su'
     Sundanese.

`sv'
     Swedish.

`sw'
     Swahili.

`ta'
     Tamil.

`te'
     Telugu.

`tg'
     Tajik.

`th'
     Thai.

`ti'
     Tigrinya.

`tk'
     Turkmen.

`tl'
     Tagalog.

`tn'
     Tswana; Setswana.

`to'
     Tonga (?).

`tr'
     Turkish.

`ts'
     Tsonga.

`tt'
     Tatar.

`tw'
     Twi.

`ty'
     Tahitian.

`ug'
     Uighur.

`uk'
     Ukrainian.

`ur'
     Urdu.

`uz'
     Uzbek.

`vi'
     Vietnamese.

`vo'
     Volapu"k; Volapuk.

`wo'
     Wolof.

`xh'
     Xhosa.

`yi'
     Yiddish (formerly ji).

`yo'
     Yoruba.

`za'
     Zhuang.

`zh'
     Chinese.

`zu'
     Zulu.