The SOS Card Project

Language Codes

This page lists the short codes for language names used on the SOS Card.

Code English Native
AA Afar Qafaraf; ’Afar Af; Afaraf; Qafar af
AB Abkhazian Аҧсуа бызшәа; Аҧсшәа
AF Afrikaans Afrikaans
AK Akan Akan
AM Amharic አማርኛ
AN Aragonese aragonés
AR Arabic العَرَبِيَّة
AS Assamese অসমীয়া
AV Avaric Магӏарул мацӏ; Авар мацӏ
AY Aymara Aymar aru
AZ Azerbaijani Azərbaycan dili; آذربایجان دیلی; Азәрбајҹан дили
BA Bashkir Башҡорт теле; Başqort tele
BE Belarusian Беларуская мова
BG Bulgarian български език
BH Bihari languages
BI Bislama
BM Bambara ߓߊߡߊߣߊߣߞߊߣ
BN Bengali বাংলা
BO Tibetan བོད་སྐད་; ལྷ་སའི་སྐད་
BR Breton Brezhoneg
BS Bosnian bosanski; босански
CA Catalan; Valencian català
CE Chechen Нохчийн мотт; نَاخچیین موٓتت; ნახჩიე მუოთთ
CH Chamorro Finuʼ Chamoru
CO Corsican Corsu; Lingua corsa
CR Cree
CS Czech čeština; český jazyk
CV Chuvash Чӑвашла
CY Welsh Cymraeg; y Gymraeg
DA Danish dansk
DE German Deutsch
DV Dhivehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian ދިވެހި; ދިވެހިބަސް
DZ Dzongkha རྫོང་ཁ་
EE Ewe Èʋegbe
EL Greek Νέα Ελληνικά
EN English English
EO Esperanto Esperanto
ES Spanish; Castilian español; castellano
ET Estonian eesti keel
EU Basque euskara
FA Persian / Farsi فارسی
FF Fulah Fulfulde; Pulaar; Pular
FI Finnish suomen kieli
FJ Fijian Na Vosa Vakaviti
FO Faroese føroyskt
FR French français
FY Western Frisian Frysk
GA Irish Gaeilge
GD Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig
GL Galician galego
GN Guarani Avañeʼẽ
GU Gujarati ગુજરાતી
GV Manx Gaelg; Gailck
HA Hausa Harshen Hausa; هَرْشَن
HE Hebrew עברית
HI Hindi हिन्दी
HO Hiri Motu
HR Croatian hrvatski
HT Haitian; Haitian Creole kreyòl ayisyen
HU Hungarian magyar nyelv
HY Armenian Հայերէն; Հայերեն
HZ Herero Otjiherero
IA Interlingua
IG Igbo Asụsụ Igbo
II Sichuan Yi; Nuosu ꆈꌠꉙ
IK Inupiaq Iñupiaq
IN Indonesian bahasa Indonesia
IO Ido
IS Icelandic íslenska
IT Italian italiano; lingua italiana
IU Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
JA Japanese 日本語
JV Javanese ꦧꦱꦗꦮ
KA Georgian ქართული
KG Kongo
KI Kikuyu; Gikuyu Gĩkũyũ
KJ Kuanyama; Kwanyama
KK Kazakh қазақ тілі / qazaq tili
KL Kalaallisut; Greenlandic
KM Central Khmer ភាសាខ្មែរ
KN Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ
KO Korean 한국어
KR Kanuri
KS Kashmiri कॉशुर / كأشُر
KU Kurdish Kurdî / کوردی
KV Komi Коми кыв
KW Cornish Kernowek
KY Kirghiz; Kyrgyz кыргызча; кыргыз тили
LB Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch Lëtzebuergesch
LG Ganda Luganda
LI Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish Lèmburgs
LN Lingala
LO Lao ພາສາລາວ
LT Lithuanian lietuvių kalba
LU Luba-Katanga Kiluba
LV Latvian Latviešu valoda
MG Malagasy
MH Marshallese Kajin M̧ajeļ
MI Maori Te Reo Māori
MK Macedonian македонски јазик
ML Malayalam മലയാളം
MN Mongolian монгол хэл; ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ
MR Marathi मराठी
MS Malay Bahasa Melayu
MT Maltese Malti
MY Burmese / Myanmar မြန်မာစာ; မြန်မာစကား
NA Nauru dorerin Naoero
NB Norwegian Bokmål bokmål
ND Northern Ndebele siNdebele saseNyakatho
NE Nepali नेपाली भाषा
NG Ndonga ndonga
NL Dutch; Flemish Nederlands; Vlaams
NN Norwegian Nynorsk nynorsk
NO Norwegian norsk
NR Southern Ndebele isiNdebele seSewula
NV Navajo; Navaho Diné bizaad; Naabeehó bizaad
NY Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja Chichewa; Chinyanja
OC Occitan occitan; lenga dʼòc; provençal
OJ Ojibwa Ojibwe
OM Oromo Afaan Oromoo
OR Oriya; Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ
OS Ossetian; Ossetic Ирон æвзаг
PA Panjabi; Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ / پنجابی
PL Polish Język polski
PS Pushto; Pashto پښتو
PT Portuguese português
QU Quechua Runa simi; kichwa simi; Nuna shimi
RM Romansh Rumantsch; Rumàntsch; Romauntsch; Romontsch
RN Rundi; Kirundi Ikirundi
RO Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan limba română
RU Russian русский язык
RW Kinyarwanda
SC Sardinian sardu; limba sarda; lingua sarda
SD Sindhi سنڌي / सिन्धी / ਸਿੰਧੀ
SE Northern Sami davvisámegiella
SG Sango yângâ tî sängö
SI Sinhala; Sinhalese සිංහල
SK Slovak slovenčina; slovenský jazyk
SL Slovenian slovenski jezik; slovenščina
SM Samoan Gagana faʻa Sāmoa
SN Shona chiShona
SO Somali af Soomaali
SQ Albanian Shqip
SR Serbian српски / srpski
SS Swati; Swazi siSwati
ST Southern Sotho Sesotho [southern]
SU Sundanese ᮘᮞ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ / Basa Sunda
SV Swedish svenska
SW Swahili Kiswahili
TA Tamil தமிழ்
TE Telugu తెలుగు
TG Tajik тоҷикӣ / tojikī
TH Thai ภาษาไทย
TI Tigrinya ትግርኛ
TK Turkmen Türkmençe / Түркменче / تورکمن تیلی ,تورکمنچه; türkmen dili / түркмен дили
TL Tagalog Wikang Tagalog
TN Tswana Setswana
TO Tonga lea faka-Tonga
TR Turkish Türkçe
TS Tsonga Xitsonga
TT Tatar татар теле / tatar tele / تاتار
TW Twi
TY Tahitian Reo Tahiti; Reo Māʼohi
UG Uighur; Uyghur ئۇيغۇرچە ; ئۇيغۇر تىلى
UK Ukrainian українська мова
UR Urdu اُردُو
UZ Uzbek Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча / ئوزبېچه; oʻzbek tili / ўзбек тили / ئوبېک تیلی
VE Venda Tshivenḓa
VI Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
WA Walloon Walon
WO Wolof
XH Xhosa isiXhosa
YE Cantonese 广东话 / 粵語 / 粤语
YI Yiddish ייִדיש, יידיש; אידיש
YO Yoruba èdè Yorùbá
ZA Zhuang; Chuang Vahcuengh / 話僮
ZH Chinese 中文; 汉语; 漢語
ZU Zulu isiZulu