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List of native-language names

We are trying to compile an accurate list of world languages, as they are written in the original language. This will make it possible for us to create more accessible web and wiki pages, where the user can easily recognize his or her native language in a language bar or drop-down menu.

This is part of a move towards content-sensitive documents.

This list does not contain all world languages. It is a combination of languages supported by OpenOffice.org and languages actively published in Wikipedia. it gives us a reasonable representation of our international users.

Please correct and/or add to this table. Your experience and knowledge is welcome. :)

The list is based on the ISO_639 file from the Debian iso-codes package. Thankyou to the iso-codes maintainers, and to Wikipedia for supporting so many native languages.

Please discuss this list on the dev@native-lang mailing list.

World Languages


ISO code Native language English
af Afrikaans Afrikaans
am Āmariññā Amharic
an Aragonés Aragonese
ang Eald Englisc Old English
ar عربي Arabic
as অসমীয়া Assamese
ast Asturianu Asturian
av Авар Avaric
az_AZ Azərbaycan Azerbaijani
az_ar آذربایجان Azerbaijani
ba Башҡорт Bashkir
bar Boarisch
sgs Žemaitėška
be Тарашкевiца Belarussian
bg Български Bulgarian
bm Bamanankan Bambara
bn বাংলা Bengali
bo བོད་ཡིག Tibetan
bpy বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী Bishnupriya Manipuri
br Brezhoneg Breton
bs Bosanski Bosnian
ca Català Catalan
cbk_zam Zamboangueño
cdo Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄
ce Нохчийн Chechen
ceb Sinugboanon Cebuano
chr ᏣᎳᎩ Cherokee
co Corsu Corsican
cr_cans ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ a Cree language
cr_ln Nēhiyawēwin a Cree language
cs Česky Czech
csb Kaszëbsczi Kashubian
cu Словѣньскъ Cushitic
cy Cymraeg Welsh
da Dansk Danish
de Deutsch German
diq Zazaki
dv ދިވެހި Divehi
dz Dzongkha
ee Eʋegbe Ewe
el Ελληνικά Greek
eml Emigliàn-Rumagnòl
en English English
eu Esperanto Esperanto
es Español Spanish
et Eesti Estonian
eu Euskara Basque
fi Suomi Finnish
fij Fijian
vro Võro
fo Føroyskt Faroese
fr Français French
frp Arpitan
fur Furlan Friulian
fy Frysk Western Frisian
ga Gaeilge Irish Gaelic
gd Ghàidhlig Scottish Gaelic
gl Galego Galician
glk_ar گیلکی
glk_ln Giləki
gsw Alemannisch Swiss German
gu ગુજરાતી Gujarati
gv Gaelg Manx
hak_hani 客家話
hak_ln Hak-kâ-fa
he עברית Hebrew
hi हिन्दी Hindi
hmn Hmong
hr Hrvatski Croatian
hsb Hornjoserbsce Upper Sorbian
ht Kreyòl Ayisyen Haitian
hu Magyar Hungarian
hy Հայերեն Armenian
ia Interlingua Interlingua
id Bahasa Indonesia Indonesian
ie Interlingue Interlingue
ig Igbo Igbo
ilo Ilokano Iloko
io Ido Ido
is Íslenska Icelandic
it Italiano Italian
iu ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Inuktitut
ja 日本語 Japanese
jbo lojban Lojban
jv Basa Jawa Javan
ka ქართული Kartuli
kab Taqbaylit Kabyle
kg Kongo Kongo
kin Kinyarwanda
kk Қазақша Kazakh
km ភាសាខ្មែរ Khmer
kn ಕನ್ನಡ Kannada
ko 한국어 Korean
ks_ar كشميري Kashmiri
ks_deva कश्मीरी Kashmiri
ksh Ripoarisch
ku كوردی Kurdish
kw Kernewek Cornish
ky Кыргызча Kirghiz
la Latina Latin
lad_hebr לאדינו Ladino
lad_ln Ladino Ladino
lb Lëtzebuergesch Luxembourgish
li Limburgs Limburgan
lij Ligure
lmo Lumbaart
ln Lingála Lingala
lo ພາສາລາວ Lao
lt Lietuviškai OR Lietuvių ? Lithuanian
lv Latviešu Latvian
map_bms Basa Banyumasan
mg Malagasy Malagasy
mi Māori Maori
mk Македонски Macedonian
ml മലയാളം Malayam
mm Монгол Mongolian
mo Молдовеняскэ Moldavian
mr मराठी Marathi
ms Bahasa Melayu Malay
mt Malti Maltese
my Burmese
na Ekakairũ Naoero Nauru
nah Nāhuatlahtōlli Nahuatl
nan Bân-lâm-gú
nap Nnapulitano Neapolitan
nds Plattdüütsch Low German
nds_nl Nedersaksisch Low Saxon
ne नेपाली Nepali
new नेपाल भाषा Newari
nl Nederlands Dutch
nn Norsk (nynorsk) Norwegian (Nynorsk)
no Norsk (bokmål) Norwegian (Bokmal)
nov Novial
nv Diné Bizaad Navaho
oc Occitan Occitan
om Afaan Oromoo Afan Oromo
or Oriya
os Ирон æвзаг Ossetian
pa ਪੰਜਾਬੀ / پنجابی Panjabi
pag Pangasinán Pangasinan
pam Kapampangan Pampanga
pap Papiamentu Papiamento
pdc Deitsch
pe فارسی Persian
pi पाऴि Pali
pl Polski Polish
pms Piemontèis Piedmontese
ps پښتو Pushto
pt Português Portuguese
pt_br Português do Brasil Brazilian Portuguese
qu Runa Simi Quechua
qu_EC Shukllachiska Kichwa Quichua (Ecuador)
rm Rumantsch Romansh
rmy_deva रोमानी
rmy_ln Romani
ro Română Romanian
roa_nrm Nouormand Norman
rup Armãneashce Aromanian
ru Русский Russian
ru_sib Сибирской говор
sa संस्कृतम् Sanskrit
sc Sardu Sardinian
sco Scots Scottish
sd سنڌي Sindhi
se Sámegiella Northern Sami
scn Sicilianu Sicilian
sg Sängö Sango
sh srpski (latinicom) Serbian (Latin) (usage note)
si සිංහල Sinhala
sk Slovenčina Slovak
sl Slovenščina Slovenian
sm Gagana Sāmoa Samoan
so Af Soomaali Somalian
sq Shqip Albianian
sr српски (ћирилицом) Serbian (Cyrillic)
su Basa Sunda Sundanese
sw Kiswahili Swahili
ta தமிழ் Tamil
te Telegu Telugu
tet Tetun Tetum
tg Тоҷикӣ Tajok
th ไทย Thai
ti ትግርኛ Tigrinya
tk_ar تركمن Turkmen
tk_cr Туркмен Turkmen
tk_ln Türkmen Turkmen
tl Tagalog Tagalog
to Lea faka-Tonga Tonga
tpi Tok Pisin Tok Pisin
tr Türkçe Turkish
tt Tatarça Tatar
ty Reo Tahiti Tahitian
udm Удмурт Udmurt
ug ئۇيغۇرچه Uyghur
uk Українська Ukrainian
ur اردو Urdu
uz O‘zbek Uzbek
vec Vèneto Venetian
vi Việt Vietnamese
vls West-Vlaoms
vo Volapük Volapük
wa Walon Walloon
war Winaray Waray
wo Wollof Wollof
wuu 吴语
yi ייִדי Yiddish
yo Yorùbá Yoruba
zea Zeêuws Zealander
zh 中文 Chinese
zh_CN 简体中文 Chinese simplified
zh_TW 正體中文 Chinese traditional



Note on sh usage inside OpenOffice.org

"sh" ISO language code is representing Serbo-Croatian language (Cyrillic: српскохрватски, Latin: srpskohrvatski). Serbo-Croatian language does not officially exist in Serbia since 1997 and it officially disappear in Croatia much earlier.

As for Serbian (ISO language code sr) there is a need to support both Cyrillic and Latin script both equally supported in UI/Help localization, locale and document language somewhen around 2001 when Serbian native lang project was started it was decided to use "sr" for Serbian Cyrillic and "sh" for Serbian Latin.

Once locale modifiers can be used in all aspects of OpenOffice.org internally along language codes we could migrate "sh" code to "sr@latin".

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