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Python dict with ISO-639-2 language codes
# -o- coding: utf-8 -o-
# ISO639 python dict
# oficial list in http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
ISO639_2 = {
'ab': 'Abkhaz',
'aa': 'Afar',
'af': 'Afrikaans',
'ak': 'Akan',
'sq': 'Albanian',
'am': 'Amharic',
'ar': 'Arabic',
'an': 'Aragonese',
'hy': 'Armenian',
'as': 'Assamese',
'av': 'Avaric',
'ae': 'Avestan',
'ay': 'Aymara',
'az': 'Azerbaijani',
'bm': 'Bambara',
'ba': 'Bashkir',
'eu': 'Basque',
'be': 'Belarusian',
'bn': 'Bengali',
'bh': 'Bihari',
'bi': 'Bislama',
'bs': 'Bosnian',
'br': 'Breton',
'bg': 'Bulgarian',
'my': 'Burmese',
'ca': 'Catalan; Valencian',
'ch': 'Chamorro',
'ce': 'Chechen',
'ny': 'Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja',
'zh': 'Chinese',
'cv': 'Chuvash',
'kw': 'Cornish',
'co': 'Corsican',
'cr': 'Cree',
'hr': 'Croatian',
'cs': 'Czech',
'da': 'Danish',
'dv': 'Divehi; Maldivian;',
'nl': 'Dutch',
'dz': 'Dzongkha',
'en': 'English',
'eo': 'Esperanto',
'et': 'Estonian',
'ee': 'Ewe',
'fo': 'Faroese',
'fj': 'Fijian',
'fi': 'Finnish',
'fr': 'French',
'ff': 'Fula',
'gl': 'Galician',
'ka': 'Georgian',
'de': 'German',
'el': 'Greek, Modern',
'gn': 'Guaraní',
'gu': 'Gujarati',
'ht': 'Haitian',
'ha': 'Hausa',
'he': 'Hebrew (modern)',
'hz': 'Herero',
'hi': 'Hindi',
'ho': 'Hiri Motu',
'hu': 'Hungarian',
'ia': 'Interlingua',
'id': 'Indonesian',
'ie': 'Interlingue',
'ga': 'Irish',
'ig': 'Igbo',
'ik': 'Inupiaq',
'io': 'Ido',
'is': 'Icelandic',
'it': 'Italian',
'iu': 'Inuktitut',
'ja': 'Japanese',
'jv': 'Javanese',
'kl': 'Kalaallisut',
'kn': 'Kannada',
'kr': 'Kanuri',
'ks': 'Kashmiri',
'kk': 'Kazakh',
'km': 'Khmer',
'ki': 'Kikuyu, Gikuyu',
'rw': 'Kinyarwanda',
'ky': 'Kirghiz, Kyrgyz',
'kv': 'Komi',
'kg': 'Kongo',
'ko': 'Korean',
'ku': 'Kurdish',
'kj': 'Kwanyama, Kuanyama',
'la': 'Latin',
'lb': 'Luxembourgish',
'lg': 'Luganda',
'li': 'Limburgish',
'ln': 'Lingala',
'lo': 'Lao',
'lt': 'Lithuanian',
'lu': 'Luba-Katanga',
'lv': 'Latvian',
'gv': 'Manx',
'mk': 'Macedonian',
'mg': 'Malagasy',
'ms': 'Malay',
'ml': 'Malayalam',
'mt': 'Maltese',
'mi': 'Māori',
'mr': 'Marathi (Marāṭhī)',
'mh': 'Marshallese',
'mn': 'Mongolian',
'na': 'Nauru',
'nv': 'Navajo, Navaho',
'nb': 'Norwegian Bokmål',
'nd': 'North Ndebele',
'ne': 'Nepali',
'ng': 'Ndonga',
'nn': 'Norwegian Nynorsk',
'no': 'Norwegian',
'ii': 'Nuosu',
'nr': 'South Ndebele',
'oc': 'Occitan',
'oj': 'Ojibwe, Ojibwa',
'cu': 'Old Church Slavonic',
'om': 'Oromo',
'or': 'Oriya',
'os': 'Ossetian, Ossetic',
'pa': 'Panjabi, Punjabi',
'pi': 'Pāli',
'fa': 'Persian',
'pl': 'Polish',
'ps': 'Pashto, Pushto',
'pt': 'Portuguese',
'qu': 'Quechua',
'rm': 'Romansh',
'rn': 'Kirundi',
'ro': 'Romanian, Moldavan',
'ru': 'Russian',
'sa': 'Sanskrit (Saṁskṛta)',
'sc': 'Sardinian',
'sd': 'Sindhi',
'se': 'Northern Sami',
'sm': 'Samoan',
'sg': 'Sango',
'sr': 'Serbian',
'gd': 'Scottish Gaelic',
'sn': 'Shona',
'si': 'Sinhala, Sinhalese',
'sk': 'Slovak',
'sl': 'Slovene',
'so': 'Somali',
'st': 'Southern Sotho',
'es': 'Spanish; Castilian',
'su': 'Sundanese',
'sw': 'Swahili',
'ss': 'Swati',
'sv': 'Swedish',
'ta': 'Tamil',
'te': 'Telugu',
'tg': 'Tajik',
'th': 'Thai',
'ti': 'Tigrinya',
'bo': 'Tibetan',
'tk': 'Turkmen',
'tl': 'Tagalog',
'tn': 'Tswana',
'to': 'Tonga',
'tr': 'Turkish',
'ts': 'Tsonga',
'tt': 'Tatar',
'tw': 'Twi',
'ty': 'Tahitian',
'ug': 'Uighur, Uyghur',
'uk': 'Ukrainian',
'ur': 'Urdu',
'uz': 'Uzbek',
've': 'Venda',
'vi': 'Vietnamese',
'vo': 'Volapük',
'wa': 'Walloon',
'cy': 'Welsh',
'wo': 'Wolof',
'fy': 'Western Frisian',
'xh': 'Xhosa',
'yi': 'Yiddish',
'yo': 'Yoruba',
'za': 'Zhuang, Chuang',
'zu': 'Zulu',
}
@janpipek
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I tried to generalize a bit: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso639/

@verhovsky
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@AtomicNess123
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How to generate this dictionary using the iso639 package in python?

@Vikasitha444
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I don't know what the version of this is. But this just helped me alot.

@Mtamred
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Mtamred commented Nov 1, 2022

This is a list, not a dictionary.

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