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description: >-
  This list includes most commonly recognised languages with their standard ISO
  639-1 codes and their associated regions.
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# World Language Codes

af - Afrikaans (South Africa, Namibia)\
am - Amharic (Ethiopia)\
ar - Arabic (Middle East, North Africa)\
az - Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)\
be - Belarusian (Belarus)\
bg - Bulgarian (Bulgaria)\
bn - Bengali (Bangladesh, India)\
bs - Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)\
ca - Catalan (Spain - Catalonia, Andorra)\
ceb - Cebuano (Philippines)\
co - Corsican (France - Corsica)\
cs - Czech (Czech Republic)\
cy - Welsh (Wales - UK)\
da - Danish (Denmark)\
de - German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)\
el - Greek (Greece, Cyprus)\
en - English (Worldwide)\
eo - Esperanto (Constructed language)\
es - Spanish (Spain, Latin America)\
et - Estonian (Estonia)\
eu - Basque (Spain - Basque Country)\
fa - Persian (Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan)\
fi - Finnish (Finland)\
fr - French (France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa)\
fy - Frisian (Netherlands - Friesland)\
ga - Irish (Ireland)\
gd - Scottish Gaelic (Scotland - UK)\
gl - Galician (Spain - Galicia)\
gu - Gujarati (India)\
ha - Hausa (Nigeria, Niger, West Africa)\
haw - Hawaiian (Hawaii - USA)\
he - Hebrew (Israel)\
hi - Hindi (India)\
hmn - Hmong (China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, USA)\
hr - Croatian (Croatia)\
ht - Haitian Creole (Haiti)\
hu - Hungarian (Hungary)\
hy - Armenian (Armenia)\
id - Indonesian (Indonesia)\
ig - Igbo (Nigeria)\
is - Icelandic (Iceland)\
it - Italian (Italy, Switzerland)\
ja - Japanese (Japan)\
jv - Javanese (Indonesia)\
ka - Georgian (Georgia)\
kk - Kazakh (Kazakhstan)\
km - Khmer (Cambodia)\
kn - Kannada (India)\
ko - Korean (South Korea, North Korea)\
ku - Kurdish (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria)\
ky - Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)\
la - Latin (Historical, Vatican City)\
lb - Luxembourgish (Luxembourg)\
lo - Lao (Laos)\
lt - Lithuanian (Lithuania)\
lv - Latvian (Latvia)\
mg - Malagasy (Madagascar)\
mi - Maori (New Zealand)\
mk - Macedonian (North Macedonia)\
ml - Malayalam (India)\
mn - Mongolian (Mongolia)\
mr - Marathi (India)\
ms - Malay (Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei)\
mt - Maltese (Malta)\
my - Burmese (Myanmar)\
ne - Nepali (Nepal, India)\
nl - Dutch (Netherlands, Belgium)\
no - Norwegian (Norway)\
ny - Chichewa (Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique)\
or - Odia/Oriya (India)\
pa - Punjabi (India, Pakistan)\
pl - Polish (Poland)\
ps - Pashto (Afghanistan, Pakistan)\
pt - Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil, Africa)\
ro - Romanian (Romania, Moldova)\
ru - Russian (Russia, Eastern Europe)\
rw - Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)\
sd - Sindhi (Pakistan, India)\
si - Sinhala (Sri Lanka)\
sk - Slovak (Slovakia)\
sl - Slovenian (Slovenia)\
sm - Samoan (Samoa)\
sn - Shona (Zimbabwe)\
so - Somali (Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti)\
sq - Albanian (Albania, Kosovo)\
sr - Serbian (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro)\
st - Sesotho (Lesotho, South Africa)\
su - Sundanese (Indonesia)\
sv - Swedish (Sweden, Finland)\
sw - Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, East Africa)\
ta - Tamil (India, Sri Lanka, Singapore)\
te - Telugu (India)\
tg - Tajik (Tajikistan)\
th - Thai (Thailand)\
ti - Tigrinya (Eritrea, Ethiopia)\
tk - Turkmen (Turkmenistan)\
tl - Tagalog (Philippines)\
tr - Turkish (Turkey, Cyprus)\
tt - Tatar (Russia)\
ug - Uyghur (China - Xinjiang)\
uk - Ukrainian (Ukraine)\
ur - Urdu (Pakistan, India)\
uz - Uzbek (Uzbekistan)\
vi - Vietnamese (Vietnam)\
xh - Xhosa (South Africa)\
yi - Yiddish (Jewish communities worldwide)\
yo - Yoruba (Nigeria, Benin, Togo)\
zh - Chinese (Mandarin - China, Taiwan, Singapore)\
zu - Zulu (South Africa)
