Language Codes: ISO 639, Microsoft and Macintosh___收藏

Language Codes:  ISO 639, Microsoft and Macintosh

 

1996.12.19	Mark Davis	First version
1997.04.14	Mark Davis	Updates based on feedback from Michael Everson
1997.07.08	Mark Davis	Updates from K.D. Chang (Microsoft)
2001.07.16	Michael S. Kaplan	Updates from Microsoft and Apple for new languages
2002.09.16	Magda Danish	Updates from ISO 639-2 Change Notices

 

The following is a draft list of language code correspondences between ISO codes, Microsoft codes, and Macintosh codes. (USMARC language and country codes are not included in this list).

The correspondences are not 1-1. Macintosh codes sometimes have two variants, depending on the script the language is written. In such cases, the script is indicated in parantheses in the name (where not clear from the name itself), with a one-letter abbreviation on the code. Similarly, Microsoft codes are sometimes not script-specific and in cases where a language is not really properly identified without this information, the script information appears as well.

Macintosh constants and codes are defined in enumerations in the Mac header file Script.h and Windows constants and codes are defined in the Platform SDK header file winnt.h. Note that many of the Microsoft codes have no "Windows Name" constant (these are marked "(no constant defined)" and refer to codes that have been reserved for the languages in question. For more information about the LCID (Locale ID) parameter (of which the PRIMARY_LANGID codes given below are merely a part), see the Microsoft Platform SDK docs.

Unfortunately, ISO codes are not stable, and have changed over time. There are currently three languages with multiple codes (for Hebrew, Indonesian, and Yiddish). So that you can communicate both with new and old software, one strategy is the following:

• When reading: always read and interpret both of the variants
• When writing: write the second, (oldest) one - marked with an asterisk - for legacy applications that cannot manage correctly the new standard code or for classes of applications for which you are not certain that they can use the new standard. All applications, file formats and protocols specified after 1995 should work with the new standard code (this will include all XML and HTML4.01 applications, and all applications that can use version 3.0 of the Unicode standard)

If you find an error in this information, please contact the Unicode office. Please note, however, that the Unicode Consortium does not own or maintain ISO 639 and neither bears responsibility for its contents nor has the ability to change them. Please do not contact the Unicode Consortium if the ISO 639 language names are not what you believe they should be. Similarly, the Unicode is not responsible for the names or codes used by Microsoft or Macintosh.

Language	ISO Code	Windows Name	Win Code	Mac Name	Mac Code
Abkhazian	ab
Afar	aa
Afrikaans	af	LANG_AFRIKAANS	0x36	langAfricaans	141
Albanian	sq	LANG_ALBANIAN	0x1c	langAlbanian	36
Amharic	am	(no constant defined)	0x5e	langAmharic	85
Arabic	ar	LANG_ARABIC	0x01	langArabic	12
Armenian	hy	LANG_ARMENIAN	0x2b	langArmenian	51
Assamese	as	LANG_ASSAMESE	0x4d	langAssamese	68
Aymara	ay			langAymara	134
Azerbaijani	az	LANG_AZERI	0x2c	langAzerbaijani(Cyrllic), langAzerbaijanAr(Arabic)	49(C), 50(A)
Bashkir	ba
Basque	eu	LANG_BASQUE	0x2d	langBasque	129
Bengali (Bangla)	bn	LANG_BENGALI	0x45	langBengali	67
Bhutani	dz			langDzongkha	137
Bihari	bh
Bislama	bi
Breton	br			langBreton	142
Bulgarian	bg	LANG_BULGARIAN	0x02	langBulgarian	44
Burmese	my	(no constant defined)	0x55	langBurmese	77
Byelorussian (Belarusian)	be	LANG_BELARUSIAN	0x23	langByelorussian	46
Cambodian	km	(no constant defined)	0x53	langKhmer	78
Catalan	ca	LANG_CATALAN	0x03	langCatalan	130
Cherokee		(no constant defined)	0x5c
Chewa				langChewa	92
Chinese (Simplified)	zh	LANG_CHINESE (SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED)	0x04 (0x0804)	langSimpChinese	33
Chinese (Traditional)	zh	LANG_CHINESE (SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL)	0x04 (0x0404)	langTradChinese	19
Corsican	co
Croatian	hr	LANG_CROATIAN	0x1a	langCroatian	18
Czech	cs	LANG_CZECH	0x05	langCzech	38
Danish	da	LANG_DANISH	0x06	langDanish	7
Divehi		LANG_DIVEHI	0x65
Dutch	nl	LANG_DUTCH	0x13	langDutch	4
Edo		(no constant defined)	0x66
English	en	LANG_ENGLISH	0x09	langEnglish	0
Esperanto	eo			langEsperanto	94
Estonian	et	LANG_ESTONIAN	0x25	langEstonian	27
Faeroese	fo	LANG_FAEROESE	0x38	langFaeroese	30
Farsi	fa	LANG_FARSI	0x29	langFarsi, langPersian	31
Fiji	fj
Finnish	fi	LANG_FINNISH	0x0b	langFinnish	13
Flemish		LANG_DUTCH (SUBLANG_DUTCH_BELGIAN)	0x13 (0x0813)	langFlemish	34
French	fr	LANG_FRENCH	0x0c	langFrench	1
Frisian	fy	(no constant defined)	0x62
Fulfulde		(no constant defined)	0x67
Galician	gl	LANG_GALICIAN	0x56	langGalician	140
Gaelic (Scottish)	gd	(no constant defined)	0x3c (0x043c)	langScottishGaelic	144
Gaelic (Manx)	gv			langManxGaelic	145
Georgian	ka	LANG_GEORGIAN	0x37	langGeorgian	52
German	de	LANG_GERMAN	0x07	langGerman	2
Greek	el	LANG_GREEK	0x08	langGreek (monotonic), langGreekPoly (polytonic)	14(m), 148(p)
Greenlandic	kl
Guarani	gn	(no constant defined)	0x74	langGuarani	133
Gujarati	gu	LANG_GUJARATI	0x47	langGujarati	69
Hausa	ha	(no constant defined)	0x68
Hawaiian		(no constant defined)	0x75
Hebrew	he, iw*	LANG_HEBREW	0x0d	langHebrew	10
Hindi	hi	LANG_HINDI	0x39	langHindi	21
Hungarian	hu	LANG_HUNGARIAN	0x0e	langHungarian	26
Ibibio		(no constant defined)	0x69
Icelandic	is	LANG_ICELANDIC	0x0f	langIcelandic	15
Igbo		(no constant defined)	0x70
Indonesian	id, in*	LANG_INDONESIAN	0x21	langIndonesian	81
Interlingua	ia
Interlingue	ie
Inuktitut	iu	(no constant defined)	0x5d	langInuktitut	143
Inupiak	ik
Irish	ga	(no constant defined)	0x3c (0x083c)	langIrishGaelic (normal), langIrishGaelicScr (dots above)	35, 146
Italian	it	LANG_ITALIAN	0x10	langItalian	3
Japanese	ja	LANG_JAPANESE	0x11	langJapanese	11
Javanese	jv			langJavaneseRom	138
Kannada	kn	LANG_KANNADA	0x4b	langKannada	73
Kanuri		(no constant defined)	0x71
Kashmiri	ks	LANG_KASHMIRI	0x60	langKashmiri	61
Kazakh	kk	LANG_KAZAK	0x3f	langKazakh	48
Kinyarwanda (Ruanda)	rw			langKiryarwanda (langRuanda)	90
Kirghiz	ky	LANG_KYRGYZ	0x40	langKirghiz	54
Kirundi (Rundi)	rn			langRundi	91
Konkani		LANG_KONKANI	0x57
Korean	ko	LANG_KOREAN	0x12	langKorean	23
Kurdish	ku			langKurdish	60
Laothian	lo	(no constant defined)	0x54	langLao	79
Latin	la	(no constant defined)	0x76	langLatin	131
Latvian (Lettish)	lv	LANG_LATVIAN	0x26	langLatvian	28
Limburgish ( Limburger)	li
Lingala	ln
Lithuanian	lt	LANG_LITHUANIAN	0x27	langLithuanian	24
Macedonian	mk	LANG_MACEDONIAN	0x2f	langMacedonian	43
Malagasy	mg			langMalagasy	93
Malay	ms	LANG_MALAY	0x3e	langMalayRoman(Latin), langMalayArabic(Arabic)	83(L), 84(A)
Malayalam	ml	LANG_MALAYALAM	0x4c	langMalayalam	72
		LANG_MANIPURI	0x58
Maltese	mt	(no constant defined)	0x3a	langMaltese	16
Maori	mi
Marathi	mr	LANG_MARATHI	0x4e	langMarathi	66
Moldavian	mo			langMoldavian	53
Mongolian	mn	LANG_MONGOLIAN	0x50	langMongolian(Mongolian), langMongolianCyr(Cyrillic)	57(M), 58(C)
Nauru	na
Nepali	ne	LANG_NEPALI	0x61	langNepali	64
Norwegian	no	LANG_NORWEGIAN	0x14	langNorwegian	9
Occitan	oc
Oriya	or	LANG_ORIYA	0x48	langOriya	71
Oromo (Afan, Galla)	om	(no constant defined)	0x72	langOromo (langGalla)	87
Papiamentu		(no constant defined)	0x79
Pashto (Pushto)	ps	(no constant defined)	0x63	langPashto	59
Polish	pl	LANG_POLISH	0x15	langPolish	25
Portuguese	pt	LANG_PORTUGUESE	0x16	langPortuguese	8
Punjabi	pa	LANG_PUNJABI	0x46	langPunjabi	70
Quechua	qu			langQuechua	132
Rhaeto-Romance	rm	(no constant defined)	0x17
Romanian	ro	LANG_ROMANIAN	0x18	langRomanian	37
Russian	ru	LANG_RUSSIAN	0x19	langRussian	32
Sami (Lappish)		(no constant defined)	0x3b	langSami (langLappish)	29
Samoan	sm
Sangro	sg
Sanskrit	sa	LANG_SANSKRIT	0x4f	langSanskrit	65
Serbian	sr	LANG_SERBIAN (SUBLANG_SERBIAN_LATIN or SUBLANG_SERBIAN_CYRILLIC)	0x1a (0x081a or 0x0c1a)	langSerbian	42
Serbo-Croatian	sh
Sesotho	st
Setswana	tn
Shona	sn
Sindhi	sd	LANG_SINDHI	0x59	langSindhi	62
Sinhalese	si	(no constant defined)	0x5b	langSinhalese	76
Siswati	ss
Slovak	sk	LANG_SLOVAK	0x1b	langSlovak	39
Slovenian	sl	LANG_SLOVENIAN	0x24	langSlovenian	40
Somali	so	(no constant defined)	0x77	langSomali	88
Spanish	es	LANG_SPANISH	0x0a	langSpanish	6
Sundanese	su			langSundaneseRom	139
Swahili (Kiswahili)	sw	LANG_SWAHILI	0x41	langSwahili	89
Swedish	sv	LANG_SWEDISH	0x1d	langSwedish	5
Syriac		LANG_SYRIAC	0x5a
Tagalog	tl	(no constant defined)	0x64	langTagalog	82
Tajik	tg	(no constant defined)	0x28	langTajiki	55
Tamazight		(no constant defined)	0x5f
Tamil	ta	LANG_TAMIL	0x49	langTamil	74
Tatar	tt	LANG_TATAR	0x44	langTatar	135
Telugu	te	LANG_TELUGU	0x4a	langTelugu	75
Thai	th	LANG_THAI	0x1e	langThai	22
Tibetan	bo	(no constant defined)	0x51	langTibetan	63
Tigrinya	ti	(no constant defined)	0x73	langTigrinya	86
Tonga	to			langTongan	147
Tsonga	ts	(no constant defined)	0x31
Turkish	tr	LANG_TURKISH	0x1f	langTurkish	17
Turkmen	tk	(no constant defined)	0x42	langTurkmen	56
Twi	tw
Uighur	ug			langUighur	136
Ukrainian	uk	LANG_UKRAINIAN	0x22	langUkrainian	45
Urdu	ur	LANG_URDU	0x20	langUrdu	20
Uzbek	uz	LANG_UZBEK	0x43	langUzbek	47
Venda		(no constant defined)	0x33
Vietnamese	vi	LANG_VIETNAMESE	0x2a	langVietnamese	80
Volapük	vo
Welsh	cy	(no constant defined)	0x52	langWelsh	128
Wolof	wo
Xhosa	xh	(no constant defined)	0x34
Yi		(no constant defined)	0x78
Yiddish	yi, ji*	(no constant defined)	0x3d	langYiddish	41
Yoruba	yo	(no constant defined)	0x6a
Zulu	zu	(no constant defined)	0x35