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LEP Heritage Language Codes LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 (post 1500) 0000 Abkhazian 0010 ab abk abk Achinese 0020 ace ace Acoli 0030 ach ach Adangme 0040 ada ada Adygei 0050 ady ady Adyghe 0060 ady ady Afar 0070 aa aar aar Afrikaans 0090 af afr afr Afro-Asiatic (Other) 0100 afa Ainu (Japan) 6010 ain ain Akan 0110 ak aka aka Albanian 0130 sq alb/sqi sqi Alemannic 6300 gsw gsw Aleut 0140 ale ale Algonquian languages 0150 alg Alsatian 6310 gsw gsw Altaic (Other) 0160 tut Amharic 0170 am amh amh Angika 6020 anp anp Apache languages 0180 apa Arabic 0190 ar ara ara Aragonese 0200 an arg arg Arapaho 0220 arp arp Araucanian 0230 arn arn Arawak 0240 arw arw Armenian 0250 hy arm/hye hye Aromanian 6410 Arumanian 6160 Assamese 0270 as asm asm Asturian 0280 ast ast Asturleonese 6170 Athapascan languages 0290 ath Australian languages 0300 aus Austronesian (Other) 0310 map Avaric 0320 av ava ava Awadhi 0340 awa awa Aymara 0350 ay aym aym Azerbaijani 0360 az aze aze Bable 0370 ast ast Balinese 0380 ban ban Baltic (Other) 0390 bat Baluchi 0400 bal bal Bambara 0410 bm bam bam Bamileke languages 0420 bai LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 Banda 0430 bad Bantu (Other) 0440 bnt Basa 0450 bas bas Bashkir 0460 ba bak bak Basque 0470 eu baq/eus eus Batak (Indonesia) 0480 btk Bedawiyet 6180 bej bej Beja 0490 bej bej Belarusian 0500 be bel bel Bemba 0510 bem bem Bengali; ben 0520 bn ben ben Berber (Other) 0530 ber Bhojpuri 0540 bho bho Bihari 0550 bh bih Bikol 0560 bik bik Bilin 0570 byn byn Bini 0580 bin bin Bislama 0590 bi bis bis Blin 0600 byn byn Blissy 6210 zbl zbl Blissymbolics 6200 zbl zbl Blissymbols 6110 zbl zbl Bokmål Norwegian 0610 nb nob nob Bosnian 0620 bs bos bos Braj 0630 bra bra Breton 0640 br bre bre Buginese 0650 bug bug Bulgarian 0660 bg bul bul Buriat 0670 bua bua Burmese 0680 my bur/mya mya Caddo 0690 cad cad Carib 0700 car car Castilian 0710 es spa spa Catalan 0720 ca cat cat Caucasian (Other) 0730 cau Cebuano 0740 ceb ceb Celtic (Other) 0750 cel Central American Indian (Other) 0760 cai Chamic languages 0780 cmc Chamorro 0790 ch cha cha Chechen 0800 ce che che Cherokee 0810 chr chr Chewa 0820 ny nya nya Cheyenne 0830 chy chy Chichewa 0850 ny nya nya LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 Chinese 0860 zh chi/zho zho Chinook jargon 0870 chn chn Chipewyan 0880 chp chp Choctaw 0890 cho cho Chuang 0900 za zha zha Chuukese 0930 chk chk Chuvash 0940 cv chv chv Classical Nepal Bhasa 6230 nwc nwc Classical Newari 0950 nwc nwc Cook Islands Maori 6280 rar rar Cornish 0970 kw cor cor Corsican 0980 co cos cos Cree 0990 cr cre cre Creek 1000 mus mus Creoles and pidgins English-based (Other) 1020 cpe Creoles and pidgins French-based (Other) 1030 cpf Creoles and pidgins Portuguese-based (Other) 1040 cpp Creoles and pidgins (Other) 1010 crp Crimean Tatar 1050 crh crh Crimean Turkish 1060 crh crh Croatian 1070 hrv Cushitic (Other) 1080 cus Czech 1090 cs cze/ces ces Dakota 1100 dak dak Danish 1110 da dan dan Dargwa 1120 dar dar Dayak 1130 day Delaware 1140 del del Dene Suline 6220 chp chp Dimili 6320 zza zza Dimli 6330 zza zza Dinka 1150 din din Divehi 1160 dv div div Dogri 1170 doi doi Dogrib 1180 dgr dgr Dravidian (Other) 1190 dra Duala 1200 dua dua Dutch/ Flemish 1210 nl dut/nld nld Dyula 1230 dyu dyu Dzongkha 1240 dz dzo dzo Eastern Frisian 6040 frs frs edo 6190 bin bin Efik 1250 efi efi Ekajuk 1270 eka eka English 1290 en eng eng LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 Erzya 1320 myv myv Estonian 1340 et est est Ewe 1350 ee ewe ewe Ewondo 1360 ewo ewo Fang 1370 fan fan Fanti 1380 fat fat Faroese 1390 fo fao fao Fijian 1400 fj fij fij Filipino 1401 fil fil Finnish 1410 fi fin fin Finno-Ugrian (Other) 1420 fiu Fon 1430 fon fon French 1440 fr fre/fra fra Frisian 1470 fy fry fry Friulian 1480 fur fur Fulah 1490 ff ful ful Ga 1500 gaa gaa Gaelic 1510 gd gla gla Galibi Carib 6240 Galician 6250 Gallegan 1520 gl glg glg Ganda 1530 lg lug lug Gayo 1540 gay gay Gbaya 1550 gba gba Georgian 1570 ka geo/kat kat German 1580 deu ger/deu de German Low 1590 nds nds Germanic (Other) 1620 gem Gikuyu: Kikkuyu 1630 ki kik kik Gilbertese 1640 gil gil Gondi 1650 gon gon Gorontalo 1660 gor gor Grebo 1680 grb grb Greek Modern (1453-) 1700 ell gre/ell el Greenlandic; Kalaallisut 1701 kl kal kal Guarani 1710 gn grn grn Gujarati 1720 gu guj guj Gwich´in 1730 gwi gwi Haida 1740 hai hai Haitian 1750 ht hat hat Haitian Creole 1760 ht hat hat Hausa 1770 ha hau hau Hawaiian 1780 haw haw Hebrew 1790 he heb heb Herero 1800 hz her her LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 Hiligaynon 1810 hil hil Himachali 1820 him Hindi 1830 hi hin hin Hiri Motu 1840 ho hmo hmo Hittite 1850 hit hit Hmong 1860 hmn hmn Hungarian 1870 hu hun hun Hupa 1880 hup hup Iban 1890 iba iba Icelandic 1900 is ice/isl isl Igbo 1920 ig ibo ibo Ijo 1930 ijo Iloko 1940 ilo ilo Inari Sami 1950 smn smn Indic (Other) 1960 inc Indo-European (Other) 1970 ine Indonesian 1980 id ind ind Ingush 1990 inh inh Inuktitut 2020 iu iku iku Inupiaq 2030 ik ipk ipk Iranian (Other) 2040 ira Irish 2050 ga gle gle Iroquoian languages 2080 iro Italian 2090 it ita ita Japanese 2100 ja jpn jpn Javanese 2110 jv jav jav Jingpho 6260 kac kac Judeo-Arabic 2120 jrb jrb Judeo-Persian 2130 jpr jpr Kabardian 2140 kbd kbd Kabyle 2150 kab kab Kachin 2160 kac kac Kalaallisut; Greenlandic 2170 kl kal kal Kalmyk 2180 xal xal Kamba 2190 kam kam Kannada 2200 kn kan kan Kanuri 2210 kr kau kau Kapampangan 6270 pam pam Kara-Kalpak 2230 kaa kaa Karachay-Balkar 2220 krc krc Karelian 6060 krl krl Karen 2240 kar Kashmiri 2250 ks kas kas Kashubian 2260 csb csb Kazakh 2280 kk kaz kaz LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 Khasi 2290 kha kha Khmer 2300 km khm khm Khoisan (Other) 2310 khi Khotanese 2320 kho kho Kikuyu 2330 ki kik kik Kimbundu 2340 kmb kmb Kinyarwanda 2350 rw kin kin kirdki 6340 zza zza Kirghiz 2360 ky kir kir Kirmanjki 6350 zza zza Komi 2380 kv kom kom Kongo 2390 kg kon kon Konkani 2400 kok kok Korean 2410 ko kor kor Kosraean 2420 kos kos Kpelle 2430 kpe kpe Kru 2440 kro Kuanyama 2450 kj kua kua Kumyk 2460 kum kum Kurdish 2470 ku kur kur Kurukh 2480 kru kru Kutenai 2490 kut kut Kwanyama 2500 kj kua kua Ladino 2510 lad lad Lahnda 2520 lah lah Lamba 2530 lam lam Lao 2540 lo lao lao Latvian 2560 lv lav lav Leonese 6420 Letzeburgesch 2570 lb ltz ltz Lezghian 2580 lez lez Limburgan 2590 li lim lim Limburger 2600 li lim lim limburgish 2610 li lim lim Lingala 2620 ln lin lin Lithuanian 2630 lt lit lit Low German 2650 nds nds Low Saxon 2660 nds nds Lower Sorbian 2670 dsb dsb Lozi 2680 loz loz Luba-Katanga 2690 lu lub lub Luba-Lulua 2700 lua lua Luiseno 2710 lui lui Lule Sami 2720 smj smj Lunda 2730 lun lun LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) 2740 luo luo Lushai 2750 lus lus Luxembourgish 2760 lb ltz ltz Macedo-Romanian 6080 rup rup Macedonian 2770 mk mac/mkd mkd Madurese 2780 mad mad Magahi 2790 mag mag Maithili 2800 mai mai Makasar 2810 mak mak Malagasy 2820 mg mlg mlg Malay 2830 mss may/msa msa Malayalam 2840 ml mal mal Maltese 2850 mt mlt mlt Mandar 2870 mdr mdr Mandingo 2880 man man Manipuri 2890 mni mni Manobo languages 2900 mno Manx 2910 gv glv glv Maori 2920 mi mao/mri mri Mapuche 6150 arn arn Mapudungun 6140 arn arn Marathi 2930 mr mar mar Mari 2940 chm chm Marshallese 2950 mh mah mah Marwari 2960 mwr mwr Masai 2970 mas mas Mayan languages 2980 myn Mende 2990 men men Mi’kmaq 3001 mic mic Micmac 3000 mic mic Minangkabau 3010 min min Mirandese 3011 mwl mwl Miscellaneous languages 3020 mis mis Mohawk 3030 moh moh Moksha 3040 mdf mdf Moldavian 3050 mol Mon-Khmer (Other) 3060 mkh Mongo 3070 lol lol Mongolian 3080 mn mon mon Mossi 3090 mos mos Multiple languages 3100 mul mul Munda languages 3110 mun N'Ko 6070 nqo nqo Nahuatl 3120 nah Nauru 3130 na nau nau LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 Navaho 3140 nv nav nav Navajo 3150 nv nav nav Ndebele North 3160 nd nde nde Ndebele South 3170 nr nbl nbl Ndonga 3180 ng ndo ndo Neapolitan 3190 nap nap Nepali 3200 ne nep nep Newari; Nepal Bhasa 3210 new new Nias 3220 nia nia Niger-Kordofanian (Other) 3230 nic Nilo-Saharan (Other) 3240 ssa Niuean 3250 niu niu Nogai 3260 nog nog North American Indian (Other) 3280 nai North Ndebele 3300 nd nde nde Northern Frisian 6030 frr frr Northern Sami 3290 se sme sme Northern Sotho 3291 nso nso Norwegian 3310 no nor nor Norwegian Bokmål 3320 nb nob nob Norwegian Nynorsk 3330 nn nno nno Nubian languages 3340 nub Nuosu 6290 ii iii iii Nyamwezi 3350 nym nym Nyanja 3360 ny nya nya Nyankole 3370 nyn nyn Nynorsk Norwegian 3380 nn nno nno Nyoro 3390 nyo nyo Nzima 3400 nzi nzi Occidental 6430 ie ile ile Occitan (post 1500) 3410 oc oci oci Ojibwa 3420 oj oji oji Old Bulgarian 3430 cu chu chu Old Church Slavonic 3440 cu chu chu Old Newari 3450 nwc nwc Old Slavonic 3460 cu chu chu Oriya 3470 or ori ori Oromo 3480 om orm orm Ossetian 3500 os oss oss Ossetic 3510 os oss oss Otomian languages 3520 oto Palauan 3540 pau pau Pampanga 3560 pam pam Pangasinan 3570 pag pag Panjabi 3580 pa pan pan LEP Heritage Language Codes LanguageName LanguageCode ISO1 ISO2 ISO3 Papiamento 3590 pap pap Papuan (Other) 3600 paa Pedi 3601 nso nso Persian 3610 fa per/fas fas Philippine (Other) 3630 phi Pilipino 3641 fil fil Pohnpeian 3650 pon pon Polish 3660 pl pol pol Portuguese 3670 pt por por Prakrit languages 3680 pra Provençal;Occitan 3690 oc oci oci Punjabi 3710 pa pan pan Pushto 3720 ps pus pus Quechua 3730 qu que que Raeto-Romance 3740 rm roh roh
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