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  • Code
  • Home Language

OM AB AC AD AA AK AE EF
(Afan) Oromo Abkhazian Abnaki Achumawi Afar Afrikaans Ahtena Akan
EK AF AL AG AH WJ AM AI
Akateko Alabama Albanian, Shqip Aleut Algonquian American Sign Language Amharic Apache
AR AJ
Arabic Arapaho
AO AP AN AS AQ AT AU AV WK AW AZ AX BA BC BQ BS
Araucanian Arikara Armenian, Hayeren Assamese Athapascan Atsina Atsugewi Aucanian Awadhi Aymara Azerbaijani Aztec Bantu Bashkir Basque, Euskera Bassa

  • BJ
  • Belarusian

  • Code
  • Home Language

BE BR BP DZ BH BI
Bengali, Bangla Berber Bhojpuri Bhutani Bihari Bislama
BG BF BL BU BD CB CC CD CA CN EC CT CE ZA ED CF CG CI
Blackfoot Breton Bulgarian Burmese, Myanmasa Byelorussian Caddo Cahuilla Cakchiquel Cambodian, Khmer Cantonese Carolinian Catalan Cayuga Cebuano Chamorro Chasta Costa Chemeheuvi Cherokee

  • CJ
  • Chetemacha

  • Cheyenne
  • CK

ZB ZC ZD CH CL CM ZE CP CQ CS EE
Chhattisgarhi Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Min Nau (Fukienese or Fujianese) Chinese, Zhongwen Chinook Jargon Chiricahua Chittagonian Chiwere Choctaw Chumash Chuukese/Trukese

  • Code
  • Home Language

CU CV CW CX CY DF CO DG DJ
Clallam Coast Miwok Cocomaricopa

Coeur D’Alene

Columbia Comanche Corsican Cowlitz Cree

  • ZF
  • Creole

HR DK DH DI
Croatian, Hrvatski Crow Cuna Cupeno
CZ DB DA DL DC DD DE DU DO EN EA EO ES
Czech Dakota Danish Deccan Delaware Delta River Yuman Diegueno Dutch, Netherlands Dzongkha English Eskimo Esperanto Estonian
EB FO FA FJ
Eyak Faroese Farsi, Persian Fijian

  • FL
  • Filipino

  • FI
  • Finnish, Suomi

Foothill North Yokuts Fox
FB FC FR FD
French French Cree

  • Code
  • Home Language

FY FU GL KA GE GR KL GF GB GC GU HB HC HD HY HA HF HE HG HH HL HI
Frisian Fulfulde, Nigerian Galician Georgian, Kartuli German Greek Greenlandic, Kalaallisut Guamanian Guarani Guaymi Gujarati Haida Haitian-Creole (Includes French Creole) Han Haryanvi Hausa Havasupai Hebrew, Iwrith Hichita Hidatsa Hiligaynon Hindi
HM HJ
Hmong Hopi
HU HK IC
Hungarian, Magyar Hupa Icelandic,Islenzk

  • Igbo
  • IO

  • IL
  • Ilacano

  • IG
  • Indian

  • IN
  • Indonesian, Bahasa Indonesia

  • Ingalit
  • IH

  • IA
  • Interlingua

Interlingue Inupiak
IE IB GA ID
Irish, Gaeilge Iroquois

  • Code
  • Home Language

  • Island Carib
  • IF

IT
Italian

JC
Jamaican Creole (includes Patois and Patwa)

Japanese, Nihongo Javanese, Bahasa Jawa Jicarilla
JA JW JB KD KX KV KE KF KS KC KK KG KH RW KI
Kalispel Kanjoval Kannada Kansa Karok Kashmiri Kawaiisu Kazakh Keres Kickapoo Kinyarwanda Kiowa

  • KJ
  • Kiowa-Apache

Kirghiz, Kyrgyz Kiribati
KY KN RN KB KM KO KT KW KZ KP KU KQ KR LO LA LB LV LN
Kirundi Klamath Koasati Korean, Choson-o Kosraen Koyukon Kpelle (Guerze) Kuchin Kurdish, Zimany Kurdy Kutenai Kwakiutl Lamnso Laotian, Pha Xa Lao Latin Latvian, Lettish Lingala

  • Code
  • Home Language

  • LI
  • Lithuanian

Lombard Lower Chehalis Luiseno
LM LC LD MB NJ
Macedonian Madura

  • XI
  • Magahi

XN XJ
Maidu Maithili
ME MA MS ML MT MF MG MD NR MR MZ XK MH MJ
Makah Malagasy Malay, Bahasa Malaysia Malayalam Maltese Mam Mandan Mandarin Maori Marathi Marshallese Marwari Mayan Menomini

  • Miami
  • MM

MN MP XO MQ MU MV MC MO MW MX MY NS
Micmac Mikasuki Miwok Mixtec Mohave Mohawk Moldavian Mongolian Mono Mountain Maidu Muskogee Napoletano - Calabrese

  • Nauru
  • NA

  • Code
  • Home Language

NB NE NC ND NF NG NH NI
Navaho Nepali Nez Perce Nomlaki Nootka Nootsack Northern Paiute Northwest Maidu Norwegian Not Applicable Occitan
NO ZZ OC OA OB OD OE OF OR OG OT OH OI
Ojibwa Okanogan Omaha Oneida Onondaga Oriya Osage Other Other Athapascan-Eyak Ottawa
PB PC PU PX PD PJ
Pacific Gulf Yupik Paiute Palauan Pamiamento Panamint Panjabi, Punjabi Pashto (Includes Pushtu) Passamaquoddy Patwin
PA PF PG PH PK PL
Pawnee Penobscot Picuris
PM PN PV PO
Pima Plains Miwok Pohnpeians Polish

  • Code
  • Home Language

  • PP
  • Pomo

PQ PR PS
Ponca Portuguese Potawatomi Puget Sound Salish Quapaw
PT OJ OK OL ON OO RA RM RS RB SB SF
Quechua Quekchi Quiche Quinault Rhaeto-Romance Rumanian, Romanian Russian Rwanda Sahaptian Saint Lawrence Island Yupik

  • Salish
  • SQ

SM SV SS
Samoan San Carlos Sandia
SG SA SX XQ GD SY EP
Sangho Sanskrit Santiam Saraiki Scots Gaelic Seneca Sepedi
SK SR SZ
Serbian, Srpski Serbo-Croatian Serrano

  • ST
  • Sesotho

TN VA VB SN VC VD
Setswana Shastan Shawnee Shona Shoshoni Sierra Miwok

  • Code
  • Home Language

SD SC XL SI
Sindhi Singhalese Sinhala Siswati
VE SL SJ
Siuslaw Slovak Slovenian

  • Somali
  • SO

VF VG SP
Southern Maidu Southern Paiute Spanish
VH SU SH SW TF TA TG TB TJ
Spokane Sundanese Swahili Swedish, Svenska Tachi Tagalog Tajik Tamil Tanacross Tanaina Tanana
TL TM TP TQ TT TE TR TH TI
Tarahumara Tarascan Tatar Telugu Tewa Thai Tibetan, Bodskad Tigrinya Tillamook Tiwa
TC TV TX TY TO XA TZ XB
Tlingit Tonga Tonkawa Towa Tsimshian

  • Code
  • Home Language

  • TS
  • Tsonga

XC XD TU TK XE XF
Tubatulabal Tupi Turkish Turkmen Tuscarora Tutchone

  • Twana
  • XG

TD UK UA UB UC UD UE UF
Twi Ukranian Up River Yuman Upland Yuman Upper Chehalis Upper Chinook Upper Kuskokwim Upper Tanana

  • Urdu
  • UR

UG UY UZ VI
Ute Uyghur Uzbek Vietnamese

  • Visayan
  • VS

VO WA WB WC WE WD WF WG WH WO WI
Volapuk Walapai Wappo Washo Welsh Wichita Winnebago Wintun Wiyot Wolof Wyandot

  • Xhosa
  • XH

YK YA YB
Yapese Yaqui Yavapai

  • Code
  • Home Language

  • YI
  • Yiddish, Jiddisch

Yoruba Yuchi
YO YC YD YE YF YG YH ZH ZU YJ
Yuki Yuma Yupik Yurok Zapotec Zhuan, Northern Zulu Zuni

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