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TMX language codes

DISCLAIMER: This list is offered as quick reference, and does not pretend to contain all language codes. ISO lists of languages and countries are regularly updated. No guarantee and no liability are implied.

Most of the programs that implement the TMX standard for Translation Memory eXchange use language codes made of a lower-case, two-character language code compliant with ISO 639-1, followed by a minus sign, then a two-character upper-case country code compliant with ISO 3166 alpha-2. Three-character language ISO codes can also be used, but we do not recommend those, as they are rarity in the industry.

In the early days a -01 suffix was sometimes used instead of the country code when a language was limited to a single country. In addition, language codes were sometimes capitalized, so for example it was common to see JA-01 for Japanese when it should be ja-JP, or EN-UK instead of the canonical en-GB. Since TMX TMs are text files, a simple search-replace operation with a text editor will fix the issue. For example, run a case-sensitive search for "JA-01", replace it with "ja-JP", including quotes.

Kindly contact us if you find errors or omissions.

Happy translations,
Yves Champollion & the Wordfast Team

 ab-RU : Abkhaz

 aa-ET : Afar

 af-ZA : Afrikaans

 sq-SQ : Albanian

 am-ET : Amharic

 grc * : Ancient Greek

•ar-AE : Arabic (UAE)

•ar-BH : Arabic (Bahrein)

•ar-DZ : Arabic (Algeria)

•ar-EG : Arabic (Egypt)

•ar-IQ : Arabic (Iraq)

•ar-JO : Arabic (Jordan)

•ar-KW : Arabic (Kuwait)

•ar-LB : Arabic (Lebanon)

•ar-LY : Arabic (Lybia)

•ar-MA : Arabic (Morocco)

•ar-OM : Arabic (Oman)

•ar-QA : Arabic (Quatar)

•ar-SA : Arabic (Saudi Arabia)

•ar-SY : Arabic (Syria)

•ar-TU : Arabic (Tunisia)

•ar-YE : Arabic (Yemen)

 hy-AM : Armenian

 as-IN : Assamese

 st-ES : Asturian

 ae-IR : Avestan

 ay-BO : Aymara

 az-AZ : Azerbaidjani

 ba-RU : Bashkir

 eu-ES : Basque

 be-BY : Belarusian

 bn-IN : Bengali

 al-IR : Bhutani

 bh-IN : Bihari

 bi-VU : Bislama

 bs-BA : Bosnian

 bs-BS : Bosnian (Cyr.)

 pt-BR : Brazilian Portuguese

 br-FR : Breton

 bg-BG : Bulgarian

 my-BU : Burmese

 be-BY : Byelorussian

 ca-AD : Catalan

 ch-US : Chamorro

 ce-RU : Chechen

 ny-MW : Chichewa

•zh-CN : Chinese PRC, simpl.

•zh-HK : Chinese HK, trad.

•zh-SG : Chinese Sing., trad.

•zh-TW : Chinese Taiwan, trad.

 cv-RU : Chuvash

 kw-GB : Cornish

 co-FR : Corsican

 hr-BA : Croatian (B. & H.)

 hr-HR : Croatian (Croatia)

 cs-CZ : Czech

 da-DK : Danish

 rs-AF : Dari

 dv-MV : Dihevi (Maldives)

 dv-IN : Divehi

•nl-BE : Dutch (Belgium)

•nl-NL : Dutch (Netherlands)

 dz-BT : Dzongkha

•en-AU : English (Australia)

•en-BZ : English (Belize)

•en-GB : English (UK)

•en-IE : English (Ireland)

•en-JM : English (Jamaica)

•en-NZ : English (New Zealand)

•en-TT : English (Trinidad)

•en-US : English (USA)

•en-ZA : English (South Africa)

 eo-01 : Esperanto

 et-EE : Estonian

 fo-FO : Faroese

 fa-IR : Farsi

 fj-FJ : Fijian

 fi-FI : Finnish

 nl-BE : Flemish

•fr-BE : French (Belgium)

•fr-CA : French (Canada)

•fr-CH : French (Switzerland)

•fr-FR : French (France)

•fr-LU : French (Luxembourg)

 fy-NL : Frisian

 gl-ES : Galician

 ka-GE : Georgian

•de-AT : German (Austria)

•de-DE : German (Germany)

•de-LI : German (Liechtenstein)

•de-LU : German (Luxembourg)

•de-CH : German (Switzerland)

 el-GR : Greek

 kl-GL : Greenlandic

 gn-PY : Guarani

 gu-IN : Gujarati

 ht-HT : Haitian

 ha-NG : Hausa

 he-IL : Hebrew

 hz-01 : Herero

 hi-IN : Hindi

 ho-01 : Hiri Motu

 hu-HU : Hungarian

 is-IS : Icelandic

 io-01 : Ido

 id-ID : Indonesian

 iu-CA : Inuktitut

 ik-01 : Inupiaq

 ga-IE : Irish

•it-IT : Italian (Italy)

•it-CH : Italian (Switzerland)

 ja-JP : Japanese

 jv-ID : Javanese

 kl-01 : Kalaallisut

 kn-IN : Kannada

 ks-IN : Kashmiri

 kk-KZ : Kazakh

 km-KH : Khmer

 kg-CG : Kikongo

 rw-RW : Kinyarwanda

 ky-KG : Kirghiz

 sw-KE : Kiswahili

 kv-01 : Komi

 ok-IN : Konkani

 ko-KR : Korean

 ku-TR : Kurdish

 lo-LA : Lao

 lo-LA : Laotian

 la-01 : Latin

 lv-LV : Latvian

 li-LU : Limburgish

 ln-CG : Lingala

 lt-LT : Lithuanian

 lb-LU : Luxembourgish

 mk-MK : Macedonian

 mg-MG : Malagasy

 ms-BN : Malay (Brunei)

 ms-MY : Malay (Malaysia)

 ml-IN : Malayalam

 mt-MT : Maltese

 gv-GB : Manx

 mi-NZ : Maori

 mr-IN : Marathi

 mh-MH : Marshallese

 mo-MD : Moldavian

 mn-MN : Mongolian

 la-ME : Montenegrin

 na-NR : Nauru

 nd-ZW : Ndebele

 ng-NA : Ndonga

 ne-NP : Nepali

 ns-ZA : Northern Sotho

 no-NO : Norwegian

 oc-FR : Occitan

 or-IN : Oriya

 om-ET : Oromo

 os-01 : Ossetian

 pi-01 : Pali

 pa-IN : Panjabi/Punjabi

 fa-IR : Persian

 pl-PL : Polish

 pt-BR : Portuguese

 ps-AF : Pushto/Pashto

 qu-PE : Quechua (Bolivia)

 qu-EC : Quechua (Ecuador)

 qu-PE : Quechua (Peru)

 rm-CH : Rhaeto-Romance

 ro-RO : Romanian

 rn-BI : Rundi

 ru-RU : Russian

 se-FI : Sami (Finland)

 se-NO : Sami (Norway)

 se-SE : Sami (Sweden)

 sm-WS : Samoan

 sg-CF : Sango

 sa-IN : Sanskrit

 sc-IT : Sardinian

 gd-GB : Scottish

 sr-BA : Serbian (B & H)

 sr-YU : Serbian (S & M)

 tn-ZA : Setswana

 sn-SW : Shona

 sd-PK : Sindhi

 si-LK : Singhalese

 si-IN : Sinhalese

 sk-SK : Slovak

 sl-SI : Slovenian

 so-SO : Somali

 sb-DE : Sorbian

 sb-DE : Sorbian

•es-AR : Spanish (Argentina)

•es-BO : Spanish (Bolivia)

•es-CL : Spanish (Chile)

•es-CO : Spanish (Colombia)

•es-CR : Spanish (Costa Rica)

•es-DO : Spanish (Dominican Rep.)

•es-EC : Spanish (Ecuador)

•es-ES : Spanish (Spain)

•es-GT : Spanish (Guatemala)

•es-HN : Spanish (Honduras)

•es-MX : Spanish (Mexico)

•es-NI : Spanish (Nicaragua)

•es-PA : Spanish (Panama)

•es-PE : Spanish (Peru)

•es-PR : Spanish (Puerto-Rico)

•es-PY : Spanish (Paraguay)

•es-SV : Spanish (El Salvador)

•es-UY : Spanish (Uruguay)

•es-VE : Spanish (Venezuela)

 pd-SD : Sudanese

 su-IN : Sundanese

 sw-KE : Swahili (Kenya)

 sv-SE : Swedish

 sv-FI : Swedish (Finnish variant)

 yr-TR : Syriac

 tl-PH : Tagalog

 ty-FR : Tahitian

 tg-TJ : Tajik

 ta-IN : Tamil

 tt-RU : Tatar

 te-IN : Telugu

 et-ID : Tetum

 th-TH : Thai

 bo-CN : Tibetan

 ti-ET : Tigrinya

 to-TO : Tonga

 ts-ZA : Tsonga

 tn-BW : Tswana

 tr-TR : Turkish

 tk-TM : Turkmen

 tw-01 : Twi

 ug-01 : Uighur

 uk-UA : Ukrainian

 ur-PK : Urdu

 ug-CN : Uyghur

 uz-UZ : Uzbek

 vi-VN : Vietnamese

 vo-01 : Volapük

 wa-BE : Walloon

 cy-GB : Welsh

 wo-01 : Wolof

 xh-ZA : Xhosa

 yi-01 : Yiddish

 yo-NG : Yoruba

 zu-ZA : Zulu

* No 2-letter code at date of publication.

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