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Below is a list of 2 letter codes that are contained in ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 but the language they encode has no relation to the country. Theoretically, country and language codes are orthogonal so a real conflict does not exist, but practically, it could be a source of confusion.
E.g. one sees a subdomain be.example.org, it is unclear whether be refers to Belarusian language or to Belgium. Or one sees uk.example.org, which could refer to Ukrainian language or to the United Kingdom.
alpha-2 | Language | Country |
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ae | Avestan | United Arab Emirates |
af | Afrikaans | Afghanistan |
am | Amharic | Armenia |
ar | Arabic | Argentina |
as | Assamese | American Samoa |
ba | Bashkir | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
be | Byelorussian | Belgium |
bh | Bihari | Bahrain |
bi | Bislama | Burundi |
bn | Bengali | Brunei Darussalam |
br | Breton | Brazil |
bo | Tibetan | Bolivia |
ca | Catalan | Canada |
ch | Chamorro | Switzerland |
co | Corsican | Colombia |
cr | Cree | Costa Rica |
cs | Czech | ex Czechoslovakia, ex Serbia-Montenegro |
cu | Church Slavonic | Cuba |
cy | Welsh | Cyprus |
dz | Dzongkha | Algeria |
et | Estonian | Ethiopia |
ga | Irish | Gabon |
gl | Gallegan | Greenland |
gn | Guarani | Guinea |
gu | Gujarati | Guam |
ie | Interlingue | Ireland |
io | Ido | British Indian Ocean Territory |
km | Khmer | Comoros |
kn | Kannada | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
ky | Kirghiz | Cayman Islands |
la | Latin | Lao People's Democratic Republic |
lb | Luxembourgish | Lebanon |
lu | Luba-Katanga | Luxembourg |
ml | Maltese | Mali |
mo | Moldavian | Macau |
mr | Marathi | Mauritania |
ms | Malay | Montserrat |
my | Burmese | Malaysia |
na | Nauru | Namibia |
ne | Nepali | Niger |
om | Oromo | Oman |
pa | Punjabi language | Panama |
ps | Pushto | Palestinian Territories |
sa | Sanskrit | Saudi Arabia |
sd | Sindhi | Sudan |
sg | Sango | Singapore |
sh | Serbo-Croatian | St. Helena |
si | Singhalese | Slovenia |
sl | Slovenian | Sierra Leone |
sm | Samoan | San Marino |
sn | Shona | Senegal |
st | Sotho, Southern | Sao Tome and Principe |
sv | Swedish | El Salvador |
tg | Tajik | Togo |
tk | Turkmen | Tokelau |
tl | Tagalog | Timor-Leste |
tn | Tswana | Tunisia |
tt | Tatar | Trinidad and Tobago |
tw | Twi | Taiwan |
ug | Uighur | Uganda |
uk | Ukrainian | reserved for United Kingdom, also ccTLD |
vi | Vietnamese | Virgin Islands (USA) |
za | Zhuang | South Africa |
Examples[edit]
- http://my.wikipedia.org - "Note: If you are looking for the Malay language Wikipedia, it is available here. (-> ms)"