Revised 19 July 1993.
The following list includes the USMARC language codes, listed alphabetically by code, followed by language. Tracings or references for variant forms of the languages are not included.
ace Achinese ach Acoli ada Adangme afa Afro-Asiatic (Other) afh Afrihili (Artificial language) afr Afrikaans ajm Aljamia aka Akan akk Akkadian alb Albanian ale Aleut alg Algonquian languages amh Amharic ang English, Old (ca. 450-1100) apa Apache languages ara Arabic arc Aramaic arm Armenian arn Araucanian arp Arapaho art Artificial (Other) arw Arawak asm Assamese ath Athapascan languages ava Avaric ave Avestan awa Awadhi aym Aymara aze Azerbaijani bad Banda bai Bamileke languages bak Bashkir bal Baluchi bam Bambara ban Balinese baq Basque bas Basa bat Baltic (Other) bej Beja bel Byelorussian bem Bemba ben Bengali ber Berber languages bho Bhojpuri bik Bikol bin Bini bla Siksika bra Braj bre Breton bug Buginese bul Bulgarian bur Burmese cad Caddo cai Central American Indian (Other) cam Khmer car Carib cat Catalan cau Caucasian (Other) ceb Cebuano cel Celtic languages cha Chamorro chb Chibcha che Chechen chg Chagatai chi Chinese chn Chinook jargon cho Choctaw chr Cherokee chu Church Slavic chv Chuvash chy Cheyenne cop Coptic cor Cornish cpe Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other) cpf Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other) cpp Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other) cre Cree crp Creoles and Pidgins (Other) cus Cushitic (Other) cze Czech dak Dakota dan Danish del Delaware din Dinka doi Dogri dra Dravidian (Other) dua Duala dum Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) dut Dutch dyu Dyula efi Efik egy Egyptian eka Ekajuk elx Elamite eng English enm English, Middle (1100-1500) esk Eskimo esp Esperanto est Estonian eth Ethiopic ewe Ewe ewo Ewondo fan Fang far Faroese fat Fanti fij Fijian fin Finnish fiu Finno-Ugrian (Other) fon Fon fre French fri Friesian frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) fro French, Old (ca. 842-1400) ful Fula gaa Gū gae Gaelic (Scots) gag Gallegan gal Oromo gay Gayo gem Germanic (Other) geo Georgian ger German gil Gilbertese gmh German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) goh German, Old High (ca. 750-1050) gon Gondi got Gothic grb Grebo grc Greek, Ancient (to 1453) gre Greek, Modern (1453- ) gua Guarani guj Gujarati hai Haida hau Hausa haw Hawaiian heb Hebrew her Herero hil Hiligaynon him Himachali hin Hindi hmo Hiri Motu hun Hungarian hup Hupa iba Iban ibo Igbo ice Icelandic ijo Ijo ilo Iloko inc Indic (Other) ind Indonesian ine Indo-European (Other) int Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) ira Iranian (Other) iri Irish iro Iroquoian languages ita Italian jav Javanese jpn Japanese jpr Judeo-Persian jrb Judeo-Arabic kaa Kara-Kalpak kab Kabyle kac Kachin kam Kamba kan Kannada kar Karen kas Kashmiri kau Kanuri kaw Kawi kaz Kazakh kha Khasi khi Khoisan (Other) kho Khotanese kik Kikuyu kin Kinyarwanda kir Kirghiz kok Konkani kon Kongo kor Korean kpe Kpelle kro Kru kru Kurukh kua Kuanyama kur Kurdish kus Kusaie kut Kutenai lad Ladino lah Lahnd lam Lamba lan Langue d'oc (post-1500) lao Lao lap Lapp lat Latin lav Latvian lin Lingala lit Lithuanian lol Mongo loz Lozi lub Luba-Katanga lug Ganda lui Luiseno lun Lunda luo Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) mac Macedonian mad Madurese mag Magahi mah Marshall mai Maithili mak Makasar mal Malayalam man Mandingo mao Maori map Austronesian (Other) mar Marathi mas Masai max Manx may Malay men Mende mic Micmac min Minangkabau mis Miscellaneous (Other) mkh Mon-Khmer (Other) mla Malagasy mlt Maltese mni Manipuri mno Manobo languages moh Mohawk mol Moldavian mon Mongolian mos Mossi mul Multiple languages mun Munda (Other) mus Creek mwr Marwari myn Mayan languages nah Aztec nai North American Indian (Other) nav Navajo nde Ndebele (Zimbabwe) ndo Ndonga nep Nepali new Newari nic Niger-Kordofanian (Other) niu Niuean nor Norwegian nso Northern Sotho nub Nubian languages nya Nyanja nym Nyamwezi nyn Nyankole nyo Nyoro nzi Nzima oji Ojibwa ori Oriya osa Osage oss Ossetic ota Turkish, Ottoman oto Otomian languages paa Papuan-Australian (Other) pag Pangasinan pal Pahlavi pam Pampanga pan Panjabi pap Papiamento pau Palauan peo Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.) per Persian pli Pali pol Polish pon Ponape por Portuguese pra Prakrit languages pro Provencal, Old (to 1500) pus Pushto que Quechua raj Rajasthani rar Rarotongan roa Romance (Other) roh Raeto-Romance rom Romany rum Romanian run Rundi rus Russian sad Sandawe sag Sango sai South American Indian (Other) sal Salishan languages sam Samaritan Aramaic san Sanskrit sao Samoan scc Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) sco Scots scr Serbo-Croatian (Roman) sel Selkup sem Semitic (Other) shn Shan sho Shona sid Sidamo sio Siouan languages sit Sino-Tibetan (Other) sla Slavic (Other) slo Slovak slv Slovenian snd Sindhi snh Sinhalese sog Sogdian som Somali son Songhai spa Spanish srr Serer ssa Nilo-Saharan (Other) sso Sotho suk Sukuma sun Sundanese sus Susu sux Sumerian swa Swahili swe Swedish swz Swazi syr Syriac tag Tagalog tah Tahitian taj Tajik tam Tamil tar Tatar tel Telugu tem Timne ter Tereno tha Thai tib Tibetan tig Tigre tir Tigrinya tiv Tivi tli Tlingit tog Tonga (Nyasa) ton Tonga (Tonga Islands) tru Truk tsi Tsimshian tso Tsonga tsw Tswana tuk Turkmen tum Tumbuka tur Turkish tut Altaic (Other) twi Twi uga Ugaritic uig Uighur ukr Ukrainian umb Umbundu und Undetermined urd Urdu uzb Uzbek vai Vai ven Venda vie Vietnamese vot Votic wak Wakashan languages wal Walamo war Waray was Washo wel Welsh wen Sorbian languages wol Wolof xho Xhosa yao Yao yap Yap yid Yiddish yor Yoruba zap Zapotec zen Zenaga zul Zulu zun Zuni
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