Lifeline Language Services
Language codes for suppliers

Help us to find (and use) you!

For historical reasons our database uses unusual 2-character language codes. These are listed below for you to add to your Supplier Questionnaire.

Obviously to find a supplier for a project we need to know which codes apply, so please take care to enter the right codes!

EXAMPLE: You translate Amharic and Tigrinya into English, but only translate from English to Tigrinya. The entries on your Supplier Questionnaire would then be:

Source              ah ty en            (codes for the three languages you translate from)

Target Lang     en ty                  (codes for the two languages you translate to)

Codes are:

acAcholi
afAfricaans
auAkuapim
alAlbanian
anAlgerian
ahAmharic
zzAny Language
arArabic
aiAramaic
amArmenian
atAshanti
asAssamese
ayAssyrian
aeAustralian English
avAvar
azAzerbaijani
baBalinese
blBaluchi
bcBambara
bqBasque
bnBelorussian
bbBemba
beBengali
bdBerber
btBete
bhBhutani
bfBihari
boBosnian
bxBraille
byBravanese
brBrazilian Portuguese
buBulgarian
bmBurmese
cmCambodian
cnCantonese
cbCarib
caCatalan
ctChechen
cwChewa
cuChiluba
chChinese (Traditional)
csChinese Simplified
cjChinyanja
ckCook Island Maori
coCornish
crCroatian
czCzech
dmDamara
daDanish
drDari
dbDebelle
dkDinka
diDioula
dgDogri
dlDuala
duDutch
edEdo
efEfik
emEmbu
enEnglish
usEnglish(US)
eoEno
erEritrean
epEsperanto
esEstonian
ewEwe
ftFanti
foFaroese
faFarsi
fjFijian
fpFilipino
fiFinnish
flFlemish
fwFon
frFrench
fcFrench Canadian
fsFrisian
fkFukienese
fnFulani
fuFulfudega
gaGa
gcGalician
gbGanda
goGeorgian
geGerman
ghGoran
gkGorkhali
grGreek
guGujarati
gnGurani
hcHaitian Creole
haHakka
hsHausa
hyHaya
heHebrew
hiHindi
hdHindko
hgH’mong
huHungarian
ibIbibio
icIcelandic
ilIgala
ioIgbo
iaIlocano
inIndonesian
00Interpreting equipment
igIrish Gaelic
itItalian
jaJapanese
kcKachhi
khKachin
kbKamba
kaKannada
kmKashmiri
kzKazakh
kxKhmer
kgKibembe
keKifulero
kfKikongo
kiKikuyu
kyKinyarwanda
kgKirgiz
knKirundi
kwKiswahili
ktKituba
kkKonkani
koKorean
kvKosovan
kpKpelle
kuKrio
krKriul
kdKurdish – Kurdmanji
ksKurdish – Sorani
biKurdish Badini
akl
ldLaadi
loLao
ltLatin
lsLatin American Spanish
laLatvian
lnLingala
xiLip speaking
liLithuanian
luLuganda
llLulua
lbLuo
lxLuxembourgeois
mcMacedonian
mgMalagasy
maMalay
myMalayalam
mvMaldivian
mkMalinke
mlMaltese
mnMandarin
mbMande
miMandingo
mxManx
mhMaori
mrMarathi
mwMarwari
msMasai
mmMashi
mtMatabele
mfMauritian Creole
meMende
maMina
mpMirpuri
mzMizo
mdMoldovan
moMongolian
muMuganda
nmNama
ndNdebele
neNepali
nrNewari
nsNorthern Sotho
noNorwegian
nyNynorsk
orOriya
ooOromo
ojOtjiherero (Otjimbanderu)
pxPahari
paPallantyping
ptPashto
pePersian
piPidgin English
poPolish
prPortuguese
pkPrakrit
pupunjabi
hpPunjabi (Indian)
ppPunjabi (Pakistani)
pgPutonghua
quQuechua
qiQuiche
rjRajasthani
rxRomani
roRomanian
rmRomansch
rkRukiga
rnRunankor
rdRundi
ruRussian
rwRwanda
smSamoan
saSanskrit
srSaraiki
sgScottish Gaelic
sfSenegalese
seSerbian
ssSesotho
stSetswana
syShona
siSign Language
scSign Supported English
sdSindhi
snSinghalese
sjSiswali
skSlovak
slSlovenian
soSomali
sxSouthern Shona
spSpanish
shSwahili
szSwazi
swSwedish
sbSylheti
tcTaccow
tdTadzhik
tgTagalog
ttTaiwanese
tjTajik
taTamil
tbTatar
tnTecochin
tlTelugu
tmTemne
xtTetum
thThai
tiTibetan
trTigre
tyTigrinya
tpTok Pisin
tqTokelau
toTonga
xvTshivenda
tsTsonga
twTswana
tzTuareg
txTulu
tkTumbuka
tuTurkish
teTurkmen
tvTuvaluan
tfTwi
uiUighur
ukUkrainian
urUrdu
uhUrhobo
uzUzbek
veVenda
viVietnamese
vsVisayan
weWelsh
woWolof
wuWu
xhXhosa
xiXitsonga
yaYaunde
yeYemeni
yiYiddish
yoYoruba
zgZaghawa
zaZande
zuZulu
znZuni