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:
| ac | Acholi | |
| af | Africaans | |
| au | Akuapim | |
| al | Albanian | |
| an | Algerian | |
| ah | Amharic | |
| zz | Any Language | |
| ar | Arabic | |
| ai | Aramaic | |
| am | Armenian | |
| at | Ashanti | |
| as | Assamese | |
| ay | Assyrian | |
| ae | Australian English | |
| av | Avar | |
| az | Azerbaijani | |
| ba | Balinese | |
| bl | Baluchi | |
| bc | Bambara | |
| bq | Basque | |
| bn | Belorussian | |
| bb | Bemba | |
| be | Bengali | |
| bd | Berber | |
| bt | Bete | |
| bh | Bhutani | |
| bf | Bihari | |
| bo | Bosnian | |
| bx | Braille | |
| by | Bravanese | |
| br | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| bu | Bulgarian | |
| bm | Burmese | |
| cm | Cambodian | |
| cn | Cantonese | |
| cb | Carib | |
| ca | Catalan | |
| ct | Chechen | |
| cw | Chewa | |
| cu | Chiluba | |
| ch | Chinese (Traditional) | |
| cs | Chinese Simplified | |
| cj | Chinyanja | |
| ck | Cook Island Maori | |
| co | Cornish | |
| cr | Croatian | |
| cz | Czech | |
| dm | Damara | |
| da | Danish | |
| dr | Dari | |
| db | Debelle | |
| dk | Dinka | |
| di | Dioula | |
| dg | Dogri | |
| dl | Duala | |
| du | Dutch | |
| ed | Edo | |
| ef | Efik | |
| em | Embu | |
| en | English | |
| us | English(US) | |
| eo | Eno | |
| er | Eritrean | |
| ep | Esperanto | |
| es | Estonian | |
| ew | Ewe | |
| ft | Fanti | |
| fo | Faroese | |
| fa | Farsi | |
| fj | Fijian | |
| fp | Filipino | |
| fi | Finnish | |
| fl | Flemish | |
| fw | Fon | |
| fr | French | |
| fc | French Canadian | |
| fs | Frisian | |
| fk | Fukienese | |
| fn | Fulani | |
| fu | Fulfudega | |
| ga | Ga | |
| gc | Galician | |
| gb | Ganda | |
| go | Georgian | |
| ge | German | |
| gh | Goran | |
| gk | Gorkhali | |
| gr | Greek | |
| gu | Gujarati | |
| gn | Gurani | |
| hc | Haitian Creole | |
| ha | Hakka | |
| hs | Hausa | |
| hy | Haya | |
| he | Hebrew | |
| hi | Hindi | |
| hd | Hindko | |
| hg | H’mong | |
| hu | Hungarian | |
| ib | Ibibio | |
| ic | Icelandic | |
| il | Igala | |
| io | Igbo | |
| ia | Ilocano | |
| in | Indonesian | |
| 00 | Interpreting equipment | |
| ig | Irish Gaelic | |
| it | Italian | |
| ja | Japanese | |
| kc | Kachhi | |
| kh | Kachin | |
| kb | Kamba | |
| ka | Kannada | |
| km | Kashmiri | |
| kz | Kazakh | |
| kx | Khmer | |
| kg | Kibembe | |
| ke | Kifulero | |
| kf | Kikongo | |
| ki | Kikuyu | |
| ky | Kinyarwanda | |
| kg | Kirgiz | |
| kn | Kirundi | |
| kw | Kiswahili | |
| kt | Kituba | |
| kk | Konkani | |
| ko | Korean | |
| kv | Kosovan | |
| kp | Kpelle | |
| ku | Krio | |
| kr | Kriul | |
| kd | Kurdish – Kurdmanji | |
| ks | Kurdish – Sorani | |
| bi | Kurdish Badini | |
| ak | l | |
| ld | Laadi | |
| lo | Lao | |
| lt | Latin | |
| ls | Latin American Spanish | |
| la | Latvian | |
| ln | Lingala | |
| xi | Lip speaking | |
| li | Lithuanian | |
| lu | Luganda | |
| ll | Lulua | |
| lb | Luo | |
| lx | Luxembourgeois | |
| mc | Macedonian | |
| mg | Malagasy | |
| ma | Malay | |
| my | Malayalam | |
| mv | Maldivian | |
| mk | Malinke | |
| ml | Maltese | |
| mn | Mandarin | |
| mb | Mande | |
| mi | Mandingo | |
| mx | Manx | |
| mh | Maori | |
| mr | Marathi | |
| mw | Marwari | |
| ms | Masai | |
| mm | Mashi | |
| mt | Matabele | |
| mf | Mauritian Creole | |
| me | Mende | |
| ma | Mina | |
| mp | Mirpuri | |
| mz | Mizo | |
| md | Moldovan | |
| mo | Mongolian | |
| mu | Muganda | |
| nm | Nama | |
| nd | Ndebele | |
| ne | Nepali | |
| nr | Newari | |
| ns | Northern Sotho | |
| no | Norwegian | |
| ny | Nynorsk | |
| or | Oriya | |
| oo | Oromo | |
| oj | Otjiherero (Otjimbanderu) | |
| px | Pahari | |
| pa | Pallantyping | |
| pt | Pashto | |
| pe | Persian | |
| pi | Pidgin English | |
| po | Polish | |
| pr | Portuguese | |
| pk | Prakrit | |
| pu | punjabi | |
| hp | Punjabi (Indian) | |
| pp | Punjabi (Pakistani) | |
| pg | Putonghua | |
| qu | Quechua | |
| qi | Quiche | |
| rj | Rajasthani | |
| rx | Romani | |
| ro | Romanian | |
| rm | Romansch | |
| rk | Rukiga | |
| rn | Runankor | |
| rd | Rundi | |
| ru | Russian | |
| rw | Rwanda | |
| sm | Samoan | |
| sa | Sanskrit | |
| sr | Saraiki | |
| sg | Scottish Gaelic | |
| sf | Senegalese | |
| se | Serbian | |
| ss | Sesotho | |
| st | Setswana | |
| sy | Shona | |
| si | Sign Language | |
| sc | Sign Supported English | |
| sd | Sindhi | |
| sn | Singhalese | |
| sj | Siswali | |
| sk | Slovak | |
| sl | Slovenian | |
| so | Somali | |
| sx | Southern Shona | |
| sp | Spanish | |
| sh | Swahili | |
| sz | Swazi | |
| sw | Swedish | |
| sb | Sylheti | |
| tc | Taccow | |
| td | Tadzhik | |
| tg | Tagalog | |
| tt | Taiwanese | |
| tj | Tajik | |
| ta | Tamil | |
| tb | Tatar | |
| tn | Tecochin | |
| tl | Telugu | |
| tm | Temne | |
| xt | Tetum | |
| th | Thai | |
| ti | Tibetan | |
| tr | Tigre | |
| ty | Tigrinya | |
| tp | Tok Pisin | |
| tq | Tokelau | |
| to | Tonga | |
| xv | Tshivenda | |
| ts | Tsonga | |
| tw | Tswana | |
| tz | Tuareg | |
| tx | Tulu | |
| tk | Tumbuka | |
| tu | Turkish | |
| te | Turkmen | |
| tv | Tuvaluan | |
| tf | Twi | |
| ui | Uighur | |
| uk | Ukrainian | |
| ur | Urdu | |
| uh | Urhobo | |
| uz | Uzbek | |
| ve | Venda | |
| vi | Vietnamese | |
| vs | Visayan | |
| we | Welsh | |
| wo | Wolof | |
| wu | Wu | |
| xh | Xhosa | |
| xi | Xitsonga | |
| ya | Yaunde | |
| ye | Yemeni | |
| yi | Yiddish | |
| yo | Yoruba | |
| zg | Zaghawa | |
| za | Zande | |
| zu | Zulu | |
| zn | Zuni | |