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USMARC LANGUAGE CODES


The following list includes the USMARC language codes -- listed alphabetically by code -- that may be used to limit searches in the Library Catalog to works written IN a specific language. For example, to locate books on the subject of phonology written in Polish, you could enter keyword search: k=phonology and pol.lng..

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 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    Gß
 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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