Localization Checklist – Part 4
How to Use Proper Language Nomenclature and Codification
This is part of our localization checklist. You can use it as a quick reference for the main aspects of a localization project (part 4 of 4).
Check other parts:
- Part 1 – Localizing Numbers, Addresses, Currency, Dates & Graphics
- Part 2 – Choosing Language Variants
- Part 3 – Handling Cultural Aspects and Local Regulations
Top 100 languages according to observed demand over the last 10 years of business at The Translation Company Group.
| Language | ISO 639-1 | All Names |
| Afrikaans | AF | Afrikaans |
| Albanian | SQ | Albanian |
| Arabic | AR | Arabic |
| Armenian | HY | Armenian |
| Azerbaijani | AZ | Azerbaijani |
| Basque | EU | Basque |
| Belarusian | BE | Belarusian |
| Bengali | BN | Bengali |
| Bokmål, Norwegian | NB | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
| Bosnian | BS | Bosnian |
| Bulgarian | BG | Bulgarian |
| Burmese | MY | Burmese |
| Castilian | ES | Spanish; Castilian |
| Catalan | CA | Catalan; Valencian |
| Chechen | CE | Chechen |
| Chewa | NY | Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja |
| Chinese | ZH | Chinese |
| Croatian | HR | Croatian |
| Czech | CS | Czech |
| Danish | DA | Danish |
| Dutch | NL | Dutch; Flemish |
| English | EN | English |
| Estonian | ET | Estonian |
| Finnish | FI | Finnish |
| Flemish | NL | Dutch; Flemish |
| French | FR | French |
| Georgian | KA | Georgian |
| German | DE | German |
| Greek, Modern (1453-) | EL | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
| Greenlandic | KL | Kalaallisut; Greenlandic |
| Guarani | GN | Guarani |
| Gujarati | GU | Gujarati |
| Haitian | HT | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
| Haitian Creole | HT | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
| Hawaiian | Hawaiian | |
| Hebrew | HE | Hebrew |
| Hindi | HI | Hindi |
| Hungarian | HU | Hungarian |
| Icelandic | IS | Icelandic |
| Indonesian | ID | Indonesian |
| Italian | IT | Italian |
| Japanese | JA | Japanese |
| Javanese | JV | Javanese |
| Kannada | KN | Kannada |
| Kashmiri | KS | Kashmiri |
| Kongo | KG | Kongo |
| Korean | KO | Korean |
| Kurdish | KU | Kurdish |
| Lao | LO | Lao |
| Latin | LA | Latin |
| Latvian | LV | Latvian |
| Luxembourgish | LB | Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch |
| Macedonian | MK | Macedonian |
| Malay | MS | Malay |
| Malayalam | ML | Malayalam |
| Maltese | MT | Maltese |
| Marathi | MR | Marathi |
| Moldavian | RO | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
| Moldovan | RO | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
| Mongolian | MN | Mongolian |
| Navaho | NV | Navajo; Navaho |
| Navajo | NV | Navajo; Navaho |
| Nepali | NE | Nepali |
| Norwegian | NO | Norwegian |
| Norwegian Bokmål | NB | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
| Persian | FA | Persian |
| Polish | PL | Polish |
| Portuguese | PT | Portuguese |
| Punjabi | PA | Panjabi; Punjabi |
| Pushto | PS | Pushto; Pashto |
| Romanian | RO | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
| Russian | RU | Russian |
| Serbian | SR | Serbian |
| Slovak | SK | Slovak |
| Slovenian | SL | Slovenian |
| Spanish | ES | Spanish; Castilian |
| Swahili | SW | Swahili |
| Swati | SS | Swati |
| Swedish | SV | Swedish |
| Tagalog | TL | Tagalog |
| Tahitian | TY | Tahitian |
| Tajik | TG | Tajik |
| Tamil | TA | Tamil |
| Tatar | TT | Tatar |
| Telugu | TE | Telugu |
| Thai | TH | Thai |
| Tibetan | BO | Tibetan |
| Tonga (Tonga Islands) | TO | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
| Uighur | UG | Uighur; Uyghur |
| Ukrainian | UK | Ukrainian |
| Urdu | UR | Urdu |
| Uzbek | UZ | Uzbek |
| Valencian | CA | Catalan; Valencian |
| Vietnamese | VI | Vietnamese |
| Welsh | CY | Welsh |
| Xhosa | XH | Xhosa |
| Yiddish | YI | Yiddish |
| Zhuang | ZA | Zhuang; Chuang |
| Zulu | ZU | Zulu |
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