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Language and Script Codes

To refer to languages, Language Weaver Edge employs a proprietary 3-letter language code system that roughly follows the ISO 639 standards for the majority of languages, with custom codes invented for the rest. For better compatibility with other products, the language detection API also returns IETF language tags in accordance with the BCP 47 standard.

Name Edge 3-Letter Code IETF Language Tag
Afrikaans afr af
Albanian alb sq
Amharic amh am
Arabic ara ar
Arabic (Arabizi) arz ar-arabizi
Armenian arm hy
Azerbaijani aze az
Basque baq eu
Belarusian bel be
Bengali ben bn
Bihari bih bh
Bosnian bos bs
Bulgarian bul bg
Burmese bur my
Catalan cat ca
Cebuano ceb ceb
Cherokee chr chr
Chinese (Simplified) chi zh-Hans
Chinese (Traditional) cht zh-Hant
Croatian hrv hr
Czech cze cs
Danish dan da
Dari fad prs-AF
Dutch dut nl
English eng en
English (United Kingdom) ene en-GB
Estonian est et
Finnish fin fi
French fra fr
French (Canadian) frc fr-CA
Galician glg gl
Ganda lug lg
Georgian geo ka
German ger de
Greek gre el
Gujarati guj gu
Hausa hau ha
Hebrew heb he
Hindi hin hi
Hmong hmn hmn
Hungarian hun hu
Icelandic ice is
Indonesian ind id
Inuktitut iku iu
Irish gle ga
Italian ita it
Japanese jpn ja
Javanese jav jv
Kannada kan kn
Khmer khm km
Kinyarwanda kin rw
Korean kor ko
Kurdish kur ku
Latvian lav lv
Limbu lif lif
Lithuanian lit lt
Macedonian mac mk
Malay may ms
Malayalam mal ml
Maltese mlt mt
Marathi mar mr
Nepali nep ne
Norwegian nor no
Oriya ori or
Ossetian oss os
Pashto pus ps
Persian per fa
Polish pol pl
Portuguese por pt
Portuguese (Brazil) ptb pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal) ptp pt-PT
Romanian rum ro
Russian rus ru
Serbian srp sr
Slovak slo sk
Slovenian slv sl
Somali som so
Spanish spa es
Sundanese sun su
Swahili swa sw
Swedish swe sv
Syriac syr syr
Tagalog tgl tl
Tajik tgk tg
Tamil tam ta
Telugu tel te
Thai tha th
Turkish tur tr
Ukrainian ukr uk
Urdu urd ur
Uzbek uzb uz
Vietnamese vie vi
Welsh wel cy
Yiddish yid yi

To refer to writing scripts, Language Weaver Edge follows the 4-letter script code system defined by ISO 15924.

Name ISO-15924 Code
Afaka Afak
Ahom Ahom
Anatolian Hieroglyphs Hluw
Arabic Arab
Armenian Armn
Avestan Avst
Balinese Bali
Bamum Bamu
Bassa Vah Bass
Batak Batk
Bengali Beng
Blissymbols Blis
Book Pahlavi Phlv
Bopomofo Bopo
Brahmi Brah
Braille Brai
Buginese Bugi
Buhid Buhd
Canadian Aboriginal Cans
Carian Cari
Caucasian Albanian Aghb
Chakma Cakm
Cham Cham
Cherokee Cher
Cirth Cirt
Code for Unwritten Documents Zxxx
Common Zyyy
Coptic Copt
Cuneiform Xsux
Cypriot Cprt
Cyrillic Cyrl
Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic) Cyrs
Deseret Dsrt
Devanagari Deva
Duployan Dupl
Egyptian Demotic Egyd
Egyptian Hieratic Egyh
Egyptian Hieroglyphs Egyp
Elbasan Elba
Ethiopic Ethi
Georgian Geok
Georgian Geor
Glagolitic Glag
Gothic Goth
Grantha Gran
Greek Grek
Gujarati Gujr
Gurmukhi Guru
Han Hani
Han (Simplified) Hans
Han (Traditional) Hant
Hangul Hang
Hanunoo Hano
Hatran Hatr
Hebrew Hebr
Hiragana Hira
Imperial Aramaic Armi
Indus (Harappan) Inds
Inherited Zinh
Inscriptional Pahlavi Phli
Inscriptional Parthian Prti
Invalid Qaai
Japanese Jpan
Javanese Java
Jurchen Jurc
Kaithi Kthi
Kannada Knda
Katakana Kana
Kayah Li Kali
Kharoshthi Khar
Khmer Khmr
Khojki Khoj
Khudawadi Sind
Korean Kore
Kpelle Kpel
Lao Laoo
Latin Latn
Latin (Fraktur) Latf
Latin (Gaelic) Latg
Lepcha Lepc
Limbu Limb
Linear A Lina
Linear B Linb
Lisu Lisu
Loma Loma
Lycian Lyci
Lydian Lydi
Mahajani Mahj
Malayalam Mlym
Mandaic Mand
Manichaean Mani
Mathematical Notation Zmth
Mayan Hieroglyphs Maya
Meetei Mayek Mtei
Mende Kikakui Mend
Meroitic Cursive Merc
Meroitic Hieroglyphs Mero
Miao Plrd
Modi Modi
Mongolian Mong
Moon Moon
Mro Mroo
Multani Mult
Myanmar Mymr
Nabataean Nbat
Nakhi Geba Nkgb
New Tai Lue Talu
Nko Nkoo
Nüshu Nshu
Ogham Ogam
Ol Chiki Olck
Old Hungarian Hung
Old Italic Ital
Old North Arabian Narb
Old Permic Perm
Old Persian Xpeo
Old South Arabian Sarb
Old Turkic Orkh
Oriya Orya
Osmanya Osma
Pahawh Hmong Hmng
Palmyrene Palm
Pau Cin Hau Pauc
Phags Pa Phag
Phoenician Phnx
Psalter Pahlavi Phlp
Rejang Rjng
Rongorongo Roro
Runic Runr
Samaritan Samr
Sarati Sara
Saurashtra Saur
Sharada Shrd
Shavian Shaw
Siddham Sidd
SignWriting Sgnw
Sinhala Sinh
Sora Sompeng Sora
Sundanese Sund
Syloti Nagri Sylo
Symbols Zsym
Syriac Syrc
Syriac (Eastern) Syrn
Syriac (Estrangelo) Syre
Syriac (Western) Syrj
Tagalog Tglg
Tagbanwa Tagb
Tai Le Tale
Tai Tham Lana
Tai Viet Tavt
Takri Takr
Tamil Taml
Tangut Tang
Telugu Telu
Tengwar Teng
Thaana Thaa
Thai Thai
Tibetan Tibt
Tifinagh Tfng
Tirhuta Tirh
Ugaritic Ugar
Unknown Zzzz
Vai Vaii
Visible Speech Visp
Warang Citi Wara
Woleai Wole
Yi Yiii
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