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CodeSystem: Languages
Language tags as defined by RFC-5646. The syntax consists of the ISO 639-1 'alpha-2' form of names of languages, often followed by a region subtag from the ISO 3166-1 'alpha-2' country list. These are maintained by the IANA Language Subtag Registry. NOTE: This code set does not cover all languages, whereas ISO 639-2 'alpha-3' covers many more languages of cultural or indigenous interest, but which nevertheless are unlikely to be supported by current software or operating systems. Note that the source Code Set explicitly defines all codes as active, even ones that include 'DEPRECATED' in the display name, because the source Code Set is intended to be a complete list of all language tags that are likely to be used in practice, including deprecated ones.
This Code system is referenced in the definition of the following value sets:
Properties
This code system defines the following properties for its concepts
| Name | Code | URI | Type | Description |
| Status |
status |
http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status |
code |
A code that indicates the status of the concept. Typical values are active, experimental, deprecated, and retired. |
Concepts
This case-sensitive code system https://specifications.openehr.org/fhir/codesystem-languages defines the following codes:
| Code | Display | Status |
| aa |
Afar |
active |
| af |
Afrikaans |
active |
| ak |
Akan |
active |
| sq |
Albanian |
active |
| am |
Amharic |
active |
| ar |
Arabic |
active |
| ar-sa |
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) |
active |
| ar-iq |
Arabic (Iraq) |
active |
| ar-eg |
Arabic (Egypt) |
active |
| ar-ly |
Arabic (Libya) |
active |
| ar-dz |
Arabic (Algeria) |
active |
| ar-ma |
Arabic (Morocco) |
active |
| ar-tn |
Arabic (Tunisia) |
active |
| ar-om |
Arabic (Oman) |
active |
| ar-ye |
Arabic (Yemen) |
active |
| ar-sy |
Arabic (Syria) |
active |
| ar-jo |
Arabic (Jordan) |
active |
| ar-lb |
Arabic (Lebanon) |
active |
| ar-kw |
Arabic (Kuwait) |
active |
| ar-ae |
Arabic (U.A.E.) |
active |
| ar-bh |
Arabic (Bahrain) |
active |
| ar-qa |
Arabic (Qatar) |
active |
| an |
Aragonese |
active |
| hy |
Armenian |
active |
| as |
Assamese |
active |
| av |
Avaric, Avar |
active |
| ay |
Aymara |
active |
| az |
Azerbaijani, Azeri |
active |
| bm |
Bambara |
active |
| ba |
Bashkir |
active |
| eu |
Basque |
active |
| be |
Belarusian |
active |
| bn |
Bengali, Bangla |
active |
| bi |
Bislama |
active |
| bs |
Bosnian |
active |
| br |
Breton |
active |
| bg |
Bulgarian |
active |
| my |
Burmese, Myanmar |
active |
| ca |
Catalan, Valencian |
active |
| ch |
Chamorro |
active |
| ce |
Chechen |
active |
| ny |
Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja |
active |
| zh |
Chinese |
active |
| zh-tw |
Chinese (Taiwan) |
active |
| zh-cn |
Chinese (PRC) |
active |
| zh-hk |
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR) |
active |
| zh-sg |
Chinese (Singapore) |
active |
| zh-mo |
Chinese (Macau) |
active |
| cv |
Chuvash |
active |
| kw |
Cornish |
active |
| co |
Corsican |
active |
| cr |
Cree |
active |
| hr |
Croatian |
active |
| hr-ba |
Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
active |
| cs |
Czech |
active |
| da |
Danish |
active |
| dv |
Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian |
active |
| nl |
Dutch |
active |
| nl-be |
Dutch (Belgium) |
active |
| dz |
Dzongkha |
active |
| en |
English |
active |
| en-us |
English (United States) |
active |
| en-gb |
English (United Kingdom) |
active |
| en-au |
English (Australia) |
active |
| en-ca |
English (Canada) |
active |
| en-nz |
English (New Zealand) |
active |
| en-ie |
English (Ireland) |
active |
| en-za |
English (South Africa) |
active |
| en-jm |
English (Jamaica) |
active |
| en-cb |
English (Caribbean) |
active |
| en-bz |
English (Belize) |
active |
| en-tt |
English (Trinidad and Tobago) |
active |
| en-ph |
English (Republic of the Philippines) |
active |
| en-zw |
English (Zimbabwe) |
active |
| eo |
Esperanto |
active |
| et |
Estonian |
active |
| ee |
Ewe |
active |
| fo |
Faroese |
active |
| fj |
Fijian |
active |
| fi |
Finnish |
active |
| fr |
French |
active |
| fr-be |
French (Belgium) |
active |
| fr-ca |
French (Canada) |
active |
| fr-ch |
French (Switzerland) |
active |
| fr-lu |
French (Luxembourg) |
active |
| fr-mc |
French (Principality of Monaco) |
active |
| fy |
Frisian, Western Frisian |
active |
| ff |
Fulah, Fulani |
active |
| gd |
Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic |
active |
| gd-ie |
Gaelic (Ireland) |
active |
| gl |
Galician |
active |
| lg |
Ganda |
active |
| ka |
Georgian |
active |
| de |
German |
active |
| de-ch |
German (Switzerland) |
active |
| de-at |
German (Austria) |
active |
| de-lu |
German (Luxembourg) |
active |
| de-li |
German (Liechtenstein) |
active |
| el |
Greek |
active |
| kl |
Kalaallisut, Greenlandic |
active |
| gn |
Guarani |
active |
| gu |
Gujarati |
active |
| ht |
Haitian, Haitian Creole |
active |
| ha |
Hausa |
active |
| he |
Hebrew |
active |
| hz |
Herero |
active |
| hi |
Hindi |
active |
| ho |
Hiri Motu, Pidgin Motu |
active |
| hu |
Hungarian |
active |
| is |
Icelandic |
active |
| ig |
Igbo |
active |
| id |
Indonesian |
active |
| iu |
Inuktitut |
active |
| ik |
Inupiaq |
active |
| ga |
Irish |
active |
| it |
Italian |
active |
| it-ch |
Italian (Switzerland) |
active |
| ja |
Japanese |
active |
| jv |
Javanese |
active |
| kn |
Kannada |
active |
| kr |
Kanuri |
active |
| ks |
Kashmiri |
active |
| kk |
Kazakh |
active |
| km |
Central Khmer, Cambodian |
active |
| ki |
Kikuyu, Gikuyu |
active |
| rw |
Kinyarwanda |
active |
| ky |
Kirghiz, Kyrgyz |
active |
| kv |
Komi |
active |
| kg |
Kongo |
active |
| ko |
Korean |
active |
| kj |
Kuanyama, Kwanyama |
active |
| ku |
Kurdish |
active |
| lo |
Lao |
active |
| la |
Latin |
active |
| lv |
Latvian |
active |
| li |
Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish |
active |
| ln |
Lingala |
active |
| lt |
Lithuanian |
active |
| lu |
Luba-Katanga, Luba-Shaba |
active |
| lb |
Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch |
active |
| mk |
Macedonian |
active |
| mg |
Malagasy |
active |
| ms |
Malay |
active |
| ml |
Malayalam |
active |
| mt |
Maltese |
active |
| gv |
Manx |
active |
| mi |
Maori |
active |
| mr |
Marathi |
active |
| mh |
Marshallese |
active |
| mn |
Mongolian |
active |
| na |
Nauru, Nauruan |
active |
| nv |
Navajo, Navaho |
active |
| nd |
North Ndebele |
active |
| nr |
South Ndebele |
active |
| ng |
Ndonga |
active |
| ne |
Nepali |
active |
| nb |
Norwegian Bokmal |
active |
| nn |
Norwegian Nynorsk |
active |
| ii |
Sichuan Yi, Nuosu, Northern Yi, Liangshan Yi |
active |
| oc |
Occitan |
active |
| oj |
Ojibwa, Ojibwe |
active |
| or |
Oriya, Odia |
active |
| om |
Oromo |
active |
| os |
Ossetian, Ossetic |
active |
| ps |
Pashto, Pushto |
active |
| fa |
Persian, Farsi |
active |
| pl |
Polish |
active |
| pt |
Portuguese |
active |
| pt-br |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
active |
| pt-pt |
Portuguese (Portugal) - DEPRECATED |
active |
| pa |
Punjabi, Panjabi |
active |
| qu |
Quechua |
active |
| qu-bo |
Quechua (Bolivia) |
active |
| qu-ec |
Quechua (Ecuador) |
active |
| qu-pe |
Quechua (Peru) |
active |
| ro |
Romanian |
active |
| ro-mo |
Romanian (Moldavia) |
active |
| rm |
Romansh, Rhaeto-Romanic |
active |
| rn |
Rundi, Kirundi |
active |
| ru |
Russian |
active |
| ru-mo |
Russian (Moldavia) |
active |
| se |
Northern Sami |
active |
| sz |
Sami (Lappish) - DEPRECATED |
active |
| sm |
Samoan |
active |
| sg |
Sango |
active |
| sc |
Sardinian |
active |
| sr |
Serbian |
active |
| sr-ba |
Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
active |
| sb |
Serbian - DEPRECATED |
active |
| sn |
Shona |
active |
| sd |
Sindhi |
active |
| si |
Sinhala, Sinhalese |
active |
| sk |
Slovak |
active |
| sl |
Slovenian, Slovene |
active |
| so |
Somali |
active |
| st |
Southern Sotho, Sesotho, Sutu |
active |
| es |
Spanish, Castilian |
active |
| es-mx |
Spanish (Mexico) |
active |
| es-gt |
Spanish (Guatemala) |
active |
| es-cr |
Spanish (Costa Rica) |
active |
| es-pa |
Spanish (Panama) |
active |
| es-do |
Spanish (Dominican Republic) |
active |
| es-ve |
Spanish (Venezuela) |
active |
| es-co |
Spanish (Colombia) |
active |
| es-pe |
Spanish (Peru) |
active |
| es-ar |
Spanish (Argentina) |
active |
| es-ec |
Spanish (Ecuador) |
active |
| es-cl |
Spanish (Chile) |
active |
| es-uy |
Spanish (Uruguay) |
active |
| es-py |
Spanish (Paraguay) |
active |
| es-bo |
Spanish (Bolivia) |
active |
| es-sv |
Spanish (El Salvador) |
active |
| es-hn |
Spanish (Honduras) |
active |
| es-ni |
Spanish (Nicaragua) |
active |
| es-pr |
Spanish (Puerto Rico) |
active |
| su |
Sundanese |
active |
| sx |
Sutu - DEPRECATED |
active |
| sw |
Swahili |
active |
| ss |
Swati, Swazi |
active |
| sv |
Swedish |
active |
| sv-fi |
Swedish (Finland) |
active |
| tl |
Tagalog |
active |
| ty |
Tahitian |
active |
| tg |
Tajik |
active |
| ta |
Tamil |
active |
| tt |
Tatar |
active |
| te |
Telugu |
active |
| th |
Thai |
active |
| bo |
Tibetan |
active |
| ti |
Tigrinya |
active |
| to |
Tonga, Tongan |
active |
| ts |
Tsonga |
active |
| tn |
Tswana |
active |
| tr |
Turkish |
active |
| tk |
Turkmen |
active |
| tw |
Twi |
active |
| ug |
Uighur, Uyghur |
active |
| uk |
Ukrainian |
active |
| ur |
Urdu |
active |
| uz |
Uzbek |
active |
| ve |
Venda |
active |
| vi |
Vietnamese |
active |
| wa |
Walloon |
active |
| cy |
Welsh |
active |
| cy-gb |
Welsh (United Kingdom) |
active |
| cy-ar |
Welsh (Argentina) |
active |
| wo |
Wolof |
active |
| xh |
Xhosa |
active |
| yi |
Yiddish |
active |
| ji |
Yiddish - DEPRECATED |
active |
| yo |
Yoruba |
active |
| za |
Zhuang, Chuang |
active |
| zu |
Zulu |
active |
Description of the above table(s).