HL7 Terminology (THO)
7.0.0 - publication
HL7 Terminology (THO)
7.0.0 - publication
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This value set defines a set of codes for the representation of the names of languages. It uses the list of ISO 639-2 concepts using the ISO 639-1 2-digit code for a concept where possible and the 3-digit terminological code where there is no 2-digit code.
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Last updated: 2020-02-24 12:41:39+1100
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| aa | Afar |
| ab | Abkhazian |
| ace | Achinese |
| ach | Acoli |
| ada | Adangme |
| ady | Adyghe; Adygei |
| ae | Avestan |
| af | Afrikaans |
| afa | Afro-Asiatic languages |
| afh | Afrihili |
| ain | Ainu |
| ak | Akan |
| akk | Akkadian |
| ale | Aleut |
| alg | Algonquian languages |
| alt | Southern Altai |
| am | Amharic |
| an | Aragonese |
| ang | English, Old (ca.450-1100) |
| anp | Angika |
| apa | Apache languages |
| ar | Arabic |
| arc | Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) |
| arn | Mapudungun; Mapuche |
| arp | Arapaho |
| art | Artificial languages |
| arw | Arawak |
| as | Assamese |
| ast | Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese |
| ath | Athapascan languages |
| aus | Australian languages |
| av | Avaric |
| awa | Awadhi |
| ay | Aymara |
| az | Azerbaijani |
| ba | Bashkir |
| bad | Banda languages |
| bai | Bamileke languages |
| bal | Baluchi |
| ban | Balinese |
| bas | Basa |
| bat | Baltic languages |
| be | Belarusian |
| bej | Beja; Bedawiyet |
| bem | Bemba |
| ber | Berber languages |
| bg | Bulgarian |
| bho | Bhojpuri |
| bi | Bislama |
| bik | Bikol |
| bin | Bini; Edo |
| bla | Siksika |
| bm | Bambara |
| bn | Bengali |
| bnt | Bantu languages |
| bo | Tibetan |
| br | Breton |
| bra | Braj |
| bs | Bosnian |
| btk | Batak languages |
| bua | Buriat |
| bug | Buginese |
| byn | Blin; Bilin |
| ca | Catalan; Valencian |
| cad | Caddo |
| cai | Central American Indian languages |
| car | Galibi Carib |
| cau | Caucasian languages |
| ce | Chechen |
| ceb | Cebuano |
| cel | Celtic languages |
| ch | Chamorro |
| chb | Chibcha |
| chg | Chagatai |
| chk | Chuukese |
| chm | Mari |
| chn | Chinook jargon |
| cho | Choctaw |
| chp | Chipewyan; Dene Suline |
| chr | Cherokee |
| chy | Cheyenne |
| cmc | Chamic languages |
| cnr | Montenegrin |
| co | Corsican |
| cop | Coptic |
| cpe | Creoles and pidgins, English based |
| cpf | Creoles and pidgins, French-based |
| cpp | Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based |
| cr | Cree |
| crh | Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish |
| crp | Creoles and pidgins |
| cs | Czech |
| csb | Kashubian |
| cu | Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic |
| cus | Cushitic languages |
| cv | Chuvash |
| cy | Welsh |
| da | Danish |
| dak | Dakota |
| dar | Dargwa |
| day | Land Dayak languages |
| de | German |
| del | Delaware |
| den | Slave (Athapascan) |
| dgr | Tlicho; Dogrib |
| din | Dinka |
| doi | Dogri |
| dra | Dravidian languages |
| dsb | Lower Sorbian |
| dua | Duala |
| dum | Dutch, Middle (ca.1050-1350) |
| dv | Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian |
| dyu | Dyula |
| dz | Dzongkha |
| ee | Ewe |
| efi | Efik |
| egy | Egyptian (Ancient) |
| eka | Ekajuk |
| el | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
| elx | Elamite |
| en | English |
| enm | English, Middle (1100-1500) |
| eo | Esperanto |
| es | Spanish; Castilian |
| et | Estonian |
| eu | Basque |
| ewo | Ewondo |
| fa | Persian |
| fan | Fang |
| fat | Fanti |
| ff | Fulah |
| fi | Finnish |
| fil | Filipino; Pilipino |
| fiu | Finno-Ugrian languages |
| fj | Fijian |
| fo | Faroese |
| fon | Fon |
| fr | French |
| frm | French, Middle (ca.1400-1600) |
| fro | French, Old (842-ca.1400) |
| frr | Northern Frisian |
| frs | Eastern Frisian |
| fur | Friulian |
| fy | Western Frisian |
| ga | Irish |
| gaa | Ga |
| gay | Gayo |
| gba | Gbaya |
| gd | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic |
| gem | Germanic languages |
| gez | Geez |
| gil | Gilbertese |
| gl | Galician |
| gmh | German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) |
| gn | Guarani |
| goh | German, Old High (ca.750-1050) |
| gon | Gondi |
| gor | Gorontalo |
| got | Gothic |
| grb | Grebo |
| grc | Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
| gsw | Swiss German; Alemannic; Alsatian |
| gu | Gujarati |
| gv | Manx |
| gwi | Gwich'in |
| ha | Hausa |
| hai | Haida |
| haw | Hawaiian |
| he | Hebrew |
| hi | Hindi |
| hil | Hiligaynon |
| him | Himachali languages; Western Pahari languages |
| hit | Hittite |
| hmn | Hmong; Mong |
| ho | Hiri Motu |
| hr | Croatian |
| hsb | Upper Sorbian |
| ht | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
| hu | Hungarian |
| hup | Hupa |
| hy | Armenian |
| hz | Herero |
| ia | Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) |
| iba | Iban |
| id | Indonesian |
| ie | Interlingue; Occidental |
| ig | Igbo |
| ii | Sichuan Yi; Nuosu |
| ijo | Ijo languages |
| ik | Inupiaq |
| ilo | Iloko |
| inc | Indic languages |
| ine | Indo-European languages |
| inh | Ingush |
| io | Ido |
| ira | Iranian languages |
| iro | Iroquoian languages |
| is | Icelandic |
| it | Italian |
| iu | Inuktitut |
| ja | Japanese |
| jbo | Lojban |
| jpr | Judeo-Persian |
| jrb | Judeo-Arabic |
| jv | Javanese |
| ka | Georgian |
| kaa | Kara-Kalpak |
| kab | Kabyle |
| kac | Kachin; Jingpho |
| kam | Kamba |
| kar | Karen languages |
| kaw | Kawi |
| kbd | Kabardian |
| kg | Kongo |
| kha | Khasi |
| khi | Khoisan languages |
| kho | Khotanese; Sakan |
| ki | Kikuyu; Gikuyu |
| kj | Kuanyama; Kwanyama |
| kk | Kazakh |
| kl | Kalaallisut; Greenlandic |
| km | Central Khmer |
| kmb | Kimbundu |
| kn | Kannada |
| ko | Korean |
| kok | Konkani |
| kos | Kosraean |
| kpe | Kpelle |
| kr | Kanuri |
| krc | Karachay-Balkar |
| krl | Karelian |
| kro | Kru languages |
| kru | Kurukh |
| ks | Kashmiri |
| ku | Kurdish |
| kum | Kumyk |
| kut | Kutenai |
| kv | Komi |
| kw | Cornish |
| ky | Kirghiz; Kyrgyz |
| la | Latin |
| lad | Ladino |
| lah | Lahnda |
| lam | Lamba |
| lb | Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch |
| lez | Lezghian |
| lg | Ganda |
| li | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish |
| ln | Lingala |
| lo | Lao |
| lol | Mongo |
| loz | Lozi |
| lt | Lithuanian |
| lu | Luba-Katanga |
| lua | Luba-Lulua |
| lui | Luiseno |
| lun | Lunda |
| luo | Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) |
| lus | Lushai |
| lv | Latvian |
| mad | Madurese |
| mag | Magahi |
| mai | Maithili |
| mak | Makasar |
| man | Mandingo |
| map | Austronesian languages |
| mas | Masai |
| mdf | Moksha |
| mdr | Mandar |
| men | Mende |
| mg | Malagasy |
| mga | Irish, Middle (900-1200) |
| mh | Marshallese |
| mi | Maori |
| mic | Mi'kmaq; Micmac |
| min | Minangkabau |
| mis | Uncoded languages |
| mk | Macedonian |
| mkh | Mon-Khmer languages |
| ml | Malayalam |
| mn | Mongolian |
| mnc | Manchu |
| mni | Manipuri |
| mno | Manobo languages |
| moh | Mohawk |
| mos | Mossi |
| mr | Marathi |
| ms | Malay |
| mt | Maltese |
| mul | Multiple languages |
| mun | Munda languages |
| mus | Creek |
| mwl | Mirandese |
| mwr | Marwari |
| my | Burmese |
| myn | Mayan languages |
| myv | Erzya |
| na | Nauru |
| nah | Nahuatl languages |
| nai | North American Indian languages |
| nap | Neapolitan |
| nb | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
| nd | Ndebele, North; North Ndebele |
| nds | Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low |
| ne | Nepali |
| new | Nepal Bhasa; Newari |
| ng | Ndonga |
| nia | Nias |
| nic | Niger-Kordofanian languages |
| niu | Niuean |
| nl | Dutch; Flemish |
| nn | Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian |
| no | Norwegian |
| nog | Nogai |
| non | Norse, Old |
| nqo | N'Ko |
| nr | Ndebele, South; South Ndebele |
| nso | Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho |
| nub | Nubian languages |
| nv | Navajo; Navaho |
| nwc | Classical Newari; Old Newari; Classical Nepal Bhasa |
| ny | Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja |
| nym | Nyamwezi |
| nyn | Nyankole |
| nyo | Nyoro |
| nzi | Nzima |
| oc | Occitan (post 1500) |
| oj | Ojibwa |
| om | Oromo |
| or | Oriya |
| os | Ossetian; Ossetic |
| osa | Osage |
| ota | Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) |
| oto | Otomian languages |
| pa | Panjabi; Punjabi |
| paa | Papuan languages |
| pag | Pangasinan |
| pal | Pahlavi |
| pam | Pampanga; Kapampangan |
| pap | Papiamento |
| pau | Palauan |
| peo | Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.) |
| phi | Philippine languages |
| phn | Phoenician |
| pi | Pali |
| pl | Polish |
| pon | Pohnpeian |
| pra | Prakrit languages |
| pro | Provençal, Old (to 1500);Occitan, Old (to 1500) |
| ps | Pushto; Pashto |
| pt | Portuguese |
| qu | Quechua |
| raj | Rajasthani |
| rap | Rapanui |
| rar | Rarotongan; Cook Islands Maori |
| rm | Romansh |
| rn | Rundi |
| ro | Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan |
| roa | Romance languages |
| rom | Romany |
| ru | Russian |
| rup | Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian |
| rw | Kinyarwanda |
| sa | Sanskrit |
| sad | Sandawe |
| sah | Yakut |
| sai | South American Indian languages |
| sal | Salishan languages |
| sam | Samaritan Aramaic |
| sas | Sasak |
| sat | Santali |
| sc | Sardinian |
| scn | Sicilian |
| sco | Scots |
| sd | Sindhi |
| se | Northern Sami |
| sel | Selkup |
| sem | Semitic languages |
| sg | Sango |
| sga | Irish, Old (to 900) |
| sgn | Sign Languages |
| shn | Shan |
| si | Sinhala; Sinhalese |
| sid | Sidamo |
| sio | Siouan languages |
| sit | Sino-Tibetan languages |
| sk | Slovak |
| sl | Slovenian |
| sla | Slavic languages |
| sm | Samoan |
| sma | Southern Sami |
| smi | Sami languages |
| smj | Lule Sami |
| smn | Inari Sami |
| sms | Skolt Sami |
| sn | Shona |
| snk | Soninke |
| so | Somali |
| sog | Sogdian |
| son | Songhai languages |
| sq | Albanian |
| sr | Serbian |
| srn | Sranan Tongo |
| srr | Serer |
| ss | Swati |
| ssa | Nilo-Saharan languages |
| st | Sotho, Southern |
| su | Sundanese |
| suk | Sukuma |
| sus | Susu |
| sux | Sumerian |
| sv | Swedish |
| sw | Swahili |
| syc | Classical Syriac |
| syr | Syriac |
| ta | Tamil |
| tai | Tai languages |
| te | Telugu |
| tem | Timne |
| ter | Tereno |
| tet | Tetum |
| tg | Tajik |
| th | Thai |
| ti | Tigrinya |
| tig | Tigre |
| tiv | Tiv |
| tk | Turkmen |
| tkl | Tokelau |
| tl | Tagalog |
| tlh | Klingon; tlhIngan-Hol |
| tli | Tlingit |
| tmh | Tamashek |
| tn | Tswana |
| to | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
| tog | Tonga (Nyasa) |
| tpi | Tok Pisin |
| tr | Turkish |
| ts | Tsonga |
| tsi | Tsimshian |
| tt | Tatar |
| tum | Tumbuka |
| tup | Tupi languages |
| tut | Altaic languages |
| tvl | Tuvalu |
| tw | Twi |
| ty | Tahitian |
| tyv | Tuvinian |
| udm | Udmurt |
| ug | Uighur; Uyghur |
| uga | Ugaritic |
| uk | Ukrainian |
| umb | Umbundu |
| und | Undetermined |
| ur | Urdu |
| uz | Uzbek |
| vai | Vai |
| ve | Venda |
| vi | Vietnamese |
| vo | Volapük |
| vot | Votic |
| wa | Walloon |
| wak | Wakashan languages |
| wal | Wolaitta; Wolaytta |
| war | Waray |
| was | Washo |
| wen | Sorbian languages |
| wo | Wolof |
| xal | Kalmyk; Oirat |
| xh | Xhosa |
| yao | Yao |
| yap | Yapese |
| yi | Yiddish |
| yo | Yoruba |
| ypk | Yupik languages |
| za | Zhuang; Chuang |
| zap | Zapotec |
| zbl | Blissymbols; Blissymbolics; Bliss |
| zen | Zenaga |
| zgh | Standard Moroccan Tamazight |
| zh | Chinese |
| znd | Zande languages |
| zu | Zulu |
| zun | Zuni |
| zxx | No linguistic content; Not applicable |
| zza | Zaza; Dimili; Dimli; Kirdki; Kirmanjki; Zazaki |
This value set contains 485 concepts
Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:
| Level | A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. In this scheme, some codes are under other codes, and imply that the code they are under also applies |
| System | The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere) |
| Code | The code (used as the code in the resource instance) |
| Display | The display (used in the display element of a Coding). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application |
| Definition | An explanation of the meaning of the concept |
| Comments | Additional notes about how to use the code |
History
| Date | Action | Author | Custodian | Comment |
| 2025-03-14 | create | Marc Duteau | CGP | Create a US Realm language value set; up-636 |
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