Home Primary Language (Virginia)

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The Home Primary Language field is used to identify the primary language spoken at a person's home. This field is used in various state reports and program reporting.


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Home Primary Language Values

This table lists all current Home Primary Language values available.


Code Name ISO Code
10 Abkhazian abk
15 Adja nic
20 Afar aar
25 Afghan ine
30 Afrikaans afr
40 Akan aka
50 Albanian alb
60 Amharic amh
70 Sign Languages sgn
80 Arabic ara
90 Ashanti aka
95 Ashanti aka
100 Assamese asm
110 Awadhi awa
120 Azerbaijani aze
130 Bashkir bak
140 Basque baq
150 Belarusian bel
160 Bengali ben
170 Bhojpuri bho
180 Bihari bih
185 Bisaya map
190 Bislama bis
200 Bulgarian bul
210 Burmese bur
215 Bosnian bos
220 Breton bre
230 Khmer, Central (Cambodian) khm
240 Carolinian chk
250 Catalan (Valencian) cat
260 Cebuano ceb
270 Chhattisgarhi ine
280 Chamorro cha
290 Chinese chi
300 Chinese, Mandarin chi
310 Chinese, Min Nan (Fukienese or Fujianese) chi
320 Chinese, Yue (Cantonese) chi
330 Chittagonian ben
340 Chuukese chk
350 Creoles and pidgins (Other) crp
360 Czech cze
370 Danish dan
380 Deccan ine
385 Dinka din
390 Dutch dut
410 Esperanto epo
420 Estonian est
422 Ewe ewe
425 Fanti fat
430 Farsi fas
440 Fijian fij
450 Finnish fin
460 French fre
470 Frisian fry
475 Fulah ful
480 Fulfulde, Nigerian ful
485 Ga gaa
490 Galician glg
500 Georgian geo
510 German ger
520 Greek, Modern (1453- ) gre
530 Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) kal
550 Guarani grn
570 Gujarati guj
580 Haitian, Creole hat
590 Haryanvi ine
600 Hausa hau
610 Hebrew heb
620 Hiligaynon hil
630 Hindi hin
640 Hmong hmn
650 Hungarian hun
655 Ibo Ibo
660 Icelandic ice
670 Igbo ibo
680 Ilocano (Iloko, Ilokano) ilo
690 Indian hin
700 Indonesian ind
710 Island Carib car
720 Italian ita
730 Japanese jpn
740 Javanese jav
745 Kachi snd
746 Kachin (Jingpho) kac
750 Kannada kan
760 Kashmiri kas
770 Kazakh tut
780 Kinyarwanda kin
790 Kirundi run
800 Korean kor
810 Kosraean kos
812 Kotokoli nic
815 Krahn nic
817 Krio cpe
819 Kurdi kur
820 Kurdish (Kurdi, Kurmanji) kur
840 Kyrgyz (Kirghiz) kir
845 Lao (Laothian) lao
850 Latin lat
855 Lebanese ara
860 Lingala lin
870 Laothian lao
880 Latvian lav
890 Lithuanian lit
900 Lombard roa
905 Luganda lug
907 Macedonian mac
910 Madura mad
920 Magahi mag
925 MaiMai map
930 Maithili mai
940 Malagasy mla
945 Malawi ine
950 Malay may
960 Malayalam mal
970 Maltese mlt
975 Mandingo man
980 Marathi mar
990 Marshallese mah
1000 Marwari mwr
1010 Mongolian mon
1020 Napoletano-Calabrese nap
1030 Nauru nau
1040 Nepali nep
1050 Norwegian nor
1060 Occitan (post 1500) oci
1070 Oriya ori
1080 Oromo orm
1090 Palauan pau
1100 Panjabi, Eastern (Punjabi) ine
1110 Panjabi, Western ine
1120 Pashto, Northern pus
1130 Pashto, Southern pus
1135 Patois cpe
1140 Pohnpeian pon
1150 Polish pol
1160 Portuguese por
1165 Punjabi pan
1170 Quechua que
1190 Romanian rum
1200 Russian rus
1210 Rwanda kin
1220 Samoan smo
1230 Sango sag
1240 Sanskrit san
1250 Saraiki ine
1260 Serbian mis
1270 Serbo-Croatian mis
1280 Sesotho sot
1290 Setswana tsn
1300 Shona sna
1310 Sindhi snd
1320 Singhalese sin
1330 Sinhala (Sinhalese) sin
1340 Siswati ssw
1350 Slovak slo
1360 Slovenian slv
1370 Somali som
1380 Spanish (Castilian) spa
1390 Sundanese sun
1400 Swahili (Swati) swa
1410 Swedish swe
1420 Tagalog tgl
1430 Tamil tam
1440 Tatar tat
1445 Tchamba nic
1450 Telugu tel
1455 Temene tem
1460 Thai tha
1461 Tibetan, Amdo tib
1462 Tibetan, Central tib
1463 Tibetan, Khams tib
1465 Tigrinya tir
1470 Tonga (Tonga Islands) ton
1480 Tsonga tso
1490 Turkish tur
1500 Turkmen tuk
1510 Twi twi
1520 Ukrainian ukr
1530 Urdu urd
1540 Uyghur (Uighur) uig
1550 Uzbek uzb
1560 Vietnamese vie
1570 Volapuk vol
1575 Wolof wol
1577 English, World eng
1580 Yapese yap
1590 Yoruba yor
1595 Yugoslavian slv
1600 Xhosa xho
1610 Zhuang (Chuang) zha
1620 Zulu zul
1630 Abnaki alg
1640 Achimawi was
1650 Ahtena ath
1660 Alabama mus
1670 Aleut ale
1680 Algonquian languages alg
1690 Apache languages apa
1700 Arapaho arp
1710 Araucanian arn
1720 Arikara cad
1730 Athapascan languages ath
1740 Atsina alg
1750 Atsugewi was
1760 Aucanian arn
1770 Aymara aym
1780 Aztec nah
1790 Blackfoot bla
1800 Caddo cad
1820 Cakchiquel, Central myn
1830 Cakchiquel, Eastern myn
1840 Cakchiquel, Mam myn
1850 Cakchiquel, Northern myn
1860 Cakchiquel, Santa Maria de Jesus myn
1870 Cakchiquel, Santo Domingo myn
1880 Cakchiquel, Southern myn
1890 Cakchiquel, Southwestern myn
1900 Cakchiquel, Western myn
1910 Cayuga moh
1920 Chasta Costa ath
1930 Chemeheuvi (dialogue of Ute) myn
1940 Cherokee chr
1950 Chetemacha sai
1960 Cheyenne chy
1970 Chinook jargon chn
1980 Chiricahua apm
1990 Chiwere dak
2000 Choctaw cho
2010 Chumash sai
2020 Clallam sal
2030 Cocomaricopa sai
2040 Coeur d'Alene sal
2050 Columbia sal
2060 Comanche sai
2070 Cowlitz sal
2080 Cree cre
2090 Crow sio
2100 Cuna chb
2110 Cupena myn
2120 Dakota dak
2130 Delaware del
2140 Yuman, Delta River sai
2150 Diegueno sai
2160 Eskimo ale
2170 Eyak ath
2180 Foothill North Yokuts sai
2190 Fon fon
2200 French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) frm
2210 Guarani grn
2220 Guaymi chb
2230 Haida hai
2240 Karen languages kar
2241 Chin sit
2250 Havasupai sai
2260 Hichita cad
2270 Hidatsa nai
2280 Hopi sai
2290 Hupa hup
2300 Ingalit ath
2310 Inupik ale
2320 Iroquoian languages iro
2330 Jicarilla ath
2340 Kalispel sal
2350 Kansa sio
2360 Karok nai
2370 Kawaiisu myn
2380 Keres cai
2400 Kickapoo alg
2410 Kiowa sai
2420 Kiowa-Apache apa
2430 Klamath nai
2440 Koasati mus
2450 Koyukon ath
2460 Kuchin gwi
2470 Kutenai kut
2480 Kwakiutl alg
2490 Chehalis, Lower sal
2500 Luiseno lui
2510 Maidu, Northeast nai
2520 Maidu, Northwest nai
2530 Maidu, Valley nai
2540 Makah sai
2550 Mam myn
2560 Mandan sio
2570 Maya myn
2580 Menomini alg
2590 Miami alg
2600 Micmac (Mi'kmaq) mic
2610 Mikasuki sai
2620 Miwok, Southern Sierra sai
2630 Miwok, Central Sierra sai
2640 Miwok, Coast sai
2650 Miwok, Lake sai
2660 Miwok, Northern Sierra sai
2670 Miwok, Plains sai
2680 Mixteco, San Juan Mixtepec sai
2690 Mohawk moh
2700 Mono myn
2710 Mountain Maidu nai
2720 Muskogee mus
2730 Navaho nav
2740 Nez Perce nai
2750 Nomlaki nai
2760 Nootka wak
2770 Nootsack sal
2780 Paiute, Northern myn
2790 Ojibwa, Eastern oji
2800 Ojibwa oji
2820 Okanagan sal
2830 Omaha sio
2840 Oneida iro
2850 Onondaga iro
2860 Osage osa
2870 Athapascan-Eyak: Other ath
2880 Ottawa alg
2900 Yupik, Pacific Gulf ypk
2910 Shoshone, Panamint sai
2920 Passamaquoddy alg
2930 Patwin nai
2940 Pawnee cad
2950 Penobscot alg
2960 Picuris sai
2970 Pima myn
2980 Pomo (alt. For POL) pol
2990 Pomo, Central sai
3000 Pomo, Eastern cai
3010 Pomo, Northeastern nai
3020 Pomo, Northern nai
3030 Pomo, Southeastern sai
3040 Pomo, Southern sai
3050 Ponca (dialect of Omaha) sio
3060 Potawatomi alg
3070 Quapaw osa
3080 Quechua, Ancash, Chiquian que
3090 Quechua, Ancash, Conchucos, Northern que
3100 Quechua, Ancash, Conchucos, Southern que
3110 Quechua, Ancash, Corongo que
3120 Quechua, Ancash, Huaylas que
3130 Quechua, Ancash, Sihuas que
3140 Quechua, Apurimac que
3150 Quechua, Ayacucho que
3160 Quechua, Boliviano que
3170 Quechua, Cajamarca que
3180 Quechua, Chachapoyas que
3190 Quechua, Chilean que
3200 Quechua, Classical que
3210 Quechua, Catahuasi que
3220 Quechua, Cuzco que
3230 Quechua, Huanca, Huaylla que
3240 Quechua, Huanca, Jauja que
3250 Quechua, Huanuco, Huaylla que
3260 Quechua, Huanuco, Huamalies-Northern Dos De Mayo que
3270 Quechua, Huanuco, Maranon que
3280 Quechua, Huanuco, Panao que
3290 Quechua, Huanuco, Southern Dos De Mayo-Margos Chau que
3300 Quechua, Lambayeque que
3310 Quechua, North Bolivian que
3320 Quechua, North Junin que
3330 Quechua, North Lima Cajatambo que
3340 Quechua, Northwest Jujuy que
3350 Quechua, Pacaroas que
3360 Quechua, Pasco, Santa Ana De Tusi que
3370 Quechua, Pasco-Yanahuanca que
3380 Quechua, Pastaza, Southern que
3390 Quechua, Puno que
3400 Quechua, San Martin que
3410 Quechua, San Rafael-Huariaca que
3420 Quechua, South Bolivian que
3430 Quechua, Yauyos que
3440 Quekchi myn
3450 Quiche, Central myn
3460 Quiche, Cunen myn
3470 Quiche, Eastern myn
3480 Quiche, Joyabaj myn
3490 Quiche, San Andres myn
3500 Quiche, West Central myn
3510 Quinault sal
3520 Sahaptian nai
3530 Yupik, Saint Lawrence Island ypk
3540 Salish, Southern Puget Sound sal
3550 Salish, Straits sal
3560 San Carlos sai
3570 Sandia sai
3580 Santiam nai
3590 Seneca iro
3600 Serrano ser
3610 Shastan ssai
3620 Shawnee alg
3630 Shoshone nai
3640 Siuslaw nai
3650 Maidu, Southern nai
3660 Paiute, Southern myn
3670 Spokane sal
3680 Tachi sai
3690 Tanacross ath
3700 Tanaina ath
3710 Tanana ath
3720 Tarahumara Baja myn
3730 American Indian, Central (Other) cai
3760 Southwestern  
3770 Tarascan myn
3780 Tewa sai
3790 Tillamook sal
3800 Tiwa, Northern sai
3810 Tiwa, Southern sai
3820 Tlingit tli
3830 Tonkawa cai
3840 Towa sai
3850 Tsimshian tsi
3860 Tubatulabal myn
3870 Tupi languages tup
3880 Tuscarora iro
3890 Twana sal
3900 Yuman, Upland sai
3910 Chehalis, Upper sal
3920 Chinook, Upper chn
3930 Kuskokwim, Upper ath
3940 Tanana, Upper ath
3950 Yuman, Upriver sai
3960 Ute sai
3970 Walapai sai
3980 Wappo sai
3990 Washo was
4000 Wichita cad
4010 Winnebago sio
4020 Wintun nai
4030 Wiyot alg
4040 Wyandot iro
4050 Yaqui myn
4060 Yavapai sai
4070 Yuchi sai
4080 Yuki sai
4090 Yuma sai
4100 Yupik languages ypk
4130 Yurok alg
4140 Zapotec zap
4160 Zuni zun
4170 Dari per
4180 Mon mon
4190 Filipino (Pilipino, Philippine) fil
4200 Achinese ace
4210 Adangme ada
4220 Acoli ach
4245 Adyghe (Adygei) ady
4250 Afrihili afh
4255 Afro-Asiatic (Other) afa
4260 Ainu mis
4265 Akkadian akk
4270 German, Swiss (Alemannic, Alsatian) mis
4280 Altaic (Other) tut
4285 Angika mis
4290 Aragonese arg
4295 Arawak arw
4300 Aromanian (Arumanian, Macedo-Romanian) rup
4305 Artificial (Other) art
4315 Asturian (Astur-Leonese, Leonese, Bable) ast
4325 Australian languages aus
4330 Austronesian (Other) map
4335 Avaric ava
4340 Avestan ave
4350 Balinese ban
4355 Baltic (Other) bat
4360 Baluchi bal
4365 Bambara bam
4370 Bamileke languages bai
4375 Banda languages bad
4380 Bantu (Other) bnt
4385 Batak languages btk
4390 Bedawiyet (Beja) bej
4400 Berber (Other) ber
4405 Bikol bik
4410 Bilen (Bilin) mis
4430 Blissymbolics mis
4440 Norwegian, Bokmal nob
4445 Braj bra
4450 Buginese bug
4455 Buriat bua
4465 Caucasian (Other) cau
4470 Celtic (Other) cel
4480 Chagatai chg
4485 Chamic languages cmc
4490 Chechen che
4495 Nyanja (Chewa, Chichewa) nya
4500 Chibcha chb
4525 Church Slavonic chu
4530 Chuvash chv
4550 Rarotongan (Cook Islands Maori) rar
4555 Coptic cop
4560 Cornish cor
4565 Corsican cos
4570 Creek mus
4575 Creoles and pidgins, English based (Other) cpe
4580 Creoles and pidgins, French-based (Other) cpf
4585 Creoles and pidgins, Portuguese-based (Other) cpp
4590 Crimean (Tatar and Turkish) crh
4600 Croatian mis
4605 Cushitic (Other) cus
4610 Dargwa dar
4615 Dene Suline (Chipewyan) chp
4625 Dimili (Dimli) zza
4640 Dogri ine
4645 Dogrib dgr
4650 Dravidian (Other) dra
4655 Duala dua
4660 Dutch, Middle (ca.1050-1350) dum
4665 Dyula dyu
4670 Dzongkha dzo
4675 Frisian, Eastern mis
4680 Edo (Bini) bin
4685 Efik efi
4690 Egyptian (Ancient) egy
4695 Ekajuk eka
4700 Elamite elx
4705 English, Middle (1100-1500) enm
4710 English, Old (ca.450-1100) eng
4715 Erzya myn
4720 Ewondo ewo
4725 Fang fan
4730 Faroese fao
4735 Finno-Ugrian (Other) fiu
4740 Flemish nld
4745 French, Old (842-ca.1400) fro
4750 Friulian fur
4755 Gaelic gla
4760 Galibi Carib car
4765 Ganda lug
4770 Gayo gay
4775 Gbaya gba
4780 Geez gez
4785 German, Low (Low Saxon) nds
4790 German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) gmh
4795 German, Old High (ca.750-1050) goh
4800 Germanic (Other) gem
4805 Gikuyu (Kikuyu) kik
4810 Gilbertese gil
4815 Gondi gon
4820 Gorontalo gor
4825 Gothic got
4830 Grebo grb
4835 Greek, Ancient (to 1453) grc
4845 Gwich'in gwi
4850 Haitian hat
4855 Hawaiian haw
4860 Herero her
4865 Himachali him
4870 Hiri Motu hmo
4875 Hittite hit
4880 Iban iba
4885 Ijo languages ijo
4895 Aramaic (700-300 BCE), Imperial arc
4900 Sami, Inari smn
4905 Indic (Other) inc
4910 Indo-European (Other) ine
4915 Ingush inh
4920 Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Asso ina
4925 Interlingue (Occidental) ile
4930 Inuktitut iku
4935 Inupiaq ipk
4940 Iranian, Other ira
4945 Irish gle
4950 Irish, Middle (900-1200) mga
4955 Irish, Old (to 900) sga
4965 Judeo-Arabic jrb
4970 Judeo-Persian jpr
4975 Kabardian kbd
4980 Kabyle kab
4990 Kamba kam
4995 Kanuri kau
5000 Pampangan (Kapampangan, Pampango) pam
5005 Kara-Kalpak kaa
5010 Karachay-Balkar mis
5015 Karelian mis
5020 Kashubian ine
5025 Kawi kaw
5030 Khasi kha
5035 Khoisan (Other) khi
5040 Khotanese kho
5050 Kimbundu kmb
5055 Zazaki (Zaza ,Kirdki) mis
5065 Kirmanjki mis
5075 Komi kom
5080 Kongo kon
5085 Konkani kok
5090 Kpelle kpe
5095 Kru languages kro
5100 Kuanyama (Oshiwambo, Kwanjama) kua
5105 Kumyk kum
5110 Kurukh kru
5125 Ladino lad
5130 Lahnda lah
5135 Lamba lam
5140 Land Dayak languages map
5150 Letzeburgesch ltz
5155 Lezghian lez
5170 Limburgish (Limburgan, Limburger) lim
5190 Sorbian, Lower mis
5195 Lozi loz
5200 Luba-Katanga lub
5205 Luba-Lulua lub
5215 Sami, Lule smj
5220 Lunda lun
5225 Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) luo
5230 Lushai lus
5235 Luxembourgish ltz
5245 Madurese mad
5250 Makasar mak
5255 Maldivian (Dhivehi, Divehi) div
5260 Manchu mnc
5265 Mandar men
5270 Manipuri mni
5275 Manobo languages mno
5280 Manx glv
5285 Maori mao
5295 Mapudungun (Mapuche) arn
5300 Mari chm
5305 Masai mas
5310 Mayan languages myn
5315 Mende men
5325 Minangkabau min
5330 Mirandese mis
5335 Moksha mis
5345 Moldovan (Moldavian) rum
5350 Mon-Khmer (Other) mkh
5355 Mongo lol
5360 Multiple languages mul
5365 Munda languages mun
5370 N'Ko mis
5375 Nahuatl languages nah
5380 Ndebele, North nde
5385 Ndebele, South nbl
5390 Ndonga ndo
5395 Neapolitan nap
5400 Nepal Bhasa (Newari ) new
5415 Nias nia
5420 Niger-Kordofanian (Other) nic
5425 Nilo-Saharan (Other) ssa
5430 Niuean niu
5435 No linguistic content mis
5440 Nogai nog
5445 Norse, Old non
5450 American Indian, North nai
5460 Frisian, Northern mis
5465 Sami, Northern sme
5480 Norwegian, Nynorsk nno
5490 Nubian languages nub
5495 Sichuan Yi (Nuosu) iii
5500 Nyamwezi nym
5510 Nyankole nyn
5520 Nyoro nyo
5525 Nzima nzi
5530 Oirat xal
5532 Bulgarian, Old (Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic) chu
5539 Ossetian (Ossetic, Ossete) oss
5541 Otomian languages oto
5542 Pahlavi pal
5544 Pali pli
5546 Pangasinan pag
5548 Papiamento pap
5549 Papuan (Other); map
5552 Persian per
5553 Persian, Old (ca.600-400 B.C.); peo
5555 Phoenician phn
5560 Prakrit languages pra
5565 Rajasthani raj
5566 Rapanui rap
5571 Romansh roh
5572 Romany rom
5573 Rundi run
5575 Salishan languages sal
5576 Aramaic, Samaritan sam
5577 Sami languages (Other) smi
5579 Sandawe sad
5582 Santali sat
5583 Sardinian srd
5584 Sasak sas
5586 Scots sco
5587 Scottish Gaelic ine
5588 Selkup sel
5589 Semitic (Other); sem
5592 Serer srr
5593 Shan shn
5596 Sicilian mis
5597 Sidamo sid
5599 Siksika bla
5603 Sino-Tibetan (Other) sit
5604 Siouan languages sio
5605 Sami, Skolt sms
5607 Slavic (Other); sla
5610 Sogdian sog
5612 Songhai languages son
5613 Soninke snk
5614 Sorbian languages wen
5615 Sotho, Northern (Pedi, Sepedi) nso
5616 Sotho, Southern sot
5617 American Indian, South (Other) sai
5619 Southern Altai mis
5620 Sami, Southern sma
5622 Sranan Tongo mis
5623 Sukuma suk
5624 Sumerian sux
5626 Susu sus
5631 Syriac mis
5633 Tahitian tah
5634 Tai (Other); tai
5635 Tajik tgk
5636 Tamashek tmh
5640 Tereno ter
5641 Tetum tet
5644 Tigre tig
5646 Timne tem
5647 Tiv tiv
5650 Tok Pisin tpi
5651 Tokelau tkl
5652 Tonga (Nyasa); tog
5656 Tswana tsn
5657 Tumbuka tum
5660 Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) ota
5662 Tuvalu tvl
5663 Tuvinian tyv
5665 Udmurt udm
5666 Ugaritic uga
5669 Umbundu umb
5672 Sorbian, Upper mis
5676 Vai vai
5678 Venda ven
5681 Votic vot
5682 Wakashan languages wak
5683 Walloon wln
5684 Waray war
5686 Welsh wel
5687 Frisian, Western fry
5689 Wolaytta (Wolaitta ) wal
5691 Xhosa xho
5692 Yakut sah
5693 Yao yao
5695 Yiddish yid
5698 Zande languages znd
5702 Zenaga zen
5703 Harari afa
9999 Undetermined und