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The following table lists languages that are used in several state reports.
Demographics - Home Primary Language
aar | Afar |
| abk | Abkhazian |
| ace | Achinese |
| ach | Acoli |
| ada | Adangme |
| ady | Adyghe |
afr | Africaans |
| afr | Afrikaans |
aht | Ahtena |
| ain | Ainu |
aka | Akan |
akz | Alabama |
ale | Aleut |
alq | Algonquin |
| alt | Southern Altai |
amh | Amharic |
| ang | English, Old |
| anp | Angika |
apk | Kiowa Apache |
ara | Arabic |
| arg | Argonese |
ari | Arikara |
| arn | Mapudungun |
arp | Arapaho |
| arw | Arawak |
ase | American Sign Language |
asm | Assamese |
| ast | Asturian |
atw | Atsugewi |
| ava | Avaric |
awa | Awadhi |
aym | Aymara |
aze | Azerhaijani |
bak | Bashkir |
| bal | Baluchi |
bam | Bambara |
| ban | Balinese |
| baq | Basque |
bar | Bavarian |
| bas | Basa (Cameroon) |
bbz | Creole Arabic, Babalia |
| bej | Beja |
bel | Belarusian |
| bem | Bemba (Zambia) |
ben | Bengali |
| ber | Berber languages |
bgc | Haryanvi |
bho | Bhojpuri |
bic | Bikaru* |
| bik | Bikol |
bin | Edo |
bis | Bislama |
| bla | Siksika |
| bnt | Bantu languages |
bod | Tibetan |
bos | Bosnian |
| bra | Braj |
bre | Breton |
bsk | Burushaski |
| bua | Buriat |
bug | Buginese |
bul | Bulgarian |
bya | Batak |
| byn | Bilin |
cad | Caddo |
| cai | Central American Indian languages |
cak | Cakchiquel |
cal | Carolinian |
| car | Galibi Carib |
cat | Catalan |
cay | Cayuga |
cea | Lower Chehalis |
ceb | Cebuano |
ces | Czech |
cha | Chamorro |
che | Chechen |
chk | Chuukese |
chl | Cahuilla |
| chm | Mari (Russia) |
chn | Chinook jargon |
cho | Choctaw |
| chp | Chipewyan |
chr | Cherokee |
chv | Chuvash |
chy | Cheyenne |
cic | Chickasaw |
cjh | Upper Chehalis |
cku | Koasati |
ckz | Cakchiquel-Quiche Mixed Language |
clm | Clallam |
cmn | Chinese, Mandarin |
com | Comanche |
| cor | Cornish |
cos | Corsican |
cow | Corwlitz |
cqu | Quechua, Chilean |
crb | Island Carib |
cre | Cree |
| crh | Crimean Tartak |
cro | Crow |
| crp | Creoles and pidgins |
| csb | Kashubian |
csi | Miwok, Coast |
csm | Miqok, Central Sierra |
ctg | Chittagonian |
cup | Cupeno |
cym | Welsh |
dak | Dakota |
dan | Danish |
| dar | Dargwa |
dcc | Deccan |
del | Delaware |
deu | German |
| dgr | Dogrib |
din | Dinka |
div | Maldivian |
| doi | Dogri (macrolanguage) |
| dra | Dravidian languages |
| dsb | Lower Sorbian |
| dua | Duala |
| dut | Dutch, Flemish |
| dyu | Dyula |
dzo | Dzongkha |
efi | Efik |
| egy | Egyptian (Ancient) |
| eka | Ekajuk |
ell | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
ems | Yupik, Pacific Gulf |
eng | English |
ess | Yupik, Central Siberian |
est | Estonian |
esu | Yupik, Central |
eus | Basque |
evn | Evenki |
ewe | Ewe |
| ewo | Ewondo |
eya | Eyak |
| fan | Fang (Equatorial Guinea) |
fao | Faroese |
fas | Persian |
| fat | Fanti |
fij | Fijian |
| fil | Filipino, Pilipino |
fin | Finnish |
| fiu | Finno-Ugrian |
fon | Fon |
fqs | Fas |
fra | French |
| frr | Norther Frisian |
| frs | Eastern Frisian |
| fry | Western Frisian |
| ful | Fulah |
| fur | Friulian |
fuv | Fulfulde, Nigerian |
gaa | Ga |
| gay | Gabo |
| gba | Gbaya (Central African Republic) |
| gil | Gilbertese |
gkn | Gokana |
gla | Gaelic |
| gle | Irish |
glg | Galician |
| glv | Manx |
| gon | Gondi |
| gor | Goronotalo |
| grb | Grebo |
grn | Guarani |
gsw | Swiss German |
gug | Paraguayan Guarani |
guj | Gujarati |
| gwi | Gwich'in |
haa | Han |
hai | Haida |
hak | Chinese, Hakka |
hat | Haitian Creole |
hau | Hausa |
haw | Hawaiian |
haz | Hazaragi |
hbs | Serbo-Croatian |
heb | Hebrew |
| her | Herero |
hid | Hidatsa |
hif | Fiji Hindi |
hil | Hiligaynon |
hin | Hindi |
| hit | Hittite |
hmn | Hmong |
| hmo | Hiri Motu |
hne | Chhattisgarhi |
hop | Hopi |
hrv | Croatian |
| hsb | Upper Sorbian |
hun | Hungarian |
hup | Hupa |
hye | Armenian |
| iba | Iban |
ibo | Igbo |
| ido | Ido |
| iii | Sichuan Yi |
| iku | Inuktitut |
| ile | Interlingue |
| ilo | Iloko |
ind | Indonesian |
inh | Ingush |
| ipk | Inupiaq |
isl | Icelandic |
ita | Italian |
jav | Javanese |
jpn | Japanese |
| jpr | Judeo-Persian |
| jrb | Judeo-Arabic |
| kaa | Kara-Kalpak |
| kab | Kabyle |
| kac | Kachin, Jingpho |
kal | Greenlandic |
| kam | Kamba |
kan | Kannada |
kas | Kashmiri |
kat | Georgian |
| kau | Kanuri |
kaz | Kazakh |
kbd | Kabardian |
kee | Keres, Eastern |
| kha | Khasi |
| khi | Khoisan languages |
| khm | Central Khmer |
kic | Kickapoo |
kik | Kikuyu |
kin | Kinwaywanda |
kio | Kiowa |
kir | Kyrgyz |
kjq | Keres, Western |
| kmb | Kimbundu |
koi | Komi-Permyak |
| kok | Konkani (macrolanguage) |
| kom | Komi |
kon | Kongo |
kor | Korean |
kos | Kosraean |
koy | Koyukon |
kpe | Kpelle |
krc | Karachay-Balkar |
kri | Krio |
krl | Karelian |
| kru | Kurukh |
ksk | Kansa |
| kua | Kuanyama, Kwanyama |
| kum | Kumyk |
kur | Kurdish |
kut | Kutenai |
kuu | Upper Koskokwim |
kwk | Kwakiutl |
kyh | Karok |
| lad | Ladino |
| lah | Lahnda |
| lam | Lamda |
lao | Lao |
lat | Latin |
lav | Latvian |
| lez | Lezghian |
lhu | Lahu* |
| lim | Limburgan |
lin | Lingala |
lit | Lithuanian |
lkt | Lakota |
lmo | Lombard |
lmw | Miwok, Lake |
| lol | Mongo |
| loz | Lozi |
ltz | Luxembourgish |
| lua | Luba-Lulua |
| lub | Luba-Katanga |
lug | Ganda |
lui | Luiseno |
| lun | Lunda |
| luo | Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) |
| lus | Lushai |
mad | Madurese |
mag | Magahi |
mah | Marshallese |
mai | Maithili |
| mak | Makasar |
mal | Malayalam |
mam | Mam |
| man | Mandingo |
mar | Marathi |
| mas | Masai |
| may | Malay |
mcu | Cameroon Mambila |
| mdf | Moksha |
| mdr | Mandar |
| men | Mende |
mhq | Mandan |
mia | Miami |
mic | Micmac |
mik | Mikasuki |
| min | Minangkabau |
mjd | Maidu, Northwest |
mkd | Macedonian |
| mkh | Mon-Khmer langauges |
mlg | Malagazy |
mlt | Maltese |
| mnc | Machu |
| mni | Manipuri |
| mno | Manobo languages |
moh | Mohawk |
mon | Mongolian |
mos | Mossi |
mri | Maori |
mus | Creek |
| mwl | Mirandese |
mwr | Marwari |
mya | Burmese |
myh | Makah |
| myn | Mayan languages |
myv | Erzya |
| nah | Nahuatl languages |
nan | Chinese, Min Nan |
| nap | Neapolitan |
nau | Nauru |
nav | Navajo |
| nbl | Ndebele, South; South Ndebele |
| nde | Ndebele, North; North Ndebele |
| ndo | Ndongo |
| nds | Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low |
nep | Nepali |
new | Newari |
nez | Nez Perce |
| nia | Nias |
| nic | Niger-Kordofanian languages |
| niu | Niuean |
nld | Dutch |
nmu | Maidu, Northeast |
| nno | Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian |
| nob | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
| nog | Nogai |
nok | Nooksack |
noo | Nootka |
nor | Norwegian |
| nqo | N'Ko |
| nso | Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho |
nsq | Miwok, Norther Sierra |
nya | Nyanja |
| nym | Nyamwezi |
| nyn | Nyankole |
| nyo | Nyoro |
| nzi | Nzima |
oci | Occitan (post 1500) |
ojg | Ojibwa, Eastern |
| oji | Ojibwa |
ojw | Ojibwa, Western |
oka | Okanagan |
one | Oneida |
ono | Onondaga |
ori | Oriya |
| orm | Oromo |
oss | Ossetian |
| oto | Otomian languages |
otw | Ottawa |
| pag | Pangasinan |
| pal | Pahlavi |
| pam | Pampanga; Kapampangan |
pan | Panjabi |
pao | Northern Paiute |
pap | Papiamento |
par | Panamint |
pau | Palauan |
paw | Pawnee |
pbt | Pashto, Southern |
pbu | Pashto, Northern |
peb | Pomo, Eastern |
pef | Pomo, Northeastern |
pej | Pomo, Northern |
peq | Pomo, Southern |
| pli | Pali |
pmw | Miwok, Plains |
pnb | Panjabi, Western |
pol | Pilish |
pom | Pomo, Southeastern |
pon | Pohnpeian |
poo | Pomo, Central |
por | Portuguese |
pot | Potawatomi |
prs | Dari |
pus | Pashto |
qua | Quapaw |
que | Quechua |
quf | Quechua, Lambayeque |
quh | Quechua, South Bolivian |
quk | Quechua, Chachapoyas |
qul | Quechua, North Bolivian |
qun | Quinault |
qup | Quechua, Southern Pastaza |
qur | Quechua, Yanahuanca |
qux | Quechua, Ayacucho |
| quy | Quechua, Ayacucho |
quz | Quechua, Cusco |
qvc | Quechua, Cajamarca |
qvl | Quechua, Cajatambo North Lima |
qvn | Quechua, North Junin |
qvp | Quechua, Pacaraos |
qvs | Quechua, San Martin |
qwa | Quechua, Corongo Ancash |
qwc | Quechua, Classical |
qxn | Quechua, Northern Conchucos Ancash |
qxo | Quechua, Southern Conchucos Ancash |
| qxp | Quechua, Puno |
| raj | Rajasthani |
| rap | Rapanui |
| rar | Rarotongan |
| roa | Romance languages |
| roh | Romansh |
rom | Romany |
ron | Romanian |
run | Rundi |
| rup | Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian |
rus | Russian |
| sad | Sandawe |
sag | Sango |
sah | Yakut |
| sas | Sasak |
| sat | Santali |
| scn | Sicilian |
| sco | Scots |
see | Seneca |
| sel | Selkup |
ser | Serrano |
| shn | Shan |
sht | Shasta |
| sid | Sidamo |
sin | Sinhala; Sinhalese |
| sio | Siouan languages |
sis | Sinuslaw |
| sit | Sino-Tibetal langauges |
sjw | Shawnee |
skd | Miwok, Southern Sierra |
| sla | Slavic languages |
slh | Salish, Southern Puget Sound |
slk | Slovak |
slv | Slovenian |
| sma | Southern Sami |
| sme | Northern Sami |
| smj | Lule Sami |
| smn | Inari Sami |
smo | Samoan |
| sms | Skolt Sami |
sna | Shona |
snd | Sindhi |
| snk | Soninke |
som | Somali |
| sot | Sotho, Southern |
spa | Spanish |
spo | Spokane |
sqi | Albanian |
srd | Sardinain |
| srn | Sranan Tongo |
srp | Serbian |
| srr | Serer |
| ssw | Swati |
str | Salish, Straits |
| suk | Sukuma |
sun | Sundanese |
sus | Susu |
| sux | Sumerian |
| swa | Swahili (macrolanguage) |
swc | Congo Swahili |
swe | Swedish |
swh | Swahili (individual language) |
| syc | Classical Syriac |
syr | Syriac |
tah | Tahitian |
tam | Tamil |
tat | Tatar |
tau | Upper Tanana |
tcb | Tanacross |
tdv | Toro |
tel | Telugu |
| tem | Timne |
| ter | Tereno |
| tet | Tetum |
tfn | Tanaina |
tgk | Tajik |
tgl | Tagalog |
tha | Thai |
| tig | Tigre |
til | Tilamook |
tir | Tigrinya |
| tiv | Tiv |
tix | Tiwa, Southern |
| tkl | Tokelau |
| tlh | Klingon, tlhIngan-Hol |
tli | Tlingit |
| tmh | Tamashek |
tog | Tonga (Nyasa) |
| ton | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
| tpi | Tok Pisin |
tpw | Tupi |
tqw | Tonkawa |
tsi | Tsimshian |
tsn | Tswana |
tso | Tsonga |
tuk | Turkmen |
| tum | Tumbuka |
| tup | Tupi languages |
tur | Turkish |
tus | Tuscarora |
| tut | Altaic languages |
| tvl | Tuvalu |
twa | Twana |
twf | Tiwa, Northern |
twi | Twi |
| tyv | Tuvinian |
udm | Udmurt |
| uga | Ugaritic |
| uig | Uighur, Uyghur |
ukr | Ukrainian |
| umb | Umbundu |
urd | Urdu |
uzb | Usbek |
| vai | Vai |
ven | Venda |
vie | Vietnamese |
vmv | Maidu, Valley |
| vot | Votic |
| wal | Wolaitta, Wolaytta |
wao | Wappo |
| war | Waray (Phillippines) |
was | Washo |
| wen | Sorbian languages |
wic | Wichita |
wiy | Wiyot |
| wln | Walloon |
wol | Wolof |
wya | Wyandot |
xal | Kalmyk |
xaw | Kawaiisu |
xho | Xhosa |
| yao | Yao |
yap | Yapese |
yaq | Yaqui |
yid | Yiddish |
yor | Yoruba |
yrk | Nenets |
yuc | Yuchi |
yue | Chinese, Yue |
yuk | Yuki |
yur | Yurok |
| zap | Zapotec |
zha | Chuang |
zlm | Malay (individual language) |
zul | Zulu |
| zun | Zuni |
| zxx | No linguistic content, Not applicable |
| zza | Zaza |
