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MNCAT Language Abbreviations

Word
Abbreviation
Achinese ace.
Afrikaans afr
Akan aka
Akkadian akk
Albanian alb
Aleut ale
Algonquian languages alg
Amharic amh
Anglo-Saxon(ca. 600-1100) ang
Arabic ara
Aramaic arc.
Armenian arm
Araucanian arn
Arawak arw
Assamese asm
Austronesian map
Avaric ava
Avesta ave
Awadhi awa
Aymara aym
Azerbaijani aze
Baluchi bal
Bambara bam
Balinese ban
Basque baq
Belorussian bel
Bemba bem
Bengali ben
Berber languages ber
Bhojpuri bho
Blackfoot bla
Braj bra
Breton bre
Bulgarian bul
Burmese bur
Cental American Indian (Other) cai
Cambodian cam
Catalan cat
Cebuano ceb
Chechen che
Chagatai chg
Chinese chi
Chinook Jargon chn
Choctaw cho
Cherokee chr
Church Slavic chu
Chuvash chv
Coptic cop
Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (other) cpe
Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (other) cpf
Creoles and Pidgins, Portuguese-based (other) cpp
Cree cre
Creoles and Pidgins crp
Cushitic (Other) cus
Czech cze
Dakota dak
Danish dan
Delaware del
Dinka din
Dogri doi
Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) dum
Dutch dut
Dyula dyu
Egyptian egy
English eng
English, Middle (ca. 1100-1500) enm
Eskimo esk
Esperanto esp
Estonian est
Ethiopic eth
Faroese far
Finnish fin
Finno-Ugrian fiu
French fre
Frisian fri
French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600) frm
French, Old (ca. 842-1400) fro
Gaelic (Scots) gae
Gallegan gag
Galla gal
Germanic (Other) gem
Georgian geo
German ger
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) gmh
German, Old High (ca. 750-1050) goh
Gothic got
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) grc
Greek, Modern (1453- ) gre
Guarani gua
Gujarati guj
Hausa hau
Hawaiian haw
Hebrew heb
Herero her
Himachali him
Hindi hin
Hungarian hun
Icelandic ice
Indic (Other) inc
Indonesian ind
Indo-European (Other) ine
Interlingua int
Iranian (Other) ira
Irish iri
Italian ita
Javanese jav
Japanese jpn
Judaeo-Persian jpr
Judaeo-Arabic jrb
Kannada kan
Karen kar
Kazakh kaz
Khasi kha
Khoisan (Other) khi
Kikuyu kik
Kinyarwanda kin
Kirghiz kir
Konkani kok
Kongo kon
Korean kor
Kurukh kru
Kurdish kur
Ladino lad
Langue d'oc (post 1500) lan
Lao lao
Lapp lap
Latin lat
Latvian lav
Lithuanian lit
Luganda lug
Macedonian mac
Madurese mad
Magahi mag
Maithili mai
Malayalam mal
Mandingo man
Maori mao
Marathi mar
Malay may
Miscellaneous mis
Mon Khmer (Other) mkh
Malagasy mla
Mohawk moh
Mongo lol
Mongol mon
Multilingual mul
Muskogee mus
Marwari mwr
Mayan languages myn
Nahuatlan nah
North American Indian (Other) nai
Navajo nav
Nepali nep
Newari new
Niger-Kordofanian (Other) nic
Nilo-Saharan (Other) ssa
Norwegian nor
Nubian nub
Ojibwa oji
Oriya ori
Ottoman Turkish ota
Otomian languages oto
Papuan-Australian (Other) paa
Pahlavi pal
Panjabi pan
Palauan pau
Persian, Modern per
Pali pli
Polish pol
Portuguese por
Prakrit pra
Provencal (to 1500) pro
Pushto pus
Quechua que
Rajasthani raj
Romance (Other) roa
Rhaeto-Romance roh
Romany rom
Romanian rum
Russian rus
South American Indian (Other) sai
Samaritan Aramaic sam
Sanskrit san
Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) scc
Scots sco
Serbo-Croatian (Roman) scr
Selkup sel
Shona sho
Siouan languages sio
Sino-Tibetan (Other) sit
Slavic (Other) sla
Slovak slo
Slovenian slv
Sindhi snd
Sinhalese snh
Sogdian sog
Spanish spa
Southern Sotho sso
Sumerian sux
Swahili swa
Swedish swe
Syriac syr
Tagalog tag
Tajik taj
Tamil tam
Telugu tel
Tereno ter
Tibetan tib
Tigre tig
Tswana tsw
Turkish tur
Turko-Tataric (Other) tut
Uigur uig
Ukrainian ukr
Undetermined ... und
Urdu urd
Uzbek uzb
Vietnamese vie
Walamo wal
Welsh wel
Wendic wen
Wolof wol
Xhosa xho
Yiddish yid
Yoruba yor
Zapotec zap
Zulu zul

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