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Domain Message Specification

HumanLanguage

Code SystemId: 2.16.840.1.113883.2.1.3.2.4.17.70
Version: 4.0
Status: active
Date: 2007-11-30

Description

A language used by human beings. It includes languages that use any of the senses, e.g. sight and touch as well as sound. It is based on the ISO 639-1 two character language codes, plus five extensions required by NPfIT. These make use of the area reserved by ISO 639 for local use and include a digit to distinguish them from any current ISO 639-1 codes.

N.B. For CDA domains, use of codes q1 - q5 are prohibited.

Values

Code Description Note
q1 Braille

For people who are unable to see

q2 American Sign Language
q3 Australian.Sign Language
q4 British Sign Language
q5 Makaton

Devised for children and adults with a variety of communication and learning disabilities.

aa Afar
ab Abkhazian
af Afrikaans
ak Akan
sq Albanian
am Amharic
ar Arabic
an Aragonese
hy Armenian
as Assamese
av Avaric
ae Avestan
ay Aymara
az Azerbaijani
ba Bashkir
bm Bambara
eu Basque
be Belarusian
bn Bengali
bh Bihari
bi Bislama
bo Tibetan
bs Bosnian
br Breton
bg Bulgarian
my Burmese
ca Catalan; Valencian
cs Czech
ch Chamorro
ce Chechen
zh Chinese
cu Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic
cv Chuvash
kw Cornish
co Corsican
cr Cree
cy Welsh
da Danish
de German
dv Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian
nl Dutch; Flemish
dz Dzongkha
el Greek, Modern (1453-)
en English
eo Esperanto
et Estonian
ee Ewe
fo Faroese
fa Persian
fj Fijian
fi Finnish
fr French
fy Western Frisian
ff Fulah
ka Georgian
gd Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic
ga Irish
gl Galician
gv Manx
gn Guarani
gu Gujarati
ht Haitian; Haitian Creole
ha Hausa
he Hebrew
hz Herero
hi Hindi
ho Hiri Motu
hr Croatian
hu Hungarian
ig Igbo
is Icelandic
io Ido
ii Sichuan Yi
iu Inuktitut
ie Interlingue
ia Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
id Indonesian
ik Inupiaq
it Italian
jv Javanese
ja Japanese
kl Kalaallisut; Greenlandic
kn Kannada
ks Kashmiri
kr Kanuri
kk Kazakh
km Central Khmer
ki Kikuyu; Gikuyu
rw Kinyarwanda
ky Kirghiz; Kyrgyz
kv Komi
kg Kongo
ko Korean
kj Kuanyama; Kwanyama
ku Kurdish
lo Lao
la Latin
lv Latvian
li Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish
ln Lingala
lt Lithuanian
lb Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch
lu Luba-Katanga
lg Ganda
mk Macedonian
mh Marshallese
ml Malayalam
mi Maori
mr Marathi
ms Malay
mg Malagasy
mt Maltese
mo Moldavian
mn Mongolian
na Nauru
nv Navajo; Navaho
nr Ndebele, South; South Ndebele
nd Ndebele, North; North Ndebele
ng Ndonga
ne Nepali
nn Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian
nb Bokmal, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmal
no Norwegian
ny Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja
oc Occitan (post1500); Provencal
oj Ojibwa
or Oriya
om Oromo
os Ossetian; Ossetic
pa Panjabi; Punjabi
pi Pali
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
ps Pushto
qu Quechua
rm Romansh
ro Romanian
rn Rundi
ru Russian
sg Sango
sa Sanskrit
sr Serbian
si Sinhala; Sinhalese
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
se Northern Sami
sm Samoan
sn Shona
sd Sindhi
so Somali
st Sotho, Southern
es Spanish; Castilian
sc Sardinian
ss Swati
su Sundanese
sw Swahili
sv Swedish
ty Tahitian
ta Tamil
tt Tatar
te Telugu
tg Tajik
tl Tagalog
th Thai
ti Tigrinya
to Tonga (Tonga Islands)
tn Tswana
ts Tsonga
tk Turkmen
tr Turkish
tw Twi
ug Uighur; Uyghur
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek
ve Venda
vi Vietnamese
vo Volapuk
wa Walloon
wo Wolof
xh Xhosa
yi Yiddish
yo Yoruba
za Zhuang; Chuang
zu Zulu