The range of languages that you see in the Languages menu reflects some of the amazing diversity of the world’s languages!
Our system is in line with the ISO (International Standards Organization) standard 639-3 set of language codes in order to cover the world’s languages as completely and consistently as possible. The source of the codes is www.iso639-3.sil.org.
In some cases, the names used by ISO might not match exactly to the names you normally use for your languages. It’s also possible that the name shown may be more specific or less specific than how you would normally describe it. For instance, although “Arabic” is often considered to be one language, ISO 639-3 uses “Arabic” to mean a category containing individual languages like “Gulf Arabic”, “Moroccan Arabic”, and “Standard Arabic”. If your language does not appear in the list where you expect it to, and you cannot find it by typing the first few letters of possible names, try looking for a major category like “Arabic” or “Chinese” and select the most specific language which applies to you. If you still cannot find it, it may have a different name in the system than the one you expect – if you search the common name in the ISO 639-3 database, you should be able to find the name used in Appen Connect.
Sometimes, a specific language includes “Standard” in the name – for example, “Standard Malay”. This usually means that it is the form of the language that is spoken in a major city, or it is the language used in the media or government. Quite often, people will speak both the Standard variety and another form. If this is the case for you, please add all of the specific forms which you speak.
To help you identify which category your languages might fall under, we’ve listed the sets we use in the table below. For more information about these categories, please see https://iso639-3.sil.org/about/scope#Macrolanguages.
| Category | Individual Language Name |
| Albanian | Arbëreshë Albanian, Arvanitika Albanian, Gheg Albanian, Tosk Albanian |
| Arabic | Standard Arabic, Algerian Arabic, Algerian Saharan Arabic, Babalia Creole Arabic, Baharna Arabic, Chadian Arabic, Cypriot Arabic, Dhofari Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic, Hadrami Arabic, Hijazi Arabic, Libyan Arabic, Mesopotamian Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Najdi Arabic, North Levantine Arabic, North Mesopotamian Arabic, Omani Arabic, Saidi Arabic, Sanaani Arabic, Shihhi Arabic, South Levantine Arabic, Sudanese Arabic, Sudanese Creole Arabic, Ta’izzi-Adeni Arabic, Tajiki Arabic, Tunisian Arabic, Uzbeki Arabic |
| Chinese | Gan Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Jinyu Chinese, Literary Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Min Dong Chinese, Min Nan Chinese, Wu Chinese, Xiang Chinese, Yue Chinese |
| Estonian | Standard Estonian, Võro |
| Latvian | Latgalian, Standard Latvian |
| Malagasy | Antankarana Malagasy , Bara Malagasy, Southern Betsimisaraka Malagasy, Northern Betsimisaraka Malagasy, Masikoro Malagasy, Plateau Malagasy, Tesaka Malagasy |
| Malay | Bacanese Malay, Bangka, Banjar, Berau Malay, Brunei, Bukit Malay, Central Malay, Cocos Islands Malay, Col, Duano, Haji, Jakun, Jambi Malay, Kaur, Kedah Malay, Kerinci, Kota Bangun Kutai Malay, Kubu, Loncong, Lubu, Malay (individual language), Manado Malay, Minangkabau, Musi, Negeri Sembilan Malay, North Moluccan Malay, Orang Kanaq, Orang Seletar, Pattani Malay, Pekal, Sabah Malay, Standard Malay, Temuan, Tenggarong Kutai Malay, Urak Lawoi’ |
| Nepali | Dotyali, Nepali (individual language) |
| Norwegian | Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk |
| Persian | Dari, Iranian Persian |
| Swahili | Congo Swahili, Swahili |
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