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Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement

Table I-1. Subcommittee Template: Comparison of Spoken Language Categories and Coding (continued)

Census Language Namea Census Codea ISO 639-3
Individual
languageb		 ISO 639-2
Individual
languageb		 ISO 639-1
Individual
languageb		 ISO Language
Nameb		 Other Names and
Additional Information		 Reported in the Census
2000c		 Kaiser
Permanente
Health Pland		 Contra
Costa
Health
Pland		 HRET
Hospital
Surveyf		 NACHC
Survey of
CHCsg		 Language
Line Useh		 NY
Presbyterian
Hospitale		 SFGHe UWe Sutter
Healthe
Jakartanese uncoded       Jakartanese             x        
Jamaican Creole 601 jam     Jamaican
Creole English		   x x                
Japanese 723 jpn jpn ja Japanese   x x x x x x x x x x
Javanese 736 jav jav jv Javanese   x   x     x        
Jicarilla 977 apj     Jicarilla
Apache		   x                  
Kachin 719 kac kac   Kachin   x                  
Kalispel 981 fla     Kalispel-Pend
d'Oreille		   x                  
Kan, Hsiang 710 hsn     Xiang Chinese Xiang, Hunan, Hsiang x         x        
Kanalese uncoded                 x            
Kanjobal/Kanjoval
(see Conjobal)		 968* kgb for
Kanjobal; knj for Kanjobal
Western		     Kanjobal         x            
Kannada 702 kan kan kn Kannada   x x x              
Kansa 910 ksk     Kansa Nearly extinct x                  
Karachay 688 krc krc   Karachay-
Balkar		   x                  
Karakalpak 685 kaa kaa   Kara-Kalpak   x                  
Karen 718   kar (16
other
specific
Karen
language
codes)		   Karen Languages   x         x        
Karok 887 kyh     Karok Nearly extinct x                  
Kashmiri 673 kas kas ks Kashmiri   x x x     x       x
Kashubian 643 csb csb   Kashubian   x                  
Kawaiisu 944 xaw     Kawaisu Nearly extinct x                  
Kazakh 686 kaz kaz kk Kazakh   x   x     x        
Keres 924 kee Keres
Eastern) kjq (Keres
Western)		     Keres   x x                
Keresan 924                              
Khmer 726 khm (Central
Khmer) kxm
(Northern
Khme		 khm km Khmer,
Central and
Northern)		     x x     x        
Khoisan 790   khi
(collective
language)		   Khoisan
(Other)		   x                  
Kickapoo 814 kic     Kickapoo   x                  
Kikuyu 792 kik kik ki Kikuyu                      
Kinyarwanda 792 kin kin rw Kinyarwanda     x x             x
Kiowa 863 kio     Kiowa   x                  
Kiowa-Apache 980 apk     Kiowa Apache Nearly extinct x                  
Kirghiz 687 kir kir ky Kirghiz   x   x     x        
Kirundi 792* run run rn Rundi     x x     x       x
Klamath 880 kla     Klamath-
Modoc		 Nearly extinct x                  
Koasati 919 cku     Koasati   x                  
Konkani 666 kok macro with 2 subs) kmn
(Konkani as an
individual
language)		                           x
Korean 724 kor kor ko Korean   x x x x x x x x x x
Kosovan uncoded                     x        
Kosraean (see
Kusaiean)		 754 kos kos   Kosraean                      
Koyukon 851 koy     Koyukon   x                  
Kpelle 793 kpe (macro
with 2 subs)		 kpe   Kpelle       x              
Krahn 796* kqo (Eastern
Krahn) krw
(Western
Krahn)		     Krahn             x        
Krio 602 kri     Krio   x         x        
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba 796   kro
(collective)		   Kru languages   x x                
Kuchin (see Gwichin) 852         Kutchin; Athabaschan
language		 x                  
Kurdish 658 kur (macro with 3 subs) kmr
(Northern
Kurdish)		 kur ku Kurdish   x x x x   x        
Kurmanji 658 kmr       Kurdi     x     x        
Kurukh 705 kru kru   Kurukh   x                  
Kusaiean (see
Kosraean)		 754       Kusaiean   x x                
Kutenai 828 kut kut   Kutenai Nearly extinct x                  
Kwakiutl 830 kwk     Kwakiutl   x                  
Ladino 627 lad lad   Ladino   x x                
Laguna (same code as Acoma) 924 kjq     Western Keres (dialect-
Laguna)		                      
Lakota 907 lkt     Lakota           x x        
Language Specified, Not Listed 983-998                              
Laotian 725 lao lao lo Lao   x x x x x x   x x x
Lapp 681 smn smn   Inari Sami   x                  
Latin coded as English lat lat la Latin                     x
Latvian (see Lettish) 654 lav lav lv Latvian     x x     x       x
Lebanese 777* apc     Northern
Levantine
Arabic		         x           x
Lenape 812         Extinct                    
Lettish (see Latvian) 654           x                  

Lingala

 792* lin lin ln Lingala     x x     x       x
Lithuanian 653 lit lit lt Lithuanian   x x x   x x x     x
Lower Chehalis 833 cea     Lower Chehalis Extinct x                  
Luganda 792 lug lug lg Ganda             x        
Luiseno 951 lui lui   Luiseno   x                  
Lummi 839 str     See Salish,
North Straits		                      
Luo 785 luo (Kenya and Tanzania) luw (Cameroon) luo   Luo                      
Lusatian 655 xls     Lusitanian   x         x        
Lusoga 792* xog     Soga                      
Luxembourgian 613 ltz ltz lb Luxemburgish Luxembourgeois x         x        
Maay 703* ymm     Maay       x     x        
Macedonian 648 mkd mkd/mac mk Macedonian   x x x x   x x   x  
Madurese 737 mad mad   Madurese   x                  
Maidu (see Mountain Maidu) 867 nmu
(Northeast)
vmv (Valley)		     Northeast
Maidu; Valley
Maidu		 Northeast Maidu- nearly
extinct; Valley Maidu - extinct		                    
Makah 829 myh     Makah Extinct x                  
Malagasy 738 mlg (macro
with 10 sub
languages)		 mlg mlg Malagasy   x   x     x        
Malay 739 msa (macro
with 13 subs)		   ms Malay   x x x x   x       x
Malayalam 703 mal mal ml Malayalam   x x x     x x     x
Maldivian 677 div div dv Maldivian                      
Maltese 777* mlt mlt mt Maltese       x     x        
Mam 968 mam     Mam         x            
Mandan 906 mhq     Mandan Nearly extinct x                  
Mandarin 712 cmn     Mandarin Chinese   x x   x x x x x x x
Mande 793           x x x              
Mandingo 793 man (macro
with 7 subs:
e.g., mnk
Mandinka)		 man   Mandingo Mandigo; Mandinka       x   x x   x  
Maori 774 mri (Maori) rar (Maori Cook
Islands)		 mri/mao
rar		 mi Maori   x   x              
Mapuche 970 arn arn   Mapuche   x                  
Marathi 666 mar mar mr Marathi   x x x     x       x
Marquesan 772 mrq
(Marquesan
North) mqm
(Marquesan
South)		     Marquesan   x                  
Marshallese 755 mah mah mh Marshallese   x x x x   x       x
Masai 786 mas mas   Masai                      
Maya 968 yua     Yucateca                      
Mayan Languages 968   myn
(collective)		   Mayan
Languages		   x x                
Mbum and Related 798 mdd     Mbum   x                  
Melanesian 765       Melanesian   x                  
Mende 793 men men   Mende (Sierra
Leone)		       x              
Mende 793 sim     Mende (Papua New Guinea)                      
Menomini 815 mez     Menominee Nearly extinct x                  
Mescalero Apache 978 apm     Mescalero-
Chiricahua
Apache		                      
Mesquakie 813 sac     Mesquaki                      
Mexican 625*       Mexican         x            
Mexicano 956                              

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