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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
Miami 817 mia     Miami Extinct x                  
Miao, Hmong 722 7 different subs of Hmong
(hmn) 20
specific Miao named
languages		     Miao, Hmong         x x x   x x x
Miao-Yao, Mien 721       Miao-Yao, Mien   x x   x x x   x   x
Miccosukee 917 mik     Mikasuki                      
Micmac 818 mic mic   Micmic   x                  
Micronesian 750           x x   x            
Mien 721 ium     lu Mien Yiu Mien, Ban Yao   x x              
MIkasuki 917 mik     Mikasuki   x                  
Min (the 708 code
differentiates from Min Nan)		 708 mnp Min Bei
Chinese cdo
Min Dong
Chinese nan Min Nan
Chinese czo
Min Zhong
Chinese		     Min dialects                      
Min Nan 714 nan (sub of
Chinese with dialects without codes): Hokkien		     Min Nan Minnan, including
Taiwanese		           x        
Mina uncoded hna     Mina
(Cameroon)		                      
Mina uncoded myi     Mina (India)                      
Minangkabau 740 min min   Minangkabau   x                 x
Mirpuri 665       Mirpuri             x        
Miskito (see Misumalpan) 967 miq cai (central
American
Indian
collective
code)		   Miskito                      
Misumalpan (see Miskito) 967           x                  
Mitchif (see French Cree) 816 crg     Michif                      
Miwok 872         Central Sierra Miwok, Northern Sierra Miwok,
Lake Miwok—nearly extinct; Bay Miwok— extinct		                    
Mixtec 971 52 separate
individual
languages with no macro or
collective
category		     Mixtec (Mixteco,
Mixtex, Mexico)		     x xx
2 types		 x x x x      
Miytero uncoded                 x            
Modoc (see Klamath Modoc) 880 kla     Klamath-
Modoc		 Nearly extinct                    
Mohave 893 mov     Mohave   x                  
Mohawk 926 moh moh   Mohawk   x                  
Mokilese 756 mkj     Mokilese   x                  
Moldovan (Romanian
dialect)		 631* ron ron/rum ro Moldovan
(Romanian
dialect)		     x x x   x       x
Moluccan 731 max (Northern
Maluku) alo
Larike-
Wakasilu		     Maluku   x                  
Mongolian 694 mon (macro
with 2 subs)		 mon mn Mongolian   x x x x   x        
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian 726   mkh
(collective)		   Mon-Khmer
(Other)		   x x   x x x x x x x
Mono 939         Nearly extinct x                  
Montenegrin 651* srp     Serbian South Slavic           x        
Mordvin 683 myv myv   Erzya                      
Mortlockese 757 mrl     Mortlockese   x                  
Mountain Maidu (see Maidu) 867       (see Northeast
Maidu)		   x                  
Muckleshoot (see Puget Sound Salish) 842                              
Munda 706 unx (Munda as individual
language)		 mun
(collective)		   Munda   x                  
Muong 729 mtq     Muong   x                  
Muskogee (see Creek) 920 mus     Creek (Muskogee)   x                  
Nahuatl 956 28 individual
languages with codes		 nah
(collective)		   Nahuatl                      
Native American Indian 966*                              
Nauruan 758 nau nau na Nauru   x                 x
Navaho 864 nav nav nv Navaho/
Navajo		       x x   x        
Navajo 864 nav nav nv Navajo   x x                
Ndebele 792 nde (North) nbl (South) nde (North) nbl (South) nd (North) nr (South) Ndebele                      
Neapolitan uncoded nap nap   Neapolitan             x        
Nepali 674 nep nep ne Nepali Nepalese x x x x   x     x x
Nez Perce 881 nez     Nez Perce   x                  
Nigerian 796 mzk (Mabile)
fuv (Fulfulde)		     Nigerian                      
Nigerian Pidgin English 796/604* pcm     Nigerian Pidgin             x        
Nilo-Hamitic (see other languages
coded 786)		 786           x                  
Nilo-Saharan 789   ssa
(collective)		   Nilo-Saharan
(Other)		   x                  
Nilotic (see other languages coded 785) 785           x                  

Nisqualli (see Puget Sound Salish)

 842                              
Niuean 769 niu niu   Niuean   x                  
Nomlaki 873 wit     Wintu   x                  
Nootka 831-832 noo     Nootka   x                 x
Nootsack 840         Extinct x                 x
Northern Paiute 941 pao     Northern Paiute   x                  
Northwest Maidu (see Concow) 869         Nearly extinct x                  
Norwegian 616 nor (macro with 2 subs) nor no Norwegian   x x x x   x     x x
Norwegian Bokmal 616 nob nob nb Norwegian Bokmal                     x
Norwegian Nynorsk 616 nno nno nn Norwegian Nynorsk                     x
Not Reported 999                              
Nubian 787   nub
(collective)		   Nubian
Languages		   x                  
Nuer 785 nus     Nuer       x     x        
Nukuoro 775 nkr     Nukuoro   x                  
Occitan 621* oci oci oc Occitan     x x             x
Oglala 907       see Lakota                      
Ojibwa 819 oji (macro with 7 subs) oji oj Ojibwa Ojibway x         x        
Okanogan 841 oka     Okanagan   x                  
Omaha 911 oma     Omaha-Ponca   x                  
Oneida 927 one     Oneida   x                  
Onondaga 928 ono     Onondaga   x                  
Oriya 670 ori ori or Oriya   x x x             x
Oromo 783 orm (macro
with 4 subs)		 or om Oromo     x x x   x        
Osage 912 osa osa   Osage Nearly extinct x                  
Ossete 661 oss oss os Ossetian,
Ossetic		   x                  
Otham 954* stp     possibly
Tephuan,
Southeastern		           x          
Other African languages composite                   x          
Other and unspecified
languages		 999         Miscellaneous x                 x
Other Athapascan-Eyak Languages 861                              
Other Indic languages composite           x                  
Other Indo-European
languages		 composite           x                  
Other language composite                         x x x
Other Native North
American languages		 composite           x                  
Other Slavic
languages		 composite           x                  
Other specified
languages		             x                  
Other West Germanic
languages		 composite           x                  
Oto-Manguen 971   oto
(collective)		   Oto-Manguen   x                  
Otomi 971 otm (Eastern
Highland) ots (Estado de Mexico), otz Ixtenco , ote Mezquital), otq
(Queretano),
ott (Temoaya),
otx
(Texcatepec),
otl (Tilapa)		 oto
(collective)		   Otomi (9
individual
languages)		                      
Ottawa 820 otw     Ottawa   x                  

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