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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
Pachuco 628           x                  
Pacific Gulf Yupik 801 ems     Pacific Gulf
Yupik (see
Yupik for other
languages)		   x                  
Pahari 665* kfx (Kulla) pfz
(Mahasu) phr (Potwari)		     Pahari                      
Paiute 940 pao     Northern
Paiute (see
Ute-Southern
Paiute below)		   x                  
Pakistan, nec 676           x     x x   x      
Palau 759 pau pau   Paluan   x x                
Paleo-siberian 804*           x                  
Pampangan 748 pam pam   Pampanga   x x       x        
Panamint 947 par       Nearly extinct x                  
Pangasinan 745 pag   pag Pangasinan   x         x        
Panuabi 665 pan pan pa Panjabi   x x x   x x       x
Papago 954 ood     see Tohon
O'odham		                      
Papia Mentae 630 pap pap   Papiamento   x                  
Pashto 657 pst (Central)
pbt (Southern)
pbu (Northern)		     Pashto   x x x     x       x
Passamaquoddy 821 pqm     Malecite-
Passama-
quoddy		   x                  
Patois 622 gcf
(Guadeloupean
Creole French),
jam (Jamaican
Creole), gcr
(Guianese
Creole French		     Patois (several
options)		   x x       x        
Patwin (dialect of
Wintu but Wintu has different code)		 874           x                  
Pawnee 936 paw     Pawnee Nearly extinct x                  
Pennsylvania Dutch 608 pdc     Pennsylvania German Pennsylvania Dutch, Amish, Amish-German x x   x            
Penobscot 822         Extinct x                  
Persian 656 fas (macro with
2 subs: prs
Dari Persian
and pes
Western
Persian)		   fa Persian   x     x       x    
Philippine Other 742       Philippine Other                     x
Picuris (see Taos and separate code for Tiwa) 959           x                  
Pidgin 604 cpi (Pidgin
English,
Chinese), wes
(Pidgin
Cameroon),
pcm (Pidgin,
Nigerian), tvy
(Pidgin Timor),
dep (Pidgin
Delaware)		     multiple types
of Pidgin		 Delaware Pidgin—extinct x                  
Pima 954 pia     Pima Bajo   x                  
Pit River (see
Achumawi)		 885       (see
Achumawi)		                      
Plains Miwok 871 pmw     Plains Miwok Nearly extinct x                  
Polish 645 pol pol pl Polish   x x x x x x x x x x
Polynesian 766       Polynesian   x                  
Pomo 888 pmm (pomo)       Central Pomo,
Southeastern Pomo,
Southern Pomo—nearly
extinct; Eastern Pomo,
Northeastern Pomo,
Northern—extinct		 x                  
Ponapean 760 pon pon   Pohnpeian   x x                
Ponca (see Omaha but different code) 913 oma     Omaha-Ponca (both
languages
given same code)		   x                  
Portuguese 629 por por pt Portuguese   x x x x x x x x x x
Portuguese Creole 629   cpp   Portuguese-based
Creoles and Pidgins (other)		   x         x        
Potawatomi 824 pot     Potawatomi   x                  
Provencal 621 frp     Franco-
Provencal		   x x                
Puget Sound Salish 842 slh (South
Puget Sound)
str (Straits)		     Puget Sound Salish, Southern   x                  
Pular 794 fuf     Pular                   x  
Punjabi 665 pan pan pa Punjabi     x                
Pushto 656 pus (macro with 3 sub
Pashto
languages)		 pus ps Pushto       x              
Puyallup (see Puget Sound Salish) 842       (See Puget
Sound Salish,
Southern)		                      
Quapaw 914 qua     Quapaw Nearly extinct x                  
Quechan 894 yum     Quechan   x x x             x
Quechua 972 que (macro with 44 subs of
Quechua or
Quichua)		 que qu Quechua                      
Quiche 968 quc     Quiche         x   x        
Quileute 830 qui     Quileute Quileute; Nearly extinct                    
Quinault 843 qun     Quinault Extinct x                  
Rajasthani 669 raj (macro with
6 subs)		 raj   Rajasthani   x                  
Rarotongan 773 rar rar   Rarotongan   x                  
Rhaeto-Romanic 632     rm Rhaeto-
Romanic		   x   x              
Romanian 631 ron ron/rum ro Romanian
(See below)		 Romanian x   x x x x x     x
Romansch 632 roh roh rm Romansch Romance;
Romany; Romansch		                   x
Romany 678 rom (macro
with 7 subs of
Romany or
Romani)		     Romany see
above too		   x                  
Rumanian 631 ron ron/rum ro Romanian                      
Russian 639 rus rus ru Russian   x x x x x x x x x x
Sahaptian (close to Nez Perce and
Klamath)		 882           x                  
Saharan 788           x                  
Saint Lawrence Island Yupik 804 ess     Central Siberian Yupik   x                  
Salish 839 slh (South
Puget Sound)
str (Straits)		     Salish Salish; Straits Salish— nearly extinct                    
Samoan 767 smo smo sm Samoan   x x x x x x   x   x
Samoyed (see other Uralic languages) 683       multiple languages
(Uralic and
Samoyed roots like Enets, Forest
enf and Enets,
Tundra enh)		                      
San Carlos 979 apw     Apache, Western
(differs from
other Apache codes)		   x                  
San Carlos Apache
(different code than Apache)		 979 apw     Apache, Western
(differs from
other Apache codes)		                      
San Juan 962 poe (S.J. Atzingo
Popoloca), mjc
(S.J. Colorado
Mixtec), zab
(S.J. Guelavia
Zapoteca), xtz
(S. J. Teita
Mixtec)		     San Juan (multiple languages)                      
Sandia (different code than Isleta) 961           x                  
Sango 798* sag sag sg Sango     x               x
Sanskrit 662 san san sa Sanskrit                     x
Santa Clara (dialect of Tewa) 962                              
Santiam 878 kyl     Kalapuya Nearly extinct x                  
Saramacca 606 srm     Saramaccan   x                  
Scandinavian
languages		 composite         Scandinavian
languages		 x                  
Scottic Gaelic 636 sco (Scots) gla
(Scottish Gaelic)		 sco gla gd
(Scottish
Gaelic)		 Scots; Scottic
Gaelic;		 Scotish; Scottic Gaelic; x   x             x
Sebuano 744 ceb ceb   Cebuano   x                  
Seminole 920                              
Seneca 930 see     Seneca   x                  
Serbian 651 srp srp/scc sr Serbian   x x x x   x x   x x
Serbocroatian 649 hbs (macro
with 3 subs:
bos Bosnian,
hrv Croatian,
srp Serbian)		   sh Serbo-Croatian   x       x   x x x  
Serokoli uncoded         Serokola             x      
Serrano 952 ser     Serrano Nearly extinct x                  
Sesotho 792* sot (Southern)
nso (Northern)		 sot nso st Sotho     x x             x
Setswana 792* tsn tsn tn Tswana     x x             x
Shanghainese 715 wuu (sub of
Chinese with
own code)		     Wu Chinese     x x   x x       x
Shastan 889 sht     Shasta Extinct x                  
Shawnee 825 sjw     Shawnee   x                  
Shona 792 sna sna sn Shona     x x     x       x
Shoshoni 946 shh     Shoshoni   x                  
Siberian Languages, nec 727                              
Siberian Yupik 804 ess    

Central Siberian Yupik

                      
Sicilian 619* scn scn   Sicilian             x        
Sierra Miwok 872 skd     Southern
Sierra Miwok		 Nearly extinct x                  
Sindhi 675 snd snd sd Sindhi   x   x     x        
Sinhalese 677 sin sin si Sinhalese/
Sinhala		   x x x x   x        
Sioux 907   sio
(collective)		   Siouan
Languages		                      
Siuslaw 897 sis     Siuslaw Extinct x                  

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