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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
Slavic 649   sla   Slavic (Other)                     x
Slovak 646 slk slk/slo sk Slovak   x x x     x       x
Slovene 652 slv slv sl Slovenian   x   x     x        
Sogdian 689* sog sog   Sogdian                     x
Somali 783 som som so Somali     x x x x x x     x
Songhai 789   son   Songhai
languages		     x               x
Soninke 793* snk snk   Soninke     x         x     x
Sonoran (n.e.c.) 957-958           x                  
Sorani 658* ckb     Central Kurdish             x        
Sorbian languages 644* hsb (Upper
Sorbian) dsb
(Lower)		 wen
(collective)
hsb (Upper)
dsb
(Lower)		   Sorbian
languages		     xx
2 types		               x
South American
Indian (Other)		     sai
(collective)		   South
American
Indian (Other)		                     x
Southern Maidu 869 nsz     Nisenan Nearly extinct x                  
Southern Paiute (different code than Ute) 942 ute     (coded same as Ute- Southern
Paiute)		   x                  
Spanish 625 spa spa es Spanish   x x x x x x x x x x
Spokane 982 spo     Spokane   x                  
Sudanic 784           x                  
Sundanese 741 sun
(Sudanese)
apd (Sudanese
Arabic) pga
(Sudanese
Creole Arabic)		 sun su Sudanese Sudanese/Nuer-
Sudanese Sudanese
Arabic		 x   x x x x       x
Sundanese 740                              
Suquamish 842 squ     Suquamish                      
Swahili 791 swa (macro
with 2 ubs)
swh (swahili as an individual
language)		 swa (macro) sw Swahili   x x x x x x       x
Swedish 614 swe swe sw Swedish   x x x     x     x x
Swiss 607 gsw gsw   Swiss German                      
Sylhetti 664* syl     Sylheti             x        
Syriac 779 syr (macro
language with
Assyrian and
Chaldean Neo
Aramaic)		 syr   Syriac   x                  
Tachi (different code from Foothill North
Yokuts)		 877 yok     Yokuts (single code; see also
Foothill North
Yokuts)		 Valley Yokuts x                  
Tadzhik (distinguished from Tajik) 660       Tadzhik (does not appear to be
distinguished
from Tajik)		   x                  
Tagalog 742 tgl tgl tl Tagalog   x x x x x x x x x x
Tahitian 772 tah tah ty Tahitian                      
Taiwanese (see Min Nan) 714 dialect of
Hokkien then of Min Nan		     Taiwanese Tawainese; Tiawanese   x   x   x     x x
Tajik 656* tgk tgk tg Tajik       x     x        
Tamil 704 tam tam ta Tamil   x x x x   x       x
Tanacross 856 tcb     Tanacross Nearly extinct x                  
Tanaina 854 tfn     Tanaina Nearly extinct x                  
Tanana 855 taa (Upper) tau (Lower)     Tanana Lower Tanana - nearly extinct x                  
Taos (see also Picuris) 959 twf     Northern Tiwa (Taos is
dialect of)		                      
Tarahumara 957 tar (Central),
tac (Lowland),
thh (Northern),
tcu
(Southeastern),
twr
(Southwestern)		     Tarahumara                      
Tarascan 969 tsz (Purepecha)
pua (Western
Highland
Purepecha)		     Purepecha   x   x              
Tatar 688 tat (Tatar) crh
(Crimean
Tartar)		 tat chr tt Tatar     x x             x
Teluga 701*                             x
Telugu 701 tel tel te Telegu Telegu x x x x   x        
Temne 794 tem     Timne Themne                    
Teochau uncoded         Teochew (related to
Southern Min)		               x    
Tewa (Hopi-Tewa) 962 Twe (Indonesia) Tew (USA)     Tewa   x                  
Thai 720 tha tha th Thai   x x x x x x   x x x
Tibetan 716 bod bod/tib bo Tibetan   x x x x   x     x x
Tigre 780* tig   tig Tigre             x        
Tigrigna 780 tir tir ti Tigrinya Tigrinian; Tigrigna; Tigrinya   x x x   x x     x
Tillamook 844 til     Tillamook Extinct x                  
Tiwa 960 lax     Tiwa   x                  
Tlingit 866 tli tli   Tlingit   x                  
Tohono O'Odham 954 ood     Tohano O'Odham Tohono Odam       x            
Toishan 711         Taishanese (dialect of
Cantonese, but
understood only with great difficulty by
Cantonese speakers;
Toishanese, Toisan, Toishan, Toisanese		           x   x   x
Tokelauan 770 tkl tkl   Tokelau   x                  
Tonga 792 tog tog   Tonga [African
Nyasa]		     x                
Tongan 768 ton ton to Tonga [Tonga
Islands]		 Tonganese x x x x   x       x
Tonkawa 902 tqw     Tonkawa Extinct x                  
Towa 963 tow     Jemez Walatowa x                  
Trique 971 trc (Trique of
San Juan
Copala), trs
(Trique,
Chicahuaxtla),
trq (triqui,
Itunxosa)		               x            
Trukese 761 chk chk   Chuukese Trukee x     x            
Tshiluba 792* lua lua   Luba-Lulua             x        
Tsimshian 884 tsi tsi   Tsimshian   x x               x
Tsonga 792* tso tso ts Tsonga     x x             x
Tubatulabal 953 tub     Tubatulabal Nearly extinct x                  
Tulu 698 tul     Tulu                      
Tungus 695 tuw (ISO-639-5)     Tungusic
languages		   x                  
Tupi-Guarani 976   tup
(collective)		   Tupi Languages
(about 70
languages in
S. America;
Tupi-Guarani
is of the best
known)		   x                  
Turkish 691 tur tur tr Turkish   x x x x   x x x x x
Turkmen 692 tuk tuk tk Turkmen   x x x             x
Tuscarora 931 tus     Tuscarora Nearly extinct x                  
Tutchone 858 ttm (Northern)
tce (Southern)		     Northern and
Southern
Tutchone		   x                  
Twana 845         Extinct x                  
Twi 796 twi twi tw Twi (sub of
macro Akan)		     x x x x x       x
Uighur 689 uig uig ug Uighur   x   x              
Ukrainian 641 ukr ukr uk Ukrainian   x x x x x x x   x x
Ulithean 762 uli     Ulithian   x                  
Umatilla 882 uma     Umatilla                      
Up River Yuman 891 mov     Mohave Yuman (Upriver), River Yuman x                  
Upland Yuman 897 yuf     Havasupai-
Walapai-
Yavapai		 Upper Colorado Yuman x                  
Upper Chehalis 834 chj     Upper Chehalis Upper Chehalis; extinct x                  
Upper Chinook (see Wasco) 883 wac     Wasco-
Wishram		   x                  
Upper Kuskokwim 853 kuu     Upper
Kuskokwim		 Nearly extinct x                  
Upper Tanana 857 tau     Upper Tanana   x                  
Uralic Languages, Other 683           x                  
Urdu 671 urd urd ur Urdu Urdu-Pakistan x x x x x x x   x x
Ute 945 ute     Ute (Southern
Paiute)		   x                  
Ubzek 689 uzb (macro
with 2 subs)		 uzb uz Uzbek       x     x        
Vietnamese 728 vie vie vi Vietnamese   x x x x x x x x x x
Visayan 743 ceb     Cebuano Bisayan (has a separate code), Sebuano                    
Volapuk uncoded vol vol vo Volapuk Volapuk                   x
Walapai 899 yuf     Havasupai-
Walapai-
Yavapai		   x                  
Wappo 923 wao     Wappo Extinct x                  
Warm Springs 882 tqn     Tenino                      
Wasco 883 wac     Wasco-
Wishram		                      
Washo 890 was was   Washo Nearly extinct x                  
Welsh 633 cym cym/wel cy Welsh   x   x     x        
Wenatchee 837 col     Columbia-
Wenatchi		                      

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