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Language Codes (ECE)

A list of foreign Languages codes used in the Annual Early Childhood Education Child and Staff Return.


Alpha-3 Code Language
AFG Afghani
AFR Afrikaans
ALB Albanian
AMH Amharic
ARA Arabic
ARC Aramaic
ARM Armenian
ASS Assyrian
BAH Bahasa Malay
BEN Bengali
BUL Bulgarian
BUR Burmese
CAN Cantonese
CAT Catalan
CIM Cook Island Maori
CRO Croatian
CZE Czech
DUT Dutch
ENG English
ESP Esperanto
EGY Egyptian
PER Farsi (Persian)
FIJ Fijian
FIN Finnish
FRE French
GAE Gaelic
DEU German
GIL Gilbertese
GRE Greek
GUJ Gujerati
HAK Hakka
HEB Hebrew
HIN Hindi
HMO Hmong
HOK Hokkien
HUN Hungarian
IND Indonesian
IRA Iranian
ITA Italian
JPN Japanese
JAV Javanese
CAM Khmer
KOR Korean
KUR Kurdish
LAO Lao
LIT Lithuanian
MAY Malay
MAL Malayalam
MLT Maltese
MDR Mandarin
MAO Maori
NIU Niue
AFO Other African Language
CHI Other Chinese Language
EUR Other European language
MEL Other Middle East language
PIL Other Pacific Island language
SEA Other South-East Asian Lang
POL Polish
POR Portugese
PAN Punjabi
RAR Rarotongan
RUM Romanian
RUS Russian
SAO Samoan
SER Serbian
SNH Sinhalese
SLO Slovak
SLV Slovenian
SOM Somali
SPN Spanish
SWA Swahili
SWE Swedish
TAG Tagalog/Filipino
TAH Tahitian
TAM Tamil
TET Tetum (Timor)
THA Thai
TOK Tokelauan
TON Tongan
TUR Turkish
UKV Ukranian
URD Urdu
VIE Vietnamese
WEL Welsh
YID Yiddish

 

Related Education Counts Documents

Code Sets: lists of values used to code data items on the data collection forms.

Data Collections: a description of different data collections.

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