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Akkadian
The ancient Akkadian language, rendered in its traditional writing system (i.e., cuneiform).

Albanian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: alb)

Arabic
The Arabic language, rendered in its standard writing system.

Arabic (Algerian)
The Arabic language as spoken and written in Algeria (as distinct from Modern Standard Arabic)

Arabic (Egyptian)
The Arabic language as spoken and written in Egypt (as distinct from Modern Standard Arabic)

Arabic (Libyan)
The Arabic language as spoken and written in Libya (as distinct from Modern Standard Arabic)

Arabic (Mesopotamian)
The Arabic language as spoken and written in Mesopotamia (as distinct from Modern Standard Arabic)

Arabic (Modern Standard)
Standard Arabic in its regular script as defined by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic.

Arabic (Moroccan)
The Arabic language as spoken and written in Morocco (as distinct from Modern Standard Arabic)

Arabic (Tunisian)
The Arabic language as spoken and written in Tunisia (as distinct from modern Standard Arabic)

Arabic Dialect (from GANE)
A non-standard language code that came in with TAVO+GANE data. It should not be reused on new content items.

Aramaic
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ara)

Armenian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: arm)

Assyrian (dialect of Akkadian)
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ass)

Avestan
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: av)

Azerbaijani (in Arabic script)
The Azerbaijani language, rendered in the Arabic writing system, as defined by the IANA language subtag registry.

Azerbaijani (in Cyrillic)
The Azerbaijani language, written in the Cyrillic writing system, as defined by the IANA language subtag registry.

Azerbaijani (in Latin script)
The Azerbaijani language, written in the Latin writing system, as defined by the IANA language subtag registry.

Babylonian (dialect of Akkadian)
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ba)

Bulgarian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: bu)

Canaanite
From LINGUIST list (TAVO abbrev: ka)

Catalan
The Catalan (Valencian) language, written in Latin script, as registered in the IANA Language Subtag Registry

Chinese
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ch)

Church Slavic
The Church Slavic language, also known as (Old) Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, or Old Bulgarian as defined in the IANA Language Subtag Registry, rendered in its standard writing system.

Coptic
The Coptic language, rendered in its standard writing system.

Corsican
The Corsican language, written in the Latin writing system.

Crimean Tatar
The Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish) language.

Croatian
The modern Croatian language, rendered in its customary Roman script.

Dutch
The Dutch language, rendered in its standard writing system

Eblan
The ancient Eblaite language as defined by the IANA Language Subtag Registry.

Egyptian (Ancient)
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: äg)

Elamite
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: el)

English
The English language, rendered in its standard writing system.

Ethiopian (Geez, Amharic)
From LINGUIST list (TAVO abbrev: äth)

Etruscan
The Etruscan language, written in Old Italic script.

Etruscan (in Latin characters)
Attested from ca. 700 BC to AD 50 AD, the Etruscan language has historically been considered an isolate, but consensus now holds that it forms part of the Tyrsenian language family.

Frankish
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: frä)

French
The French language, rendered in its standard writing system

Georgian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ge)

German
The German language, rendered in its standard writing system

Greek (ancient in Linear B)
The ancient Greek language, written in the Linear B writing system.

Greek (ancient)
The ancient greek language, rendered in its standard writing system.

Greek (ancient, in Latin characters)
The ancient greek language, rendered in the roman writing system (i.e., latin characters).

Greek (modern)
The modern Greek language, rendered in its standard writing system.

Hebrew (ancient)
The ancient Hebrew language, rendered in its standardized writing system

Hebrew (modern)
The modern Hebrew language, rendered in its standardized writing system

Hindi
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: hi)

Hittite
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: het)

Hungarian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ung)

Hurrian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: hur)

Iberian
The Iberian language as defined by the IANA Language Subtag Registry.

Irish
The Irish language, rendered in its standard writing system (Latin characters) as registered in the IANA Language Subtag Registry

Italian
The Italian language, rendered in its standard writing system

Khmer
The Khmer language, rendered in its standard writing system.

Kurdish
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ku)

Latin
The Latin language, rendered in its standard writing system.

Latin in Greek Characters
The Latin language, rendered in the Greek writing system.

Lycian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ly)

Macedonian
The Macedonian language, written in the Cyrillic writing system, as registered in the IANA Language Subtag Registry.

Maltese
The Maltese language in its standard writing system, as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language. A Semitic language and the co-official language of Malta, alongside English.

Meroitic
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: me)

Middle Persian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: mpe)

Modern Hebrew
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: nhe)

Mycenaean Greek
The Greek language as known through Linear B texts from the Mycenaean period

Nabataean
From LINGUIST list (TAVO abbrev: na)

None (from GANE)
A non-standard language code that came in with TAVO+GANE data. It should not be reused on new content items.

Old French
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: afr)

Old North Arabian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: aln)

Old South Arabian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: al)

Ottoman Turkish
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: os)

Pamphylic
From LINGUIST list (TAVO abbrev: pam)

Pashto
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: pa)

Persian (modern)
The Persian (Pārsi) language, written in its conventional, standard script.

Persian, Old (ca. 600-400 B.C.)
The Old Persian language written in Old Persian cuneiform script as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Persian

Phoenician
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: phö)

Polish
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: pol)

Portuguese
The Portuguese language, rendered in its standard writing system

Romanian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: rum)

Russian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: rus)

Sanskrit
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: sa)

Sanskrit (in Brahmi)
The ancient Sanskrit language, rendered in the Brahmi writing system.

Sanskrit (in Devanagari)
The ancient Sanskrit language, rendered in the Devanagari writing system.

Sanskrit (in Khmer)
The Sanskrit language, rendered in the Khmer writing system.

Sanskrit (in Nandinagari)
The ancient Sanskrit language, rendered in the Nandinagari writing system.

Serbian (in Cyrillic characters)
The Serbian language, rendered in the Cyrillic writing system.

Serbian (in Latin characters)
The Serbian language, rendered in the Latin writing system.

Serbo-Croatian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: sk)

Sindhi
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: si)

Slovene
The Slovene language (Slovenian) is a South Slavic language, as described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_language

Somali
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: so)

Spanish
The Spanish language, rendered in its standard writing system

Sumerian
The ancient Sumerian language, rendered in its customary writing system (i.e., cuneiform).

Swahili
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: sw)

Syriac
The Syriac language, written in its traditional script.

Tamil
The modern Tamil language, rendered in its default writing system, as defined by the IANA Language Subtag Registry.

Turkish
The Turkish language, rendered in its standard writing system.

Turkmen
The modern Turkmen language, written in the Roman (Turkmen) system.

Ugaritic
The ancient Ugaritic language, written in its native script, as defined by the IANA Language Subtag Registry.

Ukrainian
The Ukrainian language rendered in its standard writing system (Cyrillic).

Urartian
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ura)

Urdu
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: ur)

Uyghur
The modern Uyghur language, written in its official (Arabic Uyghur) script.

Uzbek
From ISO 639-3 (TAVO abbrev: us)

Welsh
The Welsh language, written in Latin script, as defined by the IANA Language Subtag Registry