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CEDS codes for commonly spoken languages

Locate the three-letter code for a student's home language

Updated over 7 months ago

These language codes are a subset of the CEDS ISO 639-3 language code standards and represent the most commonly spoken languages in the United States. This is the subset of languages Amplify currently uses for identifying a student's home language for demographic reporting. The three-letter language code should be used for identifying the primary language spoken in a student’s home when that language isn’t English.

Language

CEDS Code

Language

CEDS Code

Arabic

ara

Lao

lao

Armenian

hye

Mandarin

cms

Bengali

ben

Navajo

nav

Cantonese

yue

Persian

fas

Chinese

zho

Polish

pol

English

eng

Portuguese

por

French

frc

Punjabi

pan

German

deu

Russian

rus

Greek

ell

Serbo-Croatian

hbs

Gujarati

guj

Spanish

spa

Haitian

hat

Swahili

swa

Hebrew

heb

Tagalog

tgl

Hindi

hin

Tamil

tam

Hmong

hmn

Telugu

tel

Italian

ita

Thai

tha

Japanese

jpn

Urdu

urd

Khmer

khm

Vietnamese

vie

Korean

kor

Yiddish

yid

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