#### NHS 111
Domain Message Specification

### HumanLanguage

Code SystemId: | 2.16.840.1.113883.2.1.3.2.4.17.70
Version: | 4.0
Status: | active
Date: | 2007-11-30

#### Description

A language used by human beings. It includes languages that use any of the senses, e.g. sight and touch as well as sound. It is based on the ISO 639-1 two character language codes, plus five extensions required by NPfIT. These make use of the area reserved by ISO 639 for local use and include a digit to distinguish them from any current ISO 639-1 codes.

N.B. For CDA domains, use of codes q1 - q5 are prohibited.

#### Values

Code | Description | Note
--- | --- | ---
q1 | Braille | For people who are unable to see
q2 | American Sign Language |
q3 | Australian.Sign Language |
q4 | British Sign Language |
q5 | Makaton | Devised for children and adults with a variety of communication and learning disabilities.
aa | Afar |
ab | Abkhazian |
af | Afrikaans |
ak | Akan |
sq | Albanian |
am | Amharic |
ar | Arabic |
an | Aragonese |
hy | Armenian |
as | Assamese |
av | Avaric |
ae | Avestan |
ay | Aymara |
az | Azerbaijani |
ba | Bashkir |
bm | Bambara |
eu | Basque |
be | Belarusian |
bn | Bengali |
bh | Bihari |
bi | Bislama |
bo | Tibetan |
bs | Bosnian |
br | Breton |
bg | Bulgarian |
my | Burmese |
ca | Catalan; Valencian |
cs | Czech |
ch | Chamorro |
ce | Chechen |
zh | Chinese |
cu | Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic |
cv | Chuvash |
kw | Cornish |
co | Corsican |
cr | Cree |
cy | Welsh |
da | Danish |
de | German |
dv | Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian |
nl | Dutch; Flemish |
dz | Dzongkha |
el | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
en | English |
eo | Esperanto |
et | Estonian |
ee | Ewe |
fo | Faroese |
fa | Persian |
fj | Fijian |
fi | Finnish |
fr | French |
fy | Western Frisian |
ff | Fulah |
ka | Georgian |
gd | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic |
ga | Irish |
gl | Galician |
gv | Manx |
gn | Guarani |
gu | Gujarati |
ht | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
ha | Hausa |
he | Hebrew |
hz | Herero |
hi | Hindi |
ho | Hiri Motu |
hr | Croatian |
hu | Hungarian |
ig | Igbo |
is | Icelandic |
io | Ido |
ii | Sichuan Yi |
iu | Inuktitut |
ie | Interlingue |
ia | Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) |
id | Indonesian |
ik | Inupiaq |
it | Italian |
jv | Javanese |
ja | Japanese |
kl | Kalaallisut; Greenlandic |
kn | Kannada |
ks | Kashmiri |
kr | Kanuri |
kk | Kazakh |
km | Central Khmer |
ki | Kikuyu; Gikuyu |
rw | Kinyarwanda |
ky | Kirghiz; Kyrgyz |
kv | Komi |
kg | Kongo |
ko | Korean |
kj | Kuanyama; Kwanyama |
ku | Kurdish |
lo | Lao |
la | Latin |
lv | Latvian |
li | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish |
ln | Lingala |
lt | Lithuanian |
lb | Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch |
lu | Luba-Katanga |
lg | Ganda |
mk | Macedonian |
mh | Marshallese |
ml | Malayalam |
mi | Maori |
mr | Marathi |
ms | Malay |
mg | Malagasy |
mt | Maltese |
mo | Moldavian |
mn | Mongolian |
na | Nauru |
nv | Navajo; Navaho |
nr | Ndebele, South; South Ndebele |
nd | Ndebele, North; North Ndebele |
ng | Ndonga |
ne | Nepali |
nn | Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian |
nb | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
no | Norwegian |
ny | Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja |
oc | Occitan (post1500); Provençal |
oj | Ojibwa |
or | Oriya |
om | Oromo |
os | Ossetian; Ossetic |
pa | Panjabi; Punjabi |
pi | Pali |
pl | Polish |
pt | Portuguese |
ps | Pushto |
qu | Quechua |
rm | Romansh |
ro | Romanian |
rn | Rundi |
ru | Russian |
sg | Sango |
sa | Sanskrit |
sr | Serbian |
si | Sinhala; Sinhalese |
sk | Slovak |
sl | Slovenian |
se | Northern Sami |
sm | Samoan |
sn | Shona |
sd | Sindhi |
so | Somali |
st | Sotho, Southern |
es | Spanish; Castilian |
sc | Sardinian |
ss | Swati |
su | Sundanese |
sw | Swahili |
sv | Swedish |
ty | Tahitian |
ta | Tamil |
tt | Tatar |
te | Telugu |
tg | Tajik |
tl | Tagalog |
th | Thai |
ti | Tigrinya |
to | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
tn | Tswana |
ts | Tsonga |
tk | Turkmen |
tr | Turkish |
tw | Twi |
ug | Uighur; Uyghur |
uk | Ukrainian |
ur | Urdu |
uz | Uzbek |
ve | Venda |
vi | Vietnamese |
vo | Volapük |
wa | Walloon |
wo | Wolof |
xh | Xhosa |
yi | Yiddish |
yo | Yoruba |
za | Zhuang; Chuang |
zu | Zulu |