Language Codes
The following are the language codes from the CALPADS Language Code Mapping document effective 9/19/2023. Aeries added the new 3 character codes to the CALPADS Cross Reference Table (XRF) for the Reporting Language (STU.HL) field.
This allows districts to continue to use the 2 character codes.
See How to Add 3-character Language codes.
| Old CALPADS Language Code | Old CALPADS Language Name | New CALPADS Language Code | New CALPADS Language Name |
| 83 | Afrikaans | afr | Afrikaans |
| 85 | Afro-Asiatic languages | afa | Afro-Asiatic languages |
| 56 | Albanian | alb | Albanian |
| 66 | Amharic | amh | Amharic |
| 11 | Arabic | ara | Arabic |
| 12 | Armenian | arm | Armenian |
| 84 | Assamese | asm | Assamese |
| 42 | Assyrian | syr | Syriac (Assyrian) |
| 61 | Bengali | ben | Bengali |
| 86 | Berber languages | ber | Berber languages |
| 67 | Bulgarian | bul | Bulgarian |
| 13 | Burmese | bur | Burmese |
| 03 | Cantonese | yue | Cantonese |
| 87 | Catalan: Valencian | cat | Catalan: Valencian |
| 36 | Cebuano (Visayan) | ceb | Cebuano (Bisayan, Visayan) |
| 88 | Central American Indian Languages | cai | Central American Indian Languages |
| 54 | Chaldean | cld | Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (Chaldean) |
| 20 | Chamorro (Guamanian) | cha | Chamorro (Guamanian) |
39 | Chaozhou (Chiuchow) | qab | Chaozhou (Teochew/Chiuchow) |
89 | Creoles and pidgins, English based | cpe | Creoles and pidgins, English based |
| 90 | Creoles and pidgins, French-based | cpf | Creoles and pidgins, French based |
| 91 | Czech | cze | Czech |
| 92 | Danish | dan | Danish |
| 82 | Dinka | din | Dinka |
| 15 | Dutch | dut | Dutch; Flemish |
| 81 | Dzongkha | dzo | Dzongkha |
| 00 | English | eng | English |
| 16 | Farsi (Persian) | per | Persian (Farsi) |
| 93 | Fijian | fij | Fijian |
| 05 | Filipino (Pilipino or Tagalog) | phi | Philippine languages |
| 94 | Finnish | fin | Finnish |
| 17 | French | fre | French |
| 18 | German | ger | German |
| 19 | Greek | gre | Greek, Modern (1453-) |
| 43 | Gujarati | guj | Gujarati |
| 73 | Haitian (Haitian Creole) | hat | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
| 95 | Hawaiian | haw | Hawaiian |
| 21 | Hebrew | heb | Hebrew |
| 22 | Hindi | hin | Hindi |
| 23 | Hmong | hmn | Hmong: Mong |
| 24 | Hungarian | hun | Hungarian |
| 96 | Icelandic | ice | Icelandic |
| 25 | Ilocano | ilo | Iloko (Ilocano) |
| 26 | Indonesian | ind | Indonesian |
| A1 | Iranian Languages | ira | Iranian Languages |
| 97 | Irish | gle | Irish |
| 27 | Italian | ita | Italian |
| 08 | Japanese | jpn | Japanese |
| 74 | Kachin (Jingpho) | kac | Kachin; Jingpho |
| 65 | Kannada | kan | Kannada |
| 75 | Karen languages | kar | Karen Languages |
| 69 | Kashmiri | kas | Kashmiri |
| 09 | Khmer (Cambodian) | mkh | Mon-Khmer languages (Cambodian) |
| 50 | Khmu | kjg | Khmu |
| 68 | Kikuyu (Gikuyu) | kik | Kikuyu; Gikuyu |
| 80 | Kinyarwanda | kin | Kinyarwanda |
| A2 | Konkani | kok | Konkani |
| 04 | Korean | kor | Korean |
| 51 | Kurdish (Kurdi, Kurmanji) | kur | Kurdish (Kurdi, Kurmanji) |
| 47 | Lahu | lhu | Lahu |
| 10 | Lao | lao | Lao |
| A3 | Latvian | lav | Latvian |
| 79 | Lingala | lin | Lingala |
| A4 | Lithuanian | lit | Lithuanian |
| A5 | Malay | may | Malay |
| A6 | Malayalam | mal | Malayalam |
| 07 | Mandarin (Putonghua) | cmn | Mandarin (Putonghua, Guoyu) |
| 64 | Marathi | mar | Marathi |
| 48 | Marshallese | mah | Marshallese |
| A7 | Mayan Languages | myn | Mayan Languages |
| 44 | Mien (Yao) | yao | Yao (Mien) |
| 49 | Mixteco | oto | Otomian languages (Mixteco) |
| A8 | Mongolian | mon | Mongolian |
| A9 | Nahuatl languages | nah | Nahuatl languages |
| B1 | Navajo; Navaho | nav | Navajo; Navaho |
| 76 | Nepali | nep | Nepali |
| B2 | North American Indian Languages | nai | North American Indian Languages |
| B3 | Norwegian | nor | Norwegian |
| B4 | Oriya | ori | Oriya |
| 78 | Oromo | orm | Oromo |
| 99 | Other non-English languages | mis | Uncoded languages (Other non-English languages) |
| B5 | Pampanga; Kapampangan | pam | Pampanga; Kapampangan |
| 40 | Pashto | pus | Pushto; Pashto |
| 41 | Polish | pol | Polish |
| 06 | Portuguese | por | Portuguese |
| 28 | Punjabi | pan | Panjabi; Punjabi |
| 45 | Rumanian | rum | Romanian (Rumanian) |
| 29 | Russian | rus | Russian |
| 30 | Samoan | smo | Samoan |
| 52 | Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian) | bat | Other Baltic languages |
| 37 | Sign Language | sgn | Sign Languages |
| B6 | Sinhala; Sinhalese | sin | Sinhala; Sinhalese |
| B7 | Slovak | slo | Slovak |
| 60 | Somali | som | Somali |
| 01 | Spanish | spa | Spanish; Castilian |
| 77 | Swahili | swa | Swahili |
| 70 | Swedish | swe | Swedish |
| 46 | Taiwanese | qaa | Taiwanese |
| 63 | Tamil | tam | Tamil |
| 62 | Telugu | tel | Telugu |
| 32 | Thai | tha | Thai |
| 57 | Tigrinya | tir | Tigrinya |
| 53 | Toishanese | sit | Other Sino-Tibetan languages (Taishanese) |
| 34 | Tongan | ton | Tonga (Tonga Islands) |
| 33 | Turkish | tur | Turkish |
| B8 | Twi | twi | Twi |
| 38 | Ukrainian | ukr | Ukrainian |
| UU | Unknown | mis | Uncoded languages (Other non-English languages) |
| 35 | Urdu | urd | Urdu |
| 72 | Uzbek | uzb | Uzbek |
| 02 | Vietnamese | vie | Vietnamese |
| B9 | Yoruba | yor | Yoruba |
| 71 | Zapoteco | zap | Zapotec |
NOTE: This is only showing a partial listing of new 3 character codes based on existing values that were depricated as of 9/18/2023. For a full listing of new codes, see the lastest code set from CALPADS at CALPADS System Documentation.