Appendix G: Language

NOTE: The code set in the table below is no longer used. ISO 639-3:2007 codes is required to represent languages for Arkansas APCD language codes as of 6/30/2022. Links are here:

https://www.iso.org/standard/39534.html

https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_tables/639/data

Language Groups (original required reference - no longer used)

U.S. Census Bureau Language groups represent categories into which 382 U. S. Census language codes are grouped for analytics simplification.

Language groups can also be found at this link: Census Bureau Primary Language Code List

Value	Group Description
625,627,628	Spanish
620-622,624	French
623	French Creole
619	Italian
629-630	Portuguese
607,613	German
609	Yiddish
608,610-612	Other West Germanic languages
614-618	Scandinavian
637	Greek
639	Russian
645	Polish
649-651	Serbo-Croatian
640-644,646-648,652	Other Slavic languages
655	Armenian
656	Persian
667	Gujarati
663	Hindi
671	Urdu
662,664-666,668-670,672-678	Other Indic languages
601-606,626,631-636,638,653-654,657-661	Other Indo-European languages
708-715	Chinese
723	Japanese
724	Korean
726	Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
722	Hmong
720	Thai
725	Laotian
728	Vietnamese
684-707,716-719,721,727,729	Other Asian languages
742	Tagalog
730-741,743-776	Other Pacific Island languages
864	Navajo
800-863,865-955,959-966,977-982	Other Native American languages
682	Hungarian
777	Arabic
778	Hebrew
780-799	African languages
OTH	All other languages
UND	Undetermined

Language Codes

The coding operations used by the Census Bureau put the reported answers from the U. S. Census question "What is this language?" into 382 language categories of single languages or language families. These 382 language categories represent the most commonly spoken language other than English in the United States.

Language codes can also be found at this link: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/about/02_Primary_list.pdf