Fonts & Encodings

D.10. Predefined Features, Languages, and Scripts

D.10.1. Predefined Languages and Scripts

The OpenType specification defines tags for scripts and languages. Here is the list of scripts:

Arabic	arab	Georgian	geor	Mongolian	mong
Armenian	armn	Greek	grek	Ogham	ogam
Bengali	beng	Gujarati	gujr	Oriya	orya
Bopomofo	bopo	Gurmukhi	guru	Runic	runr
Braille	brai	Hangul	hang	Sinhalese	sinh
Burmese	mymr	Hangul Jamo	jamo	Syriac	syrc
Byzantine music	byzm	Hebrew	hebr	Tamil	taml
Canadian syllabics	cans	Hiragana	kana	Telugu	telu
Cherokee	cher	Kannada	knda	Thaana	thaa
CJK Ideographic	hani	Katakana	kana	Thai	thai
Cyrillic	cyrl	Khmer	khmr	Tibetan	tibt
Default	DFLT	Lao	lao	Yi	yi
Devanagari	deva	Latin	latn
Ethiopian	ethi	Malayalam	mlym

And here is the list of languages, following ISO 639-2 [191]:

Abkhazian	ABK	Greek, Modern (1453—)	GRE/ELL	Nyankole	NYN
Achinese	ACE	Greenlandic	KAL	Nynorsk, Norwegian	NNO
Acoli	ACH	Guarani	GRN	Nyoro	NYO
Adangme	ADA	Gujarati	GUJ	Nzima	NZI
Adygei	ADY	Gwicht'in	GWI	Occitan (post-1500)	OCI
Adyghe	ADY	Haida	HAI	Oirat	XAL
Afar	AAR	Haitian	HAT	Ojibwa	OJI
Afrihili	AFH	Haitian Creole	HAT	Old Bulgarian	CHU
Afrikaans	AFR	Hausa	HAU	Old Church Slavonic	CHU
Afro-Asiatic (Other)	AFA	Hawaiian	HAW	Old Newari	NWC
Ainu	AIN	Hebrew	HEB	Old Slavonic	CHU
Akan	AKA	Herero	HER	Oriya	ORI
Akkadian	AKK	Hiligaynon	HIL	Oromo	ORM
Albanian	ALB/SQI	Himachali	HIM	Osage	OSA
Alemani	GSW	Hindi	HIN	Ossetian	OSS
Aleut	ALE	Hiri Motu	HMO	Ossetic	OSS
Algonquian languages	ALG	Hittite	HIT	Otomian languages	OTO
Altaic (Other)	TUT	Hmong	HMN	Pahlavi	PAL
Amharic	AMH	Hungarian	HUN	Palauan	PAU
Angika	ANP	Hupa	HUP	Pali	PLI
Apache languages	APA	Iban	IBA	Pampanga	PAM
Arabic	ARA	Icelandic	ICE/ISL	Pangasinan	PAG
Aragonese	ARG ...