This list also appears on pp. 460-462 of Niederst's Web Design in a Nutshell. Major world languages have been highlighted in bold text. (If you disagree with my definition of what makes for a "major world language", my apologies, but no complaints please.)

aa

Afar

ia

Interlingua

rn

Kirundi

ab

Abkhazian

id

Indonesian

ro

Romanian

af

Afrikaans

ik

Inupiak

ru

Russian

ar

Arabic

is

Icelandic

sa

Sanskrit

as

Assamese

it

Italian

sd

Sindhi

ay

Aymara

iu

Inuktitut

sg

Sangho

az

Azerbaijani

ja

Japanese

sh

Serbo-Croat

ba

Bashkir

jw

Javanese

si

Sinhalese

be

Belarussian

ka

Georgian

sk

Slovak

bg

Bulgarian

kk

Kazakh

sl

Slovenian

bh

Bihari

kl

Greenlandic

sm

Samoan

bi

Bislama

km

Cambodian

sn

Shona

bn

Bengali

kn

Kannada

so

Somali

bo

Tibetan

ko

Korean

sq

Albanian

br

Breton

ks

Kashmiri

sr

Serbian

ca

Catalan

ku

Kurdish

ss

Siswati

co

Corsican

ky

Kyrghiz

st

Sesotho

cs

Czech

la

Latin

su

Sundanese

cy

Welsh

lm

Lingala

sv

Swedish

da

Danish

lo

Laotian

sw

Swahili

de

German

lt

Lithuanian

ta

Tamil

dz

Bhutani

lv

Latvian

te

Telugu

el

Greek

mg

Malagasy

tg

Tajik

en

English

mi

Maori

th

Thai

eo

Esperanto

mk

Macedonian

ti

Tigrinya

es

Spanish

ml

Malayalam

tk

Turkmen

et

Estonian

mn

Mongolian

tl

Tagalog

eu

Basque

mo

Moldovan

tn

Setswana

fa

Persian

mr

Marathi

to

Tongan

fi

Finnish

ms

Malay

tr

Turkish

fj

Fijian

mt

Maltese

ts

Tsonga

fo

Faroese

my

Burmese

tt

Tatar

fr

French

na

Nauru

tw

Twi

fy

Frisian

ne

Nepali

ug

Uighur

ga

Irish

nl

Dutch

uk

Ukranian

gd

Scots Gaelic

no

Norwegian

ur

Urdu

gl

Galician

oc

Occitan

uz

Uzbek

gn

Guarani

om

Oromo

vi

Vietnamese

gu

Gujarati

or

Oriya

vo

Volapuk

ha

Hausa

pa

Punjabi

wo

Wolof

he

Hebrew

pl

Polish

xh

Xhosa

hi

Hindi

ps

Pashtu

yi

Yiddish

hr

Croatian

pt

Portuguese

yo

Yoruba

hu

Hungarian

qu

Quechua

zh

Chinese

hy

Armenian

rm

Rhaeto-Romance

zu

Zulu

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