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Language code: aus

Technical information about ISO 639 language code aus

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The table below provides technical details for the Australian languages language, designated by the aus code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

aus

Name

Australian languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
PitjantjatjaraYolŋu MathaArrernteNoongarKriol
Key facts
The ISO code “aus” is a collective code that groups the hundreds of distinct Aboriginal languages of the Australian continentLinguists recognise roughly 250 separate Australian languages, but only a few dozen still have a significant number of child speakersPrior to European contact these languages were purely oral-tradition and only later adopted the Latin script for writingAustralian languages characteristically lack fricative consonants and instead make heavy use of place-of-articulation contrasts in stops and lateralsMany employ intricate kinship-based pronoun and verb systems that encode social hierarchy and relationship obligations.
Sample phrase

Palya, nyuntu palya?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Australian languages language, identified by the code aus, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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