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Language code: nai

Technical information about ISO 639 language code nai

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The table below provides technical details for the North American Indian language, designated by the nai code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

nai

Name

North American Indian

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Key facts
The ISO code “nai” is a collective bibliographic code that groups hundreds of distinct Indigenous languages of North AmericaBecause it is not a single language, there is no unified writing system, pronunciation, or set of dialectsIn modern linguistic description each language (e.g., Navajo – nav, Mohawk – moh) is assigned its own ISO 639-3 code insteadThe collective code survives mainly in library cataloguing and legacy databasesMutual intelligibility between the languages grouped under “nai” is generally nonexistent.
Sample phrase

No single “native script” is possible, because ISO 639 code “nai” covers many unrelated North American Indigenous languages rather than one language.

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The North American Indian language, identified by the code nai, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Geographic' by its type.

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