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V4.0
1999/2000 VEMD User Manual
Appendix
4
PREFERRED LANGUAGE
This classification
is from NHDD Version 8.0 and is a modification of the 2-digit level Australian
Standard Classification of Languages (ABS) classification.
|
Code
|
Preferred Language
|
|
00
|
Afrikaans
|
|
01
|
Albanian
|
|
02
|
Alyawarr (Alyawarra)
|
|
03
|
Arabic (including Lebanese)
|
|
04
|
Armenian
|
|
05
|
Arrernte (Aranda)
|
|
06
|
Assyrian (including Aramaic)
|
|
07
|
Australian Indigenous languages, NEC
|
|
08
|
Bengali
|
|
09
|
Bisaya
|
|
10
|
Bosnian
|
|
11
|
Bulgarian
|
|
12
|
Burarra
|
|
13
|
Burmese
|
|
14
|
Cantonese
|
|
15
|
Cebuano
|
|
16
|
Croatian
|
|
17
|
Czech
|
|
18
|
Danish
|
|
19
|
English
|
|
20
|
Estonian
|
|
21
|
Fijian
|
|
22
|
Finnish
|
|
23
|
French
|
|
24
|
German
|
|
25
|
Gilbertese
|
|
26
|
Greek
|
|
27
|
Gujarati
|
|
28
|
Hakka
|
|
29
|
Hebrew
|
|
30
|
Hindi
|
|
31
|
Hmong
|
|
32
|
Hokkien
|
|
33
|
Hungarian
|
|
34
|
Indonesian
|
|
35
|
Irish
|
|
36
|
Italian
|
|
37
|
Japanese
|
|
38
|
Kannada
|
|
39
|
Khmer
|
|
40
|
Korean
|
|
41
|
Kriol
|
|
42
|
Kuurinji (Gurindji)
|
|
43
|
Lao
|
|
44
|
Latvian
|
|
45
|
Lithuanian
|
|
46
|
Macedonian
|
|
47
|
Malay
|
|
48
|
Maltese
|
|
49
|
Mandarin
|
|
50
|
Mauritian Creole
|
|
51
|
Netherlandic
|
|
52
|
Norwegian
|
|
53
|
Persian
|
|
54
|
Pintupi
|
|
55
|
Pitjantjatjara
|
|
56
|
Polish
|
|
57
|
Portuguese
|
|
58
|
Punjabi
|
|
59
|
Romanian
|
|
60
|
Russian
|
|
61
|
Samoan
|
|
62
|
Serbian
|
|
63
|
Sinhalese
|
|
64
|
Slovak
|
|
65
|
Slovene
|
|
66
|
Somali
|
|
67
|
Spanish
|
|
68
|
Swahili
|
|
69
|
Swedish
|
|
70
|
Tagalog (Filipino)
|
|
71
|
Tamil
|
|
72
|
Telugu
|
|
73
|
Teochew
|
|
74
|
Thai
|
|
75
|
Timorese
|
|
76
|
Tiwi
|
|
77
|
Tongan
|
|
78
|
Turkish
|
|
79
|
Ukranian
|
|
80
|
Urdu
|
|
81
|
Vietnamese
|
|
82
|
Walmajarri (Walmadjari)
|
|
83
|
Warlpiri
|
|
84
|
Welsh
|
|
85
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Wik-Mungkan
|
|
86
|
Yiddish
|
|
95
|
Other languages, nfd
|
|
96
|
Inadequately described
|
|
97
|
Non verbal, so described (including sign languages eg. Auslan,
Makaton)
|
|
98
|
Not stated
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Guide for Use
All non-verbal
means of communication, including sign languages, are to be coded to 97.
Code 96 should
be used where some information, but insufficient, is provided.
Code 98 is
to be used when no information is provided.
All
Australian Indigenous languages not shown separately on the code list are to
be coded to 07.
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