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Table I-1. Subcommittee Template: Comparison of Spoken Language Categories and Coding (continued)

Census Language Name^a	Census Code^a	ISO 639-3 Individual language^b	ISO 639-2 Individual language^b	ISO 639-1 Individual language^b	ISO Language Name^b	Other Names and Additional Information	Reported in the Census 2000^c	Kaiser Permanente Health Plan^d	Contra Costa Health Plan^d	HRET Hospital Survey^f	NACHC Survey of CHCs^g	Language Line Use^h	NY Presbyterian Hospital^e	SFGH^e	UW^e	Sutter Health^e
White Mountain	979	apw			Apache, Western (differs from other Apache codes)	White Mountain is dialect of Western Apache
Wichita	937					Nearly extinct	x
Windish	644					Slovenian language group
Winnebago	909	win			Ho-Chunk		x
Wintun	875	wit			Wintu	Nearly extinct	x
Wiyot	826	wiy			Wiyot	Extinct	x
Woleai-Ulithi	763	woe			Woleaian		x
Wolof	794	wol	wol	wo	Wolof			x	x	x		x	x		x	x
Wu	715	wuu (sub of Chinese with own code)			Wu Chinese		x		x							x
Wyandot (see Huron)	932	wya			Wyandot	Extinct	x
Xhosa	792	xho	xho	xh	Xhosa			x	x							x
Yakama	882
Yakut	693	sah	sah		Yakut		x
Yapese	764	yap	yap		Yapese		x	x
Yaqui	955	yaq			Yaqui		x
Yavapai (different code than Havasupai)	900	yuf			Havasupai- Walapai- Yavapai		x
Yenisei	683	kjh			Khakas	Abakan Tartar, Yennisej Tartar, Xakas
Yiddish	609	yid (macro with 2 subs)	yid	yi	Yiddish		x	x	x	x		x	x			x
Yoruba	796	yor	yor	yo	Yoruba			x	x			x				x
Yuchi	903	yuc			Yuchi	Nearly extinct	x
Yugoslav	649
Yuki	922	yuk			Yuki	Extinct	x
Yuma	894	yum			Quechan	Kechan
Yupik	805	esu (Central) ess (Central Siberain) ynk (Naukan) ems (Pacific Gulf) ysr (Sirenic)	ypk (collective)		Yupik		x					x
Yurok	827	yur			Yurok	Yurok; nearly extinct	x
Zapoteca	971	zap (macro with 47 subs	zap		Zapotec				x	x
Zia	924	zia			Zia
Zulu	792	zul	zul	zu	Zulu			x	x							x
Zuni	964	zun	zun		Zuni		x
	736					Bravanese (name for Swahili use in part of Somalia						x
	uncoded	daw			Davawenyo	Davaweno					x
	uncoded	hac			Gorani	Southern Kurdish language						x

	uncoded					Manegra							x

	uncoded written	Brai (4 letter script code ISO 15924)			Braille											x
	coded as English					Nonspeaking; speech loss
	uncoded					Declined, Refused										x
	coded as English	ase			American Sign Language	Deaf; Hearing Impaired; Non Hearing		x	x	x	x	x	x		x	x
						American Sign Language tactive							x
	uncoded	130 possible choices			Multiple Sign Language options	Other Sign Language		x						x		x
	uncoded	und				Undetermined; Unable to Determine; Unknown								x		x

^a U.S. Census Bureau. 2007. Census 2000 Summary File 2—Technical documentation. Appendix G code lists. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau. Additional languages were added to this column based on the responses in columns on health plan, hospital, and community health center use. An asterisk indicates a language added to the Census 2000 list.
^b SIL International. 2009. ISO 639 Code Tables. http://sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=639_3&letter=a (accessed August 25, 2009).
^c Modern Language Association. 2009. All languages reported to the US Census in 2000. http://www.mla.org/map_data_langlist&mode=lang_tops (accessed May 26, 2009).
^d Refer to Appendixes G and H on Kaiser Permanente and Contra Costa for information on their approaches to data collection and categorization.
^e Personal communications from Emilio Carrillo, New York Presbyterian Hospital, May 11, 2009; Alice Chen, San Francisco General Hospital, July 7, 2009; Maria Moreno and Traci Van, Sutter Health, July 22, 2009; Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, University of Wisconsin Health, May 11, 2009.
^f Hasnain-Wynia, R., J. Yonek, D. Pierce, R. Kang, and C. H. Greising. 2006. Hospital language services for patients with limited English proficiency: Results from a national survey . Chicago, IL: Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET)/AHA.
^g National Association of Community Health Centers. 2008. Serving patients with limited English proficiency: Results of a community health center survey . Bethesda, MD: National Association of Community Health Centers and National Health Law Program.
^h Language Line Service. 2009. List of languages by Language Line Services. http://www.languageline.com/page/languages/ (accessed June 12, 2009)

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