stopwords-iso

The most comprehensive collection of stopwords for multiple languages.

The collection follows the ISO 639-1 language code.

If you only need stopwords for a specific language, there is a separate collection for each.

Usage

The collection is in JSON format. You are free to use this collection any way you like. It is only currently published on npm, bower, and pip.

Node/JavaScript

$ npm install stopwords-iso

$ bower install stopwords-iso

// Node
const stopwords = require('stopwords-iso');  // object of stopwords for multiple languages
const english = stopwords.en;  // English stopwords

Contributing

If you wish to remove or update some of the stopwords, please file an issue first before sending a PR on the repo of the specific language.

If you would like to add a stopword or a new set of stopwords, please add them as a new text file on the repo of the corresponding language.

Credits

All stopwords sources are listed here.

List of Included Languages

This table lists the entire set of ISO 639-1:2002 codes, with a check mark indicating those language codes that are found in stopwords-iso.json.

The list of codes itself is from www.loc.gov, which is the official "language codes list" and is linked to from www.iso.org.

ISO 639-1 Code	Language	Included Here
aa	Afar
ab	Abkhazian
af	Afrikaans	✓
ak	Akan
sq	Albanian
am	Amharic
ar	Arabic	✓
an	Aragonese
hy	Armenian	✓
as	Assamese
av	Avaric
ae	Avestan
ay	Aymara
az	Azerbaijani
ba	Bashkir
bm	Bambara
eu	Basque	✓
be	Belarusian
bn	Bengali	✓
bh	Bihari languages
bi	Bislama
bo	Tibetan
bs	Bosnian
br	Breton	✓
bg	Bulgarian	✓
my	Burmese
ca	Catalan; Valencian	✓
cs	Czech	✓
ch	Chamorro
ce	Chechen
zh	Chinese	✓
cu	Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic
cv	Chuvash
kw	Cornish
co	Corsican
cr	Cree
cy	Welsh
da	Danish	✓
de	German	✓
dv	Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian
nl	Dutch; Flemish	✓
dz	Dzongkha
el	Greek, Modern (1453-)	✓
en	English	✓
eo	Esperanto	✓
et	Estonian	✓
ee	Ewe
fo	Faroese
fa	Persian	✓
fj	Fijian
fi	Finnish	✓
fr	French	✓
fy	Western Frisian
ff	Fulah
ka	Georgian
gd	Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic
ga	Irish	✓
gl	Galician	✓
gv	Manx
gn	Guarani
gu	Gujarati
ht	Haitian; Haitian Creole
ha	Hausa	✓
he	Hebrew	✓
hz	Herero
hi	Hindi	✓
ho	Hiri Motu
hr	Croatian	✓
hu	Hungarian	✓
ig	Igbo
is	Icelandic
io	Ido
ii	Sichuan Yi; Nuosu
iu	Inuktitut
ie	Interlingue; Occidental
ia	Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
id	Indonesian	✓
ik	Inupiaq
it	Italian	✓
jv	Javanese
ja	Japanese	✓
kl	Kalaallisut; Greenlandic
kn	Kannada
ks	Kashmiri
kr	Kanuri
kk	Kazakh
km	Central Khmer
ki	Kikuyu; Gikuyu
rw	Kinyarwanda
ky	Kirghiz; Kyrgyz
kv	Komi
kg	Kongo
ko	Korean	✓
kj	Kuanyama; Kwanyama
ku	Kurdish	✓
lo	Lao
la	Latin	✓
lv	Latvian	✓
li	Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish
ln	Lingala
lt	Lithuanian	✓
lb	Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch
lu	Luba-Katanga
lg	Ganda
mk	Macedonian
mh	Marshallese
ml	Malayalam
mi	Maori
mr	Marathi	✓
ms	Malay	✓
mg	Malagasy
mt	Maltese
mn	Mongolian
na	Nauru
nv	Navajo; Navaho
nr	Ndebele, South; South Ndebele
nd	Ndebele, North; North Ndebele
ng	Ndonga
ne	Nepali
nn	Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian
nb	Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål
no	Norwegian	✓
ny	Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja
oc	Occitan (post 1500)
oj	Ojibwa
or	Oriya
om	Oromo
os	Ossetian; Ossetic
pa	Panjabi; Punjabi
pi	Pali
pl	Polish	✓
pt	Portuguese	✓
ps	Pushto; Pashto
qu	Quechua
rm	Romansh
ro	Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan	✓
rn	Rundi
ru	Russian	✓
sg	Sango
sa	Sanskrit
si	Sinhala; Sinhalese
sk	Slovak	✓
sl	Slovenian	✓
se	Northern Sami
sm	Samoan
sn	Shona
sd	Sindhi
so	Somali	✓
st	Sotho, Southern	✓
es	Spanish; Castilian	✓
sc	Sardinian
sr	Serbian
ss	Swati
su	Sundanese
sw	Swahili	✓
sv	Swedish	✓
ty	Tahitian
ta	Tamil
tt	Tatar
te	Telugu
tg	Tajik
tl	Tagalog	✓
th	Thai	✓
ti	Tigrinya
to	Tonga (Tonga Islands)
tn	Tswana
ts	Tsonga
tk	Turkmen
tr	Turkish	✓
tw	Twi
ug	Uighur; Uyghur
uk	Ukrainian	✓
ur	Urdu	✓
uz	Uzbek
ve	Venda
vi	Vietnamese	✓
vo	Volapük
wa	Walloon
wo	Wolof
xh	Xhosa
yi	Yiddish
yo	Yoruba	✓
za	Zhuang; Chuang
zu	Zulu	✓