Language codes are encoded using the following mechanism:
- Two letter ISO 639.2 language code. This is the minimal language representation.
- Two letter regional (country) code according to ISO 3166 (optional). Most languages are also represented using this code.
- Three letter dialect representation according to the SIL-List (optional). Mostly used for Chinese dialects.
- 's' or 't' for "Simplified" or "Traditional" Chinese (optional).
The list below updates from time to time. For up-to-date list, please use our Discovery methods for Languages , Language Pairs and Expertise.
Language | Code |
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Afrikaans | af |
Albanian | sq-al |
Amharic | am-et |
Arabic | ar-sa |
Arabic (Egyptian) | ar-eg |
Arabic (Gulf) | ar-ae |
Arabic (Levantine) | ar-jo |
Arabic (Meghrebi) | ar-ma |
Armenian | hy-am |
Azerbaijani | az-az |
Basque | baq |
Belarussian | be-by |
Bengali | bn-bd |
Bosnian | bs-ba |
Bulgarian | bg-bg |
Burmese | my-mm |
Catalan | ca-es |
Chinese Traditional Cantonese | zh-cn-yue |
Chinese Mandarin-Simplified | zh-cn-cmn-s |
Chinese Mandarin-Traditional | zh-cn-cmn-t |
Chinese Traditional Mandarin (Taiwan) | zh-tw |
Croatian | hr-hr |
Czech | cs-cz |
Danish | da-dk |
Dari | fa-af |
Dutch | nl-nl |
English | en-us |
Estonian | et-ee |
Finnish | fi-fi |
Flemish (Belgian) | fl-be |
French | fr-fr |
French Canadian | fr-ca |
Georgian | ka-ge |
German | de-de |
Greek | el-gr |
Gujarati | gu-in |
Haitian Creale | ht |
Hebrew | he-il |
Hindi | hi-in |
Hungarian | hu-hu |
Icelandic | is-is |
Indonesian | id-id |
Irish Gaelic | ga-ie |
Italian | it-it |
Japanese | jp-jp |
Kannada | kn |
Kazakh | kk-kz |
Khmer | km-kh |
Korean | ko-kp |
Kurdish | ku-tr |
Lao | lo-la |
Latvian | lv-lv |
Lithuanian | lt-lt |
Macedonian | mk-mk |
Malay | ms-my |
Malayalam | ml-in |
Maltese | mt-mt |
Marathi | mr-in |
Mongolian | mn-mn |
Montenegrin | sr-me |
Nepali | ne-np |
Norwegian | no-no |
Pashto | ps |
Parsian | fa-ir |
Polish | pl-pl |
Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br |
Portuguese (Portugal) | pt-pt |
Punjabi | pa-in |
Romanian | ro-ro |
Russian | ru-ru |
Serbian (Cyrillic) | sr-rs |
Serbian (Latin) | sr |
Shanghainese | zn-shn |
Sinhala | si |
Slovak | sk-sk |
Slovenian (Slovene) | sl-si |
Somali | so-so |
Spanish | es-es |
Spanish (Latin-America) | es-ar |
Swahili | sw |
Swedish | sv-se |
Swiss French | fr-ch |
Swiss German | gsw-ch |
Swiss Italian | it-ch |
Tagalog | tl-ph |
Tajik | tgk |
Tamil | ta-in |
Telugu | te-in |
Thai | th-th |
Tigrinya | tir |
Turkish | tr-tr |
Ukrainian | uk-ua |
Urdu | ur |
Uzbek | uz-uz |
Vietnamese | vi-vn |
Welsh | cy-bg |
Xhosa | xho |
Yoruba | yo-ng |
Zulu | zul |