API Developers Guide
Language Codes
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |