Language codes are widely used in HTML attributes, describing the language of the content they are referring to. There are many examples of its usage as most elements in HTML support language attributes. The following example document uses the language attributes, "lang" and "xml:lang" (the last for XHTML compatibility) in many elements.
Sometimes language codes are also associated to a specific region in the form "[LanguageCode]-[CountryCode]" (e.g., en-US for United States English). In fact, there are many other subspecifications (for their complexity and poor use, not treated in this site) that include extended language, script, variant, extension and private use.
A reference table for country codes can be found in our country codes page.
| Language | Code |
|---|---|
| Abkhazian | ab |
| Afar | aa |
| Afrikaans | af |
| Akan | ak |
| Albanian | sq |
| Amharic | am |
| Arabic | ar |
| Aragonese | an |
| Armenian | hy |
| Assamese | as |
| Avaric | av |
| Avestan | ae |
| Aymara | ay |
| Azerbaijani | az |
| Bambara | bm |
| Bashkir | ba |
| Basque | eu |
| Belarusian | be |
| Bengali | bn |
| Bihari | bh |
| Bislama | bi |
| Bosnian | bs |
| Breton | br |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Burmese | my |
| Catalan; Valencian | ca |
| Chamorro | ch |
| Chechen | ce |
| Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja | ny |
| Chinese | zh |
| Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic | cu |
| Chuvash | cv |
| Cornish | kw |
| Corsican | co |
| Cree | cr |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Divehi | dv |
| Dutch; Flemish | nl |
| Dzongkha | dz |
| English | en |
| Esperanto | eo |
| Estonian | et |
| Ewe | ee |
| Faroese | fo |
| Fijian | fj |
| Finnish | fi |
| French | fr |
| Fulah | ff |
| Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic | gd |
| Galician | gl |
| Ganda | lg |
| Georgian | ka |
| German | de |
| Greek, Modern (1453-) | el |
| Guarani | gn |
| Gujarati | gu |
| Haitian; Haitian Creole | ht |
| Hausa | ha |
| Hebrew | he |
| Herero | hz |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hiri Motu | ho |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Icelandic | is |
| Ido | io |
| Igbo | ig |
| Indonesian | id |
| Interlingua (IALA) | ia |
| Interlingue | ie |
| Inuktitut | iu |
| Inupiaq | ik |
| Irish | ga |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Javanese | jv |
| Kalaallisut; Greenlandic | kl |
| Kannada | kn |
| Kanuri | kr |
| Kashmiri | ks |
| Kazakh | kk |
| Khmer | km |
| Kikuyu; Gikuyu | ki |
| Kinyarwanda | rw |
| Kirghiz | ky |
| Komi | kv |
| Kongo | kg |
| Korean | ko |
| Kuanyama; Kwanyama | kj |
| Kurdish | ku |
| Lao | lo |
| Latin | la |
| Latvian | lv |
| Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish | li |
| Lingala | ln |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Luba-Katanga | lu |
| Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch | lb |
| Macedonian | mk |
| Malagasy | mg |
| Malay | ms |
| Malayalam | ml |
| Maltese | mt |
| Manx | gv |
| Maori | mi |
| Marathi | mr |
| Marshallese | mh |
| Moldavian | mo |
| Mongolian | mn |
| Nauru | na |
| Navajo; Navaho | nv |
| Ndebele, North; North Ndebele | nd |
| Ndebele, South; South Ndebele | nr |
| Ndonga | ng |
| Nepali | ne |
| Northern Sami | se |
| Norwegian | no |
| Norwegian Bokmål; Bokmål, Norwegian | nb |
| Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian | nn |
| Occitan (post 1500); Provençal | oc |
| Ojibwa | oj |
| Oriya | or |
| Oromo | om |
| Ossetian; Ossetic | os |
| Pali | pi |
| Panjabi; Punjabi | pa |
| Persian | fa |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Pushto | ps |
| Quechua | qu |
| Raeto-Romance | rm |
| Romanian | ro |
| Rundi | rn |
| Russian | ru |
| Samoan | sm |
| Sango | sg |
| Sanskrit | sa |
| Sardinian | sc |
| Serbian | sr |
| Shona | sn |
| Sichuan Yi | ii |
| Sindhi | sd |
| Sinhala; Sinhalese | si |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Somali | so |
| Sotho, Southern | st |
| Spanish; Castilian | es |
| Sundanese | su |
| Swahili | sw |
| Swati | ss |
| Swedish | sv |
| Tagalog | tl |
| Tahitian | ty |
| Tajik | tg |
| Tamil | ta |
| Tatar | tt |
| Telugu | te |
| Thai | th |
| Tibetan | bo |
| Tigrinya | ti |
| Tonga (Tonga Islands) | to |
| Tsonga | ts |
| Tswana | tn |
| Turkish | tr |
| Turkmen | tk |
| Twi | tw |
| Uighur; Uyghur | ug |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Urdu | ur |
| Uzbek | uz |
| Venda | ve |
| Vietnamese | vi |
| Volapük | vo |
| Walloon | wa |
| Welsh | cy |
| Western Frisian | fy |
| Wolof | wo |
| Xhosa | xh |
| Yiddish | yi |
| Yoruba | yo |
| Zhuang; Chuang | za |
| Zulu | zu |
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