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HTML ISO Language Code Reference

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HTML Language Code Reference


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ISO Language Codes


The HTML lang attribute can be used to declare the language of a Web page or a portion of a Web page. This is meant to assist search
engines and browsers.

According to the W3C recommendation you should declare the primary language for each Web page with the lang attribute inside the
<html> tag, like this:

<html lang="en">
...
</html>

In XHTML, the language is declared inside the <html> tag as follows:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">


...
</html>

ISO 639-1 Language Codes


ISO 639-1 defines abbreviations for languages.

In HTML and XHTML they can be used in the lang and xml:lang attributes.

See also: next reference for country codes.

Language ISO 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 (Bangla) bn

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Bihari
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bh

Bislama bi

Bosnian bs

Breton br

Bulgarian bg

Burmese my

Catalan ca

Chamorro ch

Chechen ce

Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja ny

Chinese zh

Chinese (Simplified) zh-Hans

Chinese (Traditional) zh-Hant

Chuvash cv

Cornish kw

Corsican co

Cree cr

Croatian hr

Czech cs

Danish da

Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian dv

Dutch nl

Dzongkha dz

English en

Esperanto eo

Estonian et

Ewe ee

Faroese fo

Fijian fj

Finnish fi

French fr

Fula, Fulah, Pulaar, Pular ff

Galician gl

Gaelic (Scottish) gd

Gaelic (Manx) gv

Georgian ka

German de

Greek el

Greenlandic kl

Guarani gn

Gujarati gu

Haitian Creole ht

Hausa ha

Hebrew he
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Herero
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Hindi hi

Hiri Motu ho

Hungarian hu

Icelandic is

Ido io

Igbo ig

Indonesian id, in

Interlingua ia

Interlingue ie

Inuktitut iu

Inupiak ik

Irish ga

Italian it

Japanese ja

Javanese jv

Kalaallisut, Greenlandic kl

Kannada kn

Kanuri kr

Kashmiri ks

Kazakh kk

Khmer km

Kikuyu ki

Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) rw

Kirundi rn

Kyrgyz ky

Komi kv

Kongo kg

Korean ko

Kurdish ku

Kwanyama kj

Lao lo

Latin la

Latvian (Lettish) lv

Limburgish ( Limburger) li

Lingala ln

Lithuanian lt

Luga-Katanga lu

Luganda, Ganda lg

Luxembourgish lb

Manx gv

Macedonian mk

Malagasy mg

Malay ms
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Malayalam
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Maltese mt

Maori mi

Marathi mr

Marshallese mh

Moldavian mo

Mongolian mn

Nauru na

Navajo nv

Ndonga ng

Northern Ndebele nd

Nepali ne

Norwegian no

Norwegian bokmål nb

Norwegian nynorsk nn

Nuosu ii

Occitan oc

Ojibwe oj

Old Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian cu

Oriya or

Oromo (Afaan Oromo) om

Ossetian os

Pāli pi

Pashto, Pushto ps

Persian (Farsi) fa

Polish pl

Portuguese pt

Punjabi (Eastern) pa

Quechua qu

Romansh rm

Romanian ro

Russian ru

Sami se

Samoan sm

Sango sg

Sanskrit sa

Serbian sr

Serbo-Croatian sh

Sesotho st

Setswana tn

Shona sn

Sichuan Yi ii

Sindhi sd

Sinhalese si
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Siswati
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ss

Slovak sk

Slovenian sl

Somali so

Southern Ndebele nr

Spanish es

Sundanese su

Swahili (Kiswahili) sw

Swati ss

Swedish sv

Tagalog tl

Tahitian ty

Tajik tg

Tamil ta

Tatar tt

Telugu te

Thai th

Tibetan bo

Tigrinya ti

Tonga to

Tsonga ts

Turkish tr

Turkmen tk

Twi tw

Uyghur ug

Ukrainian uk

Urdu ur

Uzbek uz

Venda ve

Vietnamese vi

Volapük vo

Wallon wa

Welsh cy

Wolof wo

Western Frisian fy

Xhosa xh

Yiddish yi, ji

Yoruba yo

Zhuang, Chuang za

Zulu zu

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