Language Codes
Various metadata fields require a language code. The table below shows a comprehensive list of codes for different languages. You should use the short Language Code in the metadata field value, for example the code for English is en, the code for Spanish is es.
| Language Code | Language |
|---|---|
| aa | Afar |
| ab | Abkhazian |
| ae | Avestan |
| af | Afrikaans |
| ak | Akan |
| am | Amharic |
| an | Aragonese |
| ar | Arabic |
| ar-AE | Arabic; U.A.E. |
| ar-BH | Arabic; Bahrain |
| ar-DZ | Arabic; Algeria |
| ar-EG | Arabic; Egypt |
| ar-IQ | Arabic; Iraq |
| ar-JO | Arabic; Jordan |
| ar-KW | Arabic; Kuwait |
| ar-LB | Arabic; Lebanon |
| ar-LY | Arabic; Libya |
| ar-MA | Arabic; Morocco |
| ar-OM | Arabic; Oman |
| ar-QA | Arabic; Qatar |
| ar-SA | Arabic; Saudi Arabia |
| ar-SY | Arabic; Syria |
| ar-TN | Arabic; Tunisia |
| ar-YE | Arabic; Yemen |
| as | Assamese |
| av | Avaric |
| ay | Aymara |
| az | Azerbaijani |
| ba | Bashkir |
| be | Belarusian |
| bg | Bulgarian |
| bh | Bihari languages |
| bi | Bislama |
| bm | Bambara |
| bn | Bengali |
| bo | Tibetan |
| br | Breton |
| bs | Bosnian |
| ca | Catalan; Valencian |
| ce | Chechen |
| ch | Chamorro |
| co | Corsican |
| cr | Cree |
| cs | Czech |
| cu | Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic |
| cv | Chuvash |
| cy | Welsh |
| da | Danish |
| de | German |
| de-AT | German; Austria |
| de-CH | German; Switzerland |
| de-LI | German; Liechtenstein |
| de-LU | German; Luxembourg |
| dv | Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian |
| dz | Dzongkha |
| ee | Ewe |
| el | Greek, Modern |
| en | English |
| en-AU | English; Australia |
| en-BZ | English; Belize |
| en-CA | English; Canada |
| en-GB | English; United Kingdom |
| en-IE | English; Ireland |
| en-JM | English; Jamaica |
| en-NZ | English; New Zealand |
| en-TT | English; Trinidad |
| en-US | English; United States |
| en-ZA | English; South Africa |
| eo | Esperanto |
| es | Spanish |
| es-AR | Spanish; Argentina |
| es-BO | Spanish; Bolivia |
| es-CL | Spanish; Chile |
| es-CO | Spanish; Colombia |
| es-CR | Spanish; Costa Rica |
| es-DO | Spanish; Dominican Republic |
| es-EC | Spanish; Ecuador |
| es-GT | Spanish; Guatemala |
| es-HN | Spanish; Honduras |
| es-MX | Spanish; Mexico |
| es-NI | Spanish; Nicaragua |
| es-PA | Spanish; Panama |
| es-PE | Spanish; Peru |
| es-PR | Spanish; Puerto Rico |
| es-PY | Spanish; Paraguay |
| es-SV | Spanish; El Salvador |
| es-UY | Spanish; Uruguay |
| es-VE | Spanish; Venezuela |
| et | Estonian |
| eu | Basque |
| fa | Persian |
| ff | Fulah |
| fi | Finnish |
| fj | Fijian |
| fo | Faroese |
| fr | French |
| fr-BE | French; Belgium |
| fr-CA | French; Canada |
| fr-CH | French; Switzerland |
| fr-LU | French; Luxembourg |
| fy | Western Frisian |
| ga | Irish |
| gd | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic |
| gl | Galician |
| gn | Guarani |
| gu | Gujarati |
| gv | Manx |
| ha | Hausa |
| he | Hebrew |
| hi | Hindi |
| ho | Hiri Motu |
| hr | Croatian |
| ht | Haitian; Haitian Creole |
| hu | Hungarian |
| hy | Armenian |
| hz | Herero |
| ia | Interlingua; International Auxiliary Language Association |
| id | Indonesian |
| ie | Interlingue; Occidental |
| ig | Igbo |
| ii | Sichuan Yi; Nuosu |
| ik | Inupiaq |
| io | Ido |
| is | Icelandic |
| it | Italian |
| it-CH | Italian; Switzerland |
| iu | Inuktitut |
| ja | Japanese |
| jv | Javanese |
| ka | Georgian |
| kg | Kongo |
| ki | Kikuyu; Gikuyu |
| kj | Kuanyama; Kwanyama |
| kk | Kazakh |
| kl | Kalaallisut; Greenlandic |
| km | Central Khmer |
| kn | Kannada |
| ko | Korean |
| kr | Kanuri |
| ks | Kashmiri |
| ku | Kurdish |
| kv | Komi |
| kw | Cornish |
| ky | Kirghiz; Kyrgyz |
| la | Latin |
| lb | Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch |
| lg | Ganda |
| li | Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish |
| ln | Lingala |
| lo | Lao |
| lt | Lithuanian |
| lu | Luba-Katanga |
| lv | Latvian |
| mg | Malagasy |
| mh | Marshallese |
| mi | Maori |
| mk | Macedonian |
| ml | Malayalam |
| mn | Mongolian |
| mr | Marathi |
| ms | Malay |
| mt | Maltese |
| my | Burmese |
| na | Nauru |
| nb | Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål |
| nd | Ndebele, North; North Ndebele |
| ne | Nepali |
| ng | Ndonga |
| nl | Dutch |
| nl-BE | Dutch; Belgium |
| nn | Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian |
| no | Norwegian |
| nr | Ndebele, South; South Ndebele |
| nv | Navajo; Navaho |
| ny | Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja |
| oc | Occitan; Provençal |
| oj | Ojibwa |
| om | Oromo |
| or | Oriya |
| os | Ossetian; Ossetic |
| pa | Panjabi; Punjabi |
| pi | Pali |
| pl | Polish |
| ps | Pushto; Pashto |
| pt | Portuguese |
| pt-BR | Portuguese; Brazil |
| qu | Quechua |
| rm | Romansh |
| rn | Rundi |
| ro | Romanian |
| ro-MD | Romanian; Republic of Moldova |
| ru | Russian |
| ru-MD | Russian; Republic of Moldova |
| rw | Kinyarwanda |
| sa | Sanskrit |
| sc | Sardinian |
| sd | Sindhi |
| se | Northern Sami |
| sg | Sango |
| si | Sinhala; Sinhalese |
| sk | Slovak |
| sl | Slovenian |
| sm | Samoan |
| sn | Shona |
| so | Somali |
| sq | Albanian |
| sr | Serbian |
| ss | Swati |
| st | Sotho, Southern |
| su | Sundanese |
| sv | Swedish |
| sv-FI | Swedish; Finland |
| sw | Swahili |
| ta | Tamil |
| te | Telugu |
| tg | Tajik |
| th | Thai |
| ti | Tigrinya |
| tk | Turkmen |
| tl | Tagalog |
| tn | Tswana |
| to | Tonga; Tonga Islands |
| tr | Turkish |
| ts | Tsonga |
| tt | Tatar |
| tw | Twi |
| ty | Tahitian |
| 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 |
| zh | Chinese |
| zh-CN | Chinese; PRC |
| zh-HK | Chinese; Hong Kong |
| zh-SG | Chinese; Singapore |
| zh-TW | Chinese; Taiwan |
| zu | Zulu |