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Language codes
The following table contains language codes that can be used in HTML documents (see the pages for the hrefLang, lang and xml:lang attributes):
| Language Code | Description |
|---|---|
| af | Afrikaans |
| sq | Albanian |
| ar-dz | Arabic (Algeria) |
| ar-bh | Arabic (Bahrain) |
| 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 (SaudiArabia) |
| ar-sy | Arabic (Syria) |
| ar-tn | Arabic (Tunisia) |
| ar-ae | Arabic (U.A.E.) |
| ar-ye | Arabic (Yemen) |
| eu | Basque |
| be | Belarusian |
| bg | Bulgarian |
| ca | Catalan |
| zh-hk | Chinese (HongKongSAR) |
| zh-cn | Chinese (PRC) |
| zh-sg | Chinese (Singapore) |
| zh-tw | Chinese (Taiwan) |
| hr | Croatian |
| cs | Czech |
| da | Danish |
| nl-be | Dutch (Belgium) |
| nl | Dutch (Standard) |
| en | English |
| en-au | English (Australia) |
| en-bz | English (Belize) |
| en-ca | English (Canada) |
| en-ie | English (Ireland) |
| en-jm | English (Jamaica) |
| en-nz | English (NewZealand) |
| en-za | English (SouthAfrica) |
| en-tt | English (Trinidad) |
| en-gb | English (UnitedKingdom) |
| en-us | English (UnitedStates) |
| et | Estonian |
| fo | Faeroese |
| fa | Farsi |
| fi | Finnish |
| fr-be | French (Belgium) |
| fr-ca | French (Canada) |
| fr-lu | French (Luxembourg) |
| fr | French (Standard) |
| fr-ch | French (Switzerland) |
| mk | FYROMacedonian |
| gd-ie | Gaelic (Ireland) |
| gd | Gaelic (Scotland) |
| de-at | German (Austria) |
| de-li | German (Liechtenstein) |
| de-lu | German (Luxembourg) |
| de | German (Standard) |
| de-ch | German (Switzerland) |
| el | Greek |
| he | Hebrew |
| hi | Hindi |
| hu | Hungarian |
| is | Icelandic |
| id | Indonesian |
| it | Italian (Standard) |
| it-ch | Italian (Switzerland) |
| ja | Japanese |
| ko | Korean |
| lv | Latvian |
| lt | Lithuanian |
| ms | Malaysian |
| mt | Maltese |
| no | Norwegian |
| pl | Polish |
| pt-br | Portuguese (Brazil) |
| pt | Portuguese (Portugal) |
| rm | Rhaeto-Romanic |
| ro | Romanian |
| ro-mo | Romanian (Moldavia) |
| ru | Russian |
| ru-mo | Russian (Moldavia) |
| sz | Sami (Lappish) |
| sr | Serbian |
| sk | Slovak |
| sl | Slovenian |
| sb | Sorbian |
| es-ar | Spanish (Argentina) |
| es-bo | Spanish (Bolivia) |
| es-cl | Spanish (Chile) |
| es-co | Spanish (Colombia) |
| es-cr | Spanish (CostaRica) |
| es-do | Spanish (DominicanRepublic) |
| es-ec | Spanish (Ecuador) |
| es-sv | Spanish (ElSalvador) |
| es-gt | Spanish (Guatemala) |
| es-hn | Spanish (Honduras) |
| es-mx | Spanish (Mexico) |
| es-ni | Spanish (Nicaragua) |
| es-pa | Spanish (Panama) |
| es-py | Spanish (Paraguay) |
| es-pe | Spanish (Peru) |
| es-pr | Spanish (PuertoRico) |
| es | Spanish |
| es-uy | Spanish (Uruguay) |
| es-ve | Spanish (Venezuela) |
| sx | Sutu |
| sv | Swedish |
| sv-fi | Swedish (Finland) |
| th | Thai |
| ts | Tsonga |
| tn | Tswana |
| tr | Turkish |
| uk | Ukrainian |
| ur | Urdu |
| ve | Venda |
| vi | Vietnamese |
| xh | Xhosa |
| ji | Yiddish |
| zu | Zulu |
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