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Locale codes

Locale code has the following format: language_Script_COUNTRY_VARIANT, where:

• language - 2 or 3-letter language code, in lower case.

• Script - optional, 4-letter script code, in title case.

• COUNTRY - optional, 2-letter country code, in upper case.

• VARIANT - optional, language variant, region and, sort order. A variant can have any number of underscored keywords.

List of supported language codes

Language code	Name
aa	Afar
ab	Abkhazian
ace	Achinese
ach	Acoli
ada	Adangme
ady	Adyghe
ae	Avestan
aeb	Tunisian Arabic
af	Afrikaans
afh	Afrihili
agq	Aghem
ain	Ainu
agr	Aguaruna
ak	Akan
akk	Akkadian
akz	Alabama
ale	Aleut
aln	Gheg Albanian
alt	Southern Altai
am	Amharic
an	Aragonese
ang	Old English
anp	Angika
ar	Arabic
arc	Aramaic
arn	Mapudungun
aro	Araona
arp	Arapaho
arq	Algerian Arabic
ars	Najdi Arabic
arw	Arawak
ary	Moroccan Arabic
arz	Egyptian Arabic
as	Assamese
asa	Asu
ase	American Sign Language
ast	Asturian
av	Avaric
avk	Kotava
awa	Awadhi
ayc	Southern Aymara
ay	Aymara
az	Azerbaijani
ba	Bashkir
bal	Baluchi
ban	Balinese
bar	Bavarian
bas	Bassa
bax	Bamun
bbc	Batak Toba
bbj	Ghomala
be	Belarusian
bej	Beja
bem	Bemba
ber	Berber
bew	Betawi
bez	Bena
bfd	Bafut
bfq	Badaga
bg	Bulgarian
bhb	Bhili
bgn	Western Balochi
bho	Bhojpuri
bi	Bislama
bik	Bikol
bin	Bini
bjn	Banjar
bkm	Kom
bla	Siksika
bm	Bambara
bn	Bengali
bo	Tibetan
bpy	Bishnupriya
bqi	Bakhtiari
br	Breton
brh	Brahui
brx	Bodo
bs	Bosnian
bss	Akoose
bua	Buriat
bug	Buginese
bum	Bulu
byn	Bilin
byv	Medumba
ca	Catalan
cad	Caddo
car	Carib
cay	Cayuga
cch	Atsam
ccp	Chakma
ce	Chechen
ceb	Cebuano
cgg	Chiga
ch	Chamorro
chb	Chibcha
chg	Chagatai
chk	Chuukese
chm	Mari
chn	Chinook Jargon
cho	Choctaw
chp	Chipewyan
chr	Cherokee
chy	Cheyenne
cic	Chickasaw
ckb	Central Kurdish
csb	Kashubian
cmn	Mandarin Chinese
co	Corsican
cop	Coptic
cps	Capiznon
cr	Cree
crh	Crimean Tatar
crs	Seselwa Creole French
cs	Czech
csb	Kashubian
cu	Church Slavic
cv	Chuvash
cy	Welsh
da	Danish
dak	Dakota
dar	Dargwa
dav	Taita
de	German
del	Delaware
den	Slave
dgr	Dogrib
din	Dinka
dje	Zarma
doi	Dogri
dsb	Lower Sorbian
dtp	Central Dusun
dua	Duala
dum	Middle Dutch
dv	Dhivehi
dyo	Jola-Fonyi
dyu	Dyula
dz	Dzongkha
dzg	Dazaga
ebu	Embu
ee	Ewe
efi	Efik
egl	Emilian
egy	Ancient Egyptian
eka	Ekajuk
el	Greek
elx	Elamite
en	English
enm	Middle English
eo	Esperanto
es	Spanish
esu	Central Yupik
et	Estonian
eu	Basque
ewo	Ewondo
ext	Extremaduran
fa	Persian
fan	Fang
fat	Fanti
ff	Fulah
fi	Finnish
fil	Filipino
fit	Tornedalen Finnish
fj	Fijian
fo	Faroese
fon	Fon
fr	French
frc	Cajun French
frm	Middle French
fro	Old French
frp	Arpitan
frr	Northern Frisian
frs	Eastern Frisian
fur	Friulian
fy	Western Frisian
ga	Irish
gaa	Ga
gag	Gagauz
gan	Gan Chinese
gay	Gayo
gba	Gbaya
gbz	Zoroastrian Dari
gd	Scottish Gaelic
gez	Geez
gil	Gilbertese
gl	Galician
glk	Gilaki
gmh	Middle High German
gn	Guarani
goh	Old High German
gom	Goan Konkani
gon	Gondi
gor	Gorontalo
got	Gothic
grb	Grebo
grc	Ancient Greek
gsw	Swiss German
gu	Gujarati
guc	Wayuu
gur	Frafra
guz	Gusii
gv	Manx
gwi	Gwichʼin
ha	Hausa
hai	Haida
hak	Hakka Chinese
haw	Hawaiian
he, iw	Hebrew
hi	Hindi
hif	Fiji Hindi
hil	Hiligaynon
hit	Hittite
hmn	Hmong
ho	Hiri Motu
hne	Chhattisgarhi
hr	Croatian
hsb	Upper Sorbian
hsn	Xiang Chinese
ht	Haitian
hu	Hungarian
hup	Hupa
hus	Huastec
hy	Armenian
hz	Herero
ia	Interlingua
iba	Iban
ibb	Ibibio
id, in	Indonesian
ie	Interlingue
ig	Igbo
ii	Sichuan Yi
ik	Inupiaq
ilo	Iloko
inh	Ingush
io	Ido
is	Icelandic
it	Italian
iu	Inuktitut
izh	Ingrian
ja	Japanese
jam	Jamaican Creole English
jbo	Lojban
jgo	Ngomba
jmc	Machame
jpr	Judeo-Persian
jrb	Judeo-Arabic
jut	Jutish
jv	Javanese
ka	Georgian
kaa	Kara-Kalpak
kab	Kabyle
kac	Kachin
kaj	Jju
kam	Kamba
kaw	Kawi
kbd	Kabardian
kbl	Kanembu
kcg	Tyap
kde	Makonde
kea	Kabuverdianu
ken	Kenyang
kfo	Koro
kg	Kongo
kgp	Kaingang
kha	Khasi
kho	Khotanese
khq	Koyra Chiini
khw	Khowar
ki	Kikuyu
kiu	Kirmanjki
kj	Kuanyama
kk	Kazakh
kkj	Kako
kl	Kalaallisut
kln	Kalenjin
km	Central Khmer
kmb	Kimbundu
kn	Kannada
ko	Korean
koi	Komi-Permyak
kok	Konkani
kos	Kosraean
kpe	Kpelle
kr	Kanuri
krc	Karachay-Balkar
kri	Krio
krj	Kinaray-a
krl	Karelian
kru	Kurukh
ks	Kashmiri
ksb	Shambala
ksf	Bafia
ksh	Colognian
ku	Kurdish
kum	Kumyk
kut	Kutenai
kv	Komi
kw	Cornish
ky	Kirghiz
lag	Langi
la	Latin
lad	Ladino
lag	Langi
lah	Lahnda
lam	Lamba
lb	Luxembourgish
lez	Lezghian
lfn	Lingua Franca Nova
lg	Ganda
li	Limburgan
lij	Ligurian
liv	Livonian
lkt	Lakota
lmo	Lombard
ln	Lingala
lo	Lao
lol	Mongo
lou	Louisiana Creole
loz	Lozi
lrc	Northern Luri
lt	Lithuanian
ltg	Latgalian
lu	Luba-Katanga
lua	Luba-Lulua
lui	Luiseno
lun	Lunda
luo	Luo
lus	Mizo
luy	Luyia
lv	Latvian
lzh	Literary Chinese
lzz	Laz
mad	Madurese
maf	Mafa
mag	Magahi
mai	Maithili
mak	Makasar
man	Mandingo
mas	Masai
mde	Maba
mdf	Moksha
mdr	Mandar
men	Mende
mer	Meru
mfe	Morisyen
mg	Malagasy
mga	Middle Irish
mgh	Makhuwa-Meetto
mgo	Metaʼ
mh	Marshallese
mhr	Eastern Mari
mi	Māori
mic	Mi'kmaq
min	Minangkabau
miq	Mískito
mjw	Karbi
mk	Macedonian
ml	Malayalam
mn	Mongolian
mnc	Manchu
mni	Manipuri
mnw	Mon
mos	Mossi
moh	Mohawk
mr	Marathi
mrj	Western Mari
ms	Malay
mt	Maltese
mua	Mundang
mus	Muscogee
mwl	Mirandese
mwr	Marwari
mwv	Mentawai
my	Burmese
mye	Myene
myv	Erzya
mzn	Mazanderani
na	Nauru
nah	Nahuatl
nan	Min Nan Chinese
nap	Neapolitan
naq	Nama
nan	Min Nan Chinese
nb, no	Norwegian Bokmål
nd	North Ndebele
nds	Low German
ne	Nepali
new	Newari
nhn	Central Nahuatl
ng	Ndonga
nia	Nias
niu	Niuean
njo	Ao Naga
nl	Dutch
nmg	Kwasio
nn	Norwegian Nynorsk
nnh	Ngiemboon
nog	Nogai
non	Old Norse
nov	Novial
nqo	N'ko
nr	South Ndebele
nso	Pedi
nus	Nuer
nv	Navajo
nwc	Classical Newari
ny	Nyanja
nym	Nyamwezi
nyn	Nyankole
nyo	Nyoro
nzi	Nzima
oc	Occitan
oj	Ojibwa
om	Oromo
or	Odia
os	Ossetic
osa	Osage
ota	Ottoman Turkish
pa	Panjabi
pag	Pangasinan
pal	Pahlavi
pam	Pampanga
pap	Papiamento
pau	Palauan
pcd	Picard
pcm	Nigerian Pidgin
pdc	Pennsylvania German
pdt	Plautdietsch
peo	Old Persian
pfl	Palatine German
phn	Phoenician
pi	Pali
pl	Polish
pms	Piedmontese
pnt	Pontic
pon	Pohnpeian
pr	Pirate
prg	Prussian
pro	Old Provençal
prs	Dari
ps	Pushto
pt	Portuguese
qu	Quechua
quc	K'iche
qug	Chimborazo Highland Quichua
quy	Ayacucho Quechua
quz	Cusco Quechua
raj	Rajasthani
rap	Rapanui
rar	Rarotongan
rgn	Romagnol
rif	Riffian
rm	Romansh
rn	Rundi
ro	Romanian
rof	Rombo
rom	Romany
rtm	Rotuman
ru	Russian
rue	Rusyn
rug	Roviana
rup	Aromanian
rw	Kinyarwanda
rwk	Rwa
sa	Sanskrit
sad	Sandawe
sah	Sakha
sam	Samaritan Aramaic
saq	Samburu
sas	Sasak
sat	Santali
saz	Saurashtra
sba	Ngambay
sbp	Sangu
sc	Sardinian
scn	Sicilian
sco	Scots
sd	Sindhi
sdc	Sassarese Sardinian
sdh	Southern Kurdish
se	Northern Sami
see	Seneca
seh	Sena
sei	Seri
sel	Selkup
ses	Koyraboro Senni
sg	Sango
sga	Old Irish
sgs	Samogitian
sh	Serbo-Croatian
shi	Tachelhit
shn	Shan
shs	Shuswap
shu	Chadian Arabic
si	Sinhala
sid	Sidamo
sk	Slovak
sl	Slovenian
sli	Lower Silesian
sly	Selayar
sm	Samoan
sma	Southern Sami
smj	Lule Sami
smn	Inari Sami
sms	Skolt Sami
sn	Shona
snk	Soninke
so	Somali
sog	Sogdien
son	Songhai
sq	Albanian
sr	Serbian
srn	Sranan Tongo
srr	Serer
ss	Swati
ssy	Saho
st	Southern Sotho
stq	Saterland Frisian
su	Sundanese
suk	Sukuma
sus	Susu
sux	Sumerian
sv	Swedish
sw	Swahili
swb	Comorian
swc	Congo Swahili
syc	Classical Syriac
syr	Syriac
szl	Silesian
ta	Tamil
tcy	Tulu
te	Telugu
tem	Timne
teo	Teso
ter	Tereno
tet	Tetum
tg	Tajik
th	Thai
the	Chitwania Tharu
ti	Tigrinya
tig	Tigre
tiv	Tiv
tk	Turkmen
tkl	Tokelau
tkr	Tsakhur
tl	Tagalog
tlh	Klingon
tli	Tlingit
tly	Talysh
tmh	Tamashek
tn	Tswana
to	Tongan
tog	Nyasa Tonga
tpi	Tok Pisin
tr	Turkish
tru	Turoyo
trv	Taroko
ts	Tsonga
tsd	Tsakonian
tsi	Tsimshian
tt	Tatar
ttt	Muslim Tat
tum	Tumbuka
tvl	Tuvalu
tw	Twi
twq	Tasawaq
ty	Tahitian
tyv	Tuvinian
tzm	Central Atlas Tamazight
udm	Udmurt
ug	Uyghur
uga	Ugaritic
uk	Ukrainian
umb	Umbundu
unm	Unami
ur	Urdu
uz	Uzbek
vai	Vai
ve	Venda
vec	Venetian
vep	Veps
vi	Vietnamese
vls	West Flemish
vmf	Main-Franconian
vo	Volapük
vot	Votic
vro	Võro
vun	Vunjo
wa	Walloon
wae	Walser
wal	Wolaytta
war	Waray
was	Washo
wbp	Warlpiri
wo	Wolof
wuu	Wu Chinese
xal	Kalmyk
xh	Xhosa
xmf	Mingrelian
xog	Soga
yao	Yao
yap	Yapese
yav	Yangben
ybb	Yemba
yi	Yiddish
yo	Yoruba
yrl	Nheengatu
yue	Yue Chinese
yuw	Papua New Guinea
za	Zhuang
zap	Zapotec
zbl	Blissymbols
zea	Zeelandic
zen	Zenaga
zgh	Standard Moroccan Tamazight
zh	Chinese
zu	Zulu
zun	Zuni
zza	Zaza

List of supported script codes

Script code	Name
Adlm	Adlam
Afak	Afaka
Aghb	Caucasian Albanian
Ahom	Ahom
Arab	Arabic
Armi	Imperial Aramaic
Armn	Armenian
Avst	Avestan
Bali	Balinese
Bamu	Bamum
Bass	Bassa Vah
Batk	Batak
Beng	Bengali
Bhks	Bhaiksuki
Blis	Blissymbols
Bopo	Bopomofo
Brah	Brahmi
Brai	Braille
Bugi	Buginese
Buhd	Buhid
Cakm	Chakma
Cans	Unified Canadian Aboriginal
Cari	Carian
Cham	Cham
Cher	Cherokee
Chrs	Chorasmian
Cirt	Cirth
Copt	Coptic
Cpmn	Cypro-Minoan
Cprt	Cypriot
Cyrl	Cyrillic
Deva	Devanagari
Diak	Dives Akuru
Dogr	Dogra
Dsrt	Deseret
Dupl	Duployan
Egyd	Egyptian demotic
Egyh	Egyptian hieratic
Egyp	Egyptian hieroglyphs
Elba	Elbasan
Elym	Elymaic
Eth