Language code list for PHP programs Updated on August 15, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor 5 Minutes, 21 Seconds to Read Websites that are geared for multi-language support have special codes you can use to display your admin sections in the language of your preference. An example of where this is used is the interface language of programs like MediaWiki, DokuWiki, or TikiWiki. To do change your administration language, you need a web host with PHP support to use a special code in the configuration file for the software. There are many different codes available that correlate to each different language. The table below is not completely exhaustive; however, most of the available languages and their correlating codes are below. Common program language code list List of available codes for languages aa Afar ab Abkhaz ace Aceh af Afrikaans ak Akan aln Gheg Albanian als Alemannic am Amharic an Aragonese ang Old English anp Angika ar Arabic arc Aramaic arn Mapuche, Mapudungu, Araucanian ary Moroccan Spoken Arabic arz Egyptian Spoken Arabic as Assamese ast Asturian av Avar avk Kotava ay Aymara az Azerbaijani azb South Azerbaijani ba Bashkir bar Bavarian, Austro-Bavarian, South Tyrolean bat-smg Samogitian bcc Southern Balochi bcl Bikol: Central Bicolano language be Belarusian normative be-tarask Belarusian in Taraskievica orthography be-x-old Belarusian in Taraskievica orthography bg Bulgarian bh Bihari macro language bho Bhojpuri bi Bislama bjn Banjarese bm Bambara bn Bengali bo Tibetan bpy Bishnupriya Manipuri bqi Bakthiari br Breton brh Brahui bs Bosnian bug Buginese bxr Buryat (Russia) ca Catalan cbk-zam Zamboanga Chavacano cdo Min Dong ce Chechen ceb Cebuano ch Chamorro cho Choctaw chr Cherokee chy Cheyenne ckb Sorani. co Corsican cps Capiznon áá£, Cree crh Crimean Tatar crh-latn Crimean Tatar Latin crh-cyrl Crimean Tatar, Cyrillic cs Czech csb Cassubian cv Chuvash cy Welsh da Danish de German (“Du”) de-at Austrian German de-ch Swiss Standard German de-formal German – formal address diq Zazaki dsb Lower Sorbian dtp Central Dusun dv Dhivehi dz Dzongkha, Bhutan ee Estonian egl Emilian el Greek eml rumagnal, Emiliano-Romagnolo / Sammarinese en English en-ca Canadian English en-gb British English eo Esperanto es Spanish et Estonian eu Basque ext Extremaduran fa Persian ff Fulfulde, Maasina fi Finnish fit Tornedalen Finnish fiu-vro Võro fj Vakaviti, Fijian fo Faroese fr French frc Cajun French frp Franco-Proven frr North Frisian fur Friulian fy Frisian ga Irish gag Gagauz gan Gan gan-hans Gan gan-hant Gan (Traditional Han) gd Scots Gaelic gl Galician glk Gilaki gn Guarana, Paraguayan got Gothic grc Ancient Greek gsw Alemannic gu Gujarati gv Manx ha Hausa hak Hakka haw Hawaiian he Hebrew hi Hindi hif Fijian Hindi hif-latn Fiji Hindi, latin hil Hiligaynon ho Hiri Motu hr Croatian hsb Upper Sorbian ht Haitian Creole French hu Hungarian hy Armenian hz Herero ia Interlingua (IALA) id Indonesian ie Interlingue (Occidental) ig Igbo ii Sichuan Yi ik Inupiak Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska ike-cans Inuktitut, Eskimo ike-latn Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian Latin ilo Ilokano inh Ingush io Ido is Icelandic it Italian iu Inuktitut (macro language – do ja Japanese jam Jamaican, Creole, English jbo Lojban jut Jutish / Jutlandic jv Javanese ka Georgian kaa Karakalpak kab Kabyle kbd Kabardian kbd-cyrl Kabardian Cyrillic kg Kongo khw Khowar ki Gikuyu kiu Kirmanjki kj Kwanyama kk Kazakh kk-arab Kazakh Arabic kk-cyrl Kazakh Cyrillic kk-latn Kazakh Latin kk-cn Kazakh China kk-kz Kazakh, Kazakhsta kk-tr Kazakh Turkey kl Inuktitut, Greenlandi, Greenlandic, Kalaallisut km Khmer, Central kn Kannada ko Korean ko-kp Korean (DPRK) koi Komi-Permyak kr Kanuri, Central krc Karachay-Balkar kri Krio krj Kinaray-a ks Kashmiri ks-arab Kashmiri ks-deva Kashmiri Devanagari ksh Ripuarian ku Kurdish ku-latn Northern Kurdish ku-arab Northern Kurdish kv Komi-Zyrian kw Cornish ky Kirghiz la Latin lad Ladino lb Luxemburguish lbe Lak lez Lezgi lfn Nova, Lingua Franca Nova lg Ganda li Limburgian lij Ligurian liv Livonian lmo Lombard ln Lingala lo Laotian loz Lozi lt Lithuanian ltg Latgalian lus Mizo/Lushai lv Latvian lzh Literary Chinese lzz Laz mai Maithili map-bms Banyumasan mdf Moksha mg Malagasy mh Marshallese mhr Eastern Mari mi Maori min Minangkabau mk Macedonian ml Malayalam mn Halh Mongolian mo Moldovan mr Marathi mrj Hill Mari ms Malay mt Maltese mus Muskogee/Creek mwl Mirandese my Burmese myv Erzya mzn Mazanderani na Nauruan nah Nahuatl nan Min-nan nap Neapolitan nb Norwegian, Bokmal nds Low German or Low Saxon nds-nl aka Nedersaksisch: Dutch Low Saxon ne Nepali new Newar / Nepal Bhasha ng Ndonga niu Niuean nl Dutch nl-informal Dutch informal nn Norwegian Nynorsk no Norwegian nov Novial nrm Norman nso Leboa, Northern Sotho nv Navajo ny Chichewa oc Occitan om Oromo or Oriya os Ossetic pa Eastern Punjabi pag Pangasinan pam Pampanga pap Papiamentu pcd Picard pdc Pennsylvania German pdt Plautdietsch/Mennonite Low German pfl Palatinate German pi Pali pih Pitkern, Norfuk pl Polish pms Piedmontese pnb Western Punjabi pnt Pontic/Pontic Greek prg Prussian ps Pashto, pt Portuguese pt-br Brasil, Brazilian Portuguese qu Southern Quechua qug Kichwa/Northern Quechua rgn Romagnol rif Tarifit rm Raeto-Romance rmy Vlax Romany rn Rundi/Kirundi/Urundi ro Romanian roa-rup Aromanian roa-tara Tarantino ru Russian rue Rusyn rup Aromanian ruq Megleno-Romanian ruq-cyrl Megleno-Romanian Cyrillic ruq-latn Megleno-Romanian ruq-latn Megleno-Romanian rw Kinyarwanda sa Sanskrit sah Sakha sat Santali sc Sardinian scn Sicilian sco Scots sd Sindhi sdc Sassarese se Northern Sami sei Seri sg Sango/Sangho sgs Samogitian sh Serbocroatian shi Tachelhit shi-tfng Tachelhit shi-latn Tachelhit si Sinhalese simple Simple English sk Slovak sl Slovenian sli Lower Selisian sm Samoan sma Southern Sami sn Shona so Somali sq Albanian sr srpski, Serbian sr-ec Serbian Cyrillic ekavian sr-el Serbian Latin ekavian srn Sranan Tongo ss Swati st Southern Sotho stq Saterland Frisian su Sundanese sv Swedish sw Swahili szl Silesian ta Tamil tcy Tulu te Telugu tet Tetun tg Tajiki tg-cyrl Tajiki Cyrllic tg-latn Tajiki Latin th Thai ti Tigrinya tk Turkmen tl Tagalog tly Talysh tn Setswana to Tonga tokipona Toki Pona tpi Tok Pisin tr Turkish tru Turoyo ts Tsonga tt Tatar tt-cyrl Tatar Cyrillic tt-latn Tatar tum Tumbuka tw Twi ty Tahitian tyv Tyvan udm Udmurt ug Uyghurche, Uyghur ug-arab Uyghur Arabic ug-latn Uyghur Latin uk Ukrainian ur Urdu uz Uzbek ve Venda vec Venetian vep Veps vi Vietnamese vls West Flemish vmf Upper Franconian, vo Volapak vot Vod/Votian vro Võro wa Walloon war Waray-Waray wo Wolof wuu Wu Chinese xal Kalmyk-Oirat xh Xhosan xmf Mingrelian yi Yiddish yo Yoruba yue Cantonese za Zhuang zea Zeeng Chinese zh-classical Classical Chinese/Literary Chinese zh-cn Chinese (PRC) zh-hans Mandarin Chinese zh-hant Mandarin Chinese (Traditional Chinese script) zh-hk Chinese (Hong Kong) zh-min-nan Min-nan zh-mo Chinese Macau zh-my Chinese, Malaysia zh-sg Chinese, Singapore zh-tw Chinese, Taiwan zh-yue Cantonese zu Zulu Share this Article Related Articles How to Fix the “550 No Such User Here” Email Error What is Node.js? 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