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title: "Language code list for PHP programs"
description: "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..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/language-code-list/
date: 2013-02-06
modified: 2023-08-15
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Website"]
type: post
lang: en
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# Language code list for PHP programs

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](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/mediawiki/), [DokuWiki](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/dokuwiki/), or [TikiWiki](edu/tiki-wiki). To do change your administration language, you need a [web host with PHP support](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/php-hosting) 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 |