HTML Language Code Reference
ISO Language Codes
You should always include the
lang
attribute inside the
<html>
tag, to declare the language of the
Web page. This is meant to assist search engines and browsers:
<html lang="en">
...
</html>
In XHTML, the language is declared inside the <html>
tag as follows:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
...
</html>
ISO 639-1 Language Codes
ISO 639-1 defines abbreviations for languages:
See also: Reference for Country Codes.
Language | ISO Code |
---|---|
Abkhazian | ab |
Afar | aa |
Afrikaans | af |
Akan | ak |
Albanian | sq |
Amharic | am |
Arabic | ar |
Aragonese | an |
Armenian | hy |
Assamese | as |
Avaric | av |
Avestan | ae |
Aymara | ay |
Azerbaijani | az |
Bambara | bm |
Bashkir | ba |
Basque | eu |
Belarusian | be |
Bengali (Bangla) | bn |
Bihari | bh |
Bislama | bi |
Bosnian | bs |
Breton | br |
Bulgarian | bg |
Burmese | my |
Catalan | ca |
Chamorro | ch |
Chechen | ce |
Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja | ny |
Chinese | zh |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh-Hans |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh-Hant |
Chuvash | cv |
Cornish | kw |
Corsican | co |
Cree | cr |
Croatian | hr |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian | dv |
Dutch | nl |
Dzongkha | dz |
English | en |
Esperanto | eo |
Estonian | et |
Ewe | ee |
Faroese | fo |
Fijian | fj |
Finnish | fi |
French | fr |
Fula, Fulah, Pulaar, Pular | ff |
Galician | gl |
Gaelic (Scottish) | gd |
Gaelic (Manx) | gv |
Georgian | ka |
German | de |
Greek | el |
Greenlandic | kl |
Guarani | gn |
Gujarati | gu |
Haitian Creole | ht |
Hausa | ha |
Hebrew | he |
Herero | hz |
Hindi | hi |
Hiri Motu | ho |
Hungarian | hu |
Icelandic | is |
Ido | io |
Igbo | ig |
Indonesian | id, in |
Interlingua | ia |
Interlingue | ie |
Inuktitut | iu |
Inupiak | ik |
Irish | ga |
Italian | it |
Japanese | ja |
Javanese | jv |
Kalaallisut, Greenlandic | kl |
Kannada | kn |
Kanuri | kr |
Kashmiri | ks |
Kazakh | kk |
Khmer | km |
Kikuyu | ki |
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) | rw |
Kirundi | rn |
Kyrgyz | ky |
Komi | kv |
Kongo | kg |
Korean | ko |
Kurdish | ku |
Kwanyama | kj |
Lao | lo |
Latin | la |
Latvian (Lettish) | lv |
Limburgish ( Limburger) | li |
Lingala | ln |
Lithuanian | lt |
Luga-Katanga | lu |
Luganda, Ganda | lg |
Luxembourgish | lb |
Manx | gv |
Macedonian | mk |
Malagasy | mg |
Malay | ms |
Malayalam | ml |
Maltese | mt |
Maori | mi |
Marathi | mr |
Marshallese | mh |
Moldavian | mo |
Mongolian | mn |
Nauru | na |
Navajo | nv |
Ndonga | ng |
Northern Ndebele | nd |
Nepali | ne |
Norwegian | no |
Norwegian bokmål | nb |
Norwegian nynorsk | nn |
Nuosu | ii |
Occitan | oc |
Ojibwe | oj |
Old Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian | cu |
Oriya | or |
Oromo (Afaan Oromo) | om |
Ossetian | os |
Pāli | pi |
Pashto, Pushto | ps |
Persian (Farsi) | fa |
Polish | pl |
Portuguese | pt |
Punjabi (Eastern) | pa |
Quechua | qu |
Romansh | rm |
Romanian | ro |
Russian | ru |
Sami | se |
Samoan | sm |
Sango | sg |
Sanskrit | sa |
Serbian | sr |
Serbo-Croatian | sh |
Sesotho | st |
Setswana | tn |
Shona | sn |
Sichuan Yi | ii |
Sindhi | sd |
Sinhalese | si |
Siswati | ss |
Slovak | sk |
Slovenian | sl |
Somali | so |
Southern Ndebele | nr |
Spanish | es |
Sundanese | su |
Swahili (Kiswahili) | sw |
Swati | ss |
Swedish | sv |
Tagalog | tl |
Tahitian | ty |
Tajik | tg |
Tamil | ta |
Tatar | tt |
Telugu | te |
Thai | th |
Tibetan | bo |
Tigrinya | ti |
Tonga | to |
Tsonga | ts |
Turkish | tr |
Turkmen | tk |
Twi | tw |
Uyghur | ug |
Ukrainian | uk |
Urdu | ur |
Uzbek | uz |
Venda | ve |
Vietnamese | vi |
Volapük | vo |
Wallon | wa |
Welsh | cy |
Wolof | wo |
Western Frisian | fy |
Xhosa | xh |
Yiddish | yi, ji |
Yoruba | yo |
Zhuang, Chuang | za |
Zulu | zu |