Appendix D - Language & Country Codes Reference

Language Codes (and optionally, Country Codes) are used with the lang and dir attributes. The lang attribute assigns a language to the text in a Web page to be read by the opening browser. The dir attribute assigns a direction, right or left, to the assigned language. For example, Hebrew is not read left to right like English, but right to left.

For example, to specify a particular section in United States specific English and another, sub-section in Spanish, you could use the following code:

<div id="English" lang="en-US">
English text here...
  <div id="Spanish" lang="es">
    Spanish text here....
  </div>
Back to English...

Note: For more information on language codes and encoding, see the W3C HTML 4.01 specification, specifically Section 8: Language information and text direction.

Language Codes Reference

Language Family Language Name Code
Amerindian Aymara ay
Amerindian Guarani gn
Amerindian Quechua qu
Asian Bhutani dz
Asian Bislama bi [not given]
Asian Burmese my
Asian Cambodian km
Asian Chinese zh
Asian Japanese ja
Asian Korean ko
Asian Laotian lo
Asian Thai th
Asian Tibetan bo
Asian Vietnamese vi
Baltic Latvian; Lettish lv
Baltic Lithuanian lt
Basque Basque eu
Celtic Breton br
Celtic Irish ga
Celtic Gaelic gd
Celtic Welsh cy
Dravidian Kannada kn
Dravidian Malayalam ml
Dravidian Tamil ta
Dravidian Telugu te
Eskimo Greenlandic kl
Eskimo Inupiak ik
Finno-Ugric Estonian et
Finno-Ugric Finnish fi
Finno-Ugric Hungarian hu
Germanic Afrikaans af
Germanic Danish da
Germanic Dutch nl
Germanic English en
Germanic Faroese fo
Germanic Frisian fy
Germanic German de
Germanic Icelandic is
Germanic Norwegian no
Germanic Swedish sv
Germanic Yiddish yi
Hamitic Afan (Oromo) om
Hamitic Afar aa
Hamitic Somali so
Ibero-Caucasian Abkhazian ab
Ibero-Caucasian Georgian ka
Indian Assamese as
Indian Bengali; Bangla bn
Indian Bihari bh
Indian Gujarati gu
Indian Hindi hi
Indian Kashmiri ks
Indian Marathi mr
Indian Nepali ne
Indian Oriya or
Indian Punjabi pa
Indian Sanskrit sa
Indian Sindhi sd
Indian Singhalese si
Indian Urdu ur
Indo-European (other) Albanian sq
Indo-European (other) Armenian hy
International aux. Esperanto eo
International aux. Interlingua ia
International aux. Interlingue ie
International aux. Volapük vo
Iranian Kurdish ku
Iranian Pashto; Pushto ps
Iranian Persian (Farsi) fa
Iranian Tajik tg
Latin/Greek Greek el
Latin/Greek Latin la
Negro-African Hausa ha
Negro-African Kinyarwanda rw
Negro-African Kurundi rn
Negro-African Lingala ln
Negro-African Sangho sg
Negro-African Sesotho st
Negro-African Setswana tn
Negro-African Shona sn
Negro-African Siswati ss
Negro-African Swahili sw
Negro-African Tsonga ts
Negro-African Twi tw
Negro-African Wolof wo
Negro-African Xhosa xh
Negro-African Yoruba yo
Negro-African Zulu zu
Oceanic/Indonesian Fiji fj
Oceanic/Indonesian Indonesian id
Oceanic/Indonesian Javanese jw
Oceanic/Indonesian Malagasy mg
Oceanic/Indonesian Malay ms
Oceanic/Indonesian Maori mi
Oceanic/Indonesian Samoan sm
Oceanic/Indonesian Sudanese su
Oceanic/Indonesian Tagalog tl
Oceanic/Indonesian Tonga to
Romance Catalan ca
Romance Corsican co
Romance French fr
Romance Galician gl
Romance Italian it
Romance Moldavian mo
Romance Occitan oc
Romance Portuguese pt
Romance Rhaeto-Romance rm
Romance Romanian ro
Romance Spanish es
Semitic Amharic am
Semitic Arabic ar
Semitic Hebrew he
Semitic Maltese mt
Semitic Tigrinya ti
Slavic Bulgarian bg
Slavic Byelorussian be
Slavic Croatian hr
Slavic Czech cs
Slavic Macedonian mk
Slavic Polish pl
Slavic Russian ru
Slavic Serbian sr
Slavic Serbo-Croatian sh
Slavic Slovak sk
Slavic Slovenian sl
Slavic Ukrainian uk
Turkic/Altaic Azerbaijani az
Turkic/Altaic Bashkir ba
Turkic/Altaic Kazakh kk
Turkic/Altaic Kirghiz ky
Turkic/Altaic Tatar tt
Turkic/Altaic Turkish tr
Turkic/Altaic Turkmen tk
Turkic/Altaic Uzbek uz

Country Codes Reference

CodeCountry
ADAndorra, Principality of
AEUnited Arab Emirates
AFAfghanistan, Islamic State of
AGAntigua and Barbuda
AIAnguilla
ALAlbania
AMArmenia
ANNetherlands Antilles
AOAngola
AQAntarctica
ARArgentina
ASAmerican Samoa
ATAustria
AUAustralia
AWAruba
AZAzerbaidjan
BABosnia-Herzegovina
BBBarbados
BDBangladesh
BEBelgium
BFBurkina Faso
BGBulgaria
BHBahrain
BIBurundi
BJBenin
BMBermuda
BNBrunei Darussalam
BOBolivia
BRBrazil
BSBahamas
BTBhutan
BVBouvet Island
BWBotswana
BYBelarus
BZBelize
CACanada
CCCocos (Keeling) Islands
CFCentral African Republic
CDCongo, The Democratic Republic of the
CGCongo
CHSwitzerland
CIIvory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)
CKCook Islands
CLChile
CMCameroon
CNChina
COColombia
CRCosta Rica
CSFormer Czechoslovakia
CUCuba
CVCape Verde
CXChristmas Island
CYCyprus
CZCzech Republic
DEGermany
DJDjibouti
DKDenmark
DMDominica
DODominican Republic
DZAlgeria
ECEcuador
EEEstonia
EGEgypt
EHWestern Sahara
EREritrea
ESSpain
ETEthiopia
FIFinland
FJFiji
FKFalkland Islands
FMMicronesia
FOFaroe Islands
FRFrance
FXFrance (European Territory)
GAGabon
GBGreat Britain
GDGrenada
GEGeorgia
GFFrench Guyana
GHGhana
GIGibraltar
GLGreenland
GMGambia
GNGuinea
GPGuadeloupe (French)
GQEquatorial Guinea
GRGreece
GSS. Georgia & S. Sandwich Isls.
GTGuatemala
GUGuam (USA)
GWGuinea Bissau
GYGuyana
HKHong Kong
HMHeard and McDonald Islands
HNHonduras
HRCroatia
HTHaiti
HUHungary
IDIndonesia
IEIreland
ILIsrael
INIndia
IOBritish Indian Ocean Territory
IQIraq
IRIran
ISIceland
ITItaly
JMJamaica
JOJordan
JPJapan
KEKenya
KGKyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan)
KHCambodia, Kingdom of
KIKiribati
KMComoros
KNSaint Kitts & Nevis Anguilla
KPNorth Korea
KRSouth Korea
KWKuwait
KYCayman Islands
KZKazakhstan
LALaos
LBLebanon
LCSaint Lucia
LILiechtenstein
LKSri Lanka
LRLiberia
LSLesotho
LTLithuania
LULuxembourg
LVLatvia
LYLibya
MAMorocco
MCMonaco
MDMoldavia
MGMadagascar
MHMarshall Islands
MKMacedonia
MLMali
MMMyanmar
MNMongolia
MOMacau
MPNorthern Mariana Islands
MQMartinique (French)
MRMauritania
MSMontserrat
MTMalta
MUMauritius
MVMaldives
MWMalawi
MXMexico
MYMalaysia
MZMozambique
NANamibia
NCNew Caledonia (French)
NENiger
NFNorfolk Island
NGNigeria
NINicaragua
NLNetherlands
NONorway
NPNepal
NRNauru
NTNeutral Zone
NUNiue
NZNew Zealand
OMOman
PAPanama
PEPeru
PFPolynesia (French)
PGPapua New Guinea
PHPhilippines
PKPakistan
PLPoland
PMSaint Pierre and Miquelon
PNPitcairn Island
PRPuerto Rico
PTPortugal
PWPalau
PYParaguay
QAQatar
REReunion (French)
RORomania
RURussian Federation
RWRwanda
SASaudi Arabia
SBSolomon Islands
SCSeychelles
SDSudan
SESweden
SGSingapore
SHSaint Helena
SISlovenia
SJSvalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
SKSlovak Republic
SLSierra Leone
SMSan Marino
SNSenegal
SOSomalia
SRSuriname
STSaint Tome (Sao Tome) and Principe
SUFormer USSR
SVEl Salvador
SYSyria
SZSwaziland
TCTurks and Caicos Islands
TDChad
TFFrench Southern Territories
TGTogo
THThailand
TJTadjikistan
TKTokelau
TMTurkmenistan
TNTunisia
TOTonga
TPEast Timor
TRTurkey
TTTrinidad and Tobago
TVTuvalu
TWTaiwan
TZTanzania
UAUkraine
UGUganda
UKUnited Kingdom
UMUSA Minor Outlying Islands
USUnited States
UYUruguay
UZUzbekistan
VAHoly See (Vatican City State)
VCSaint Vincent & Grenadines
VEVenezuela
VGVirgin Islands (British)
VIVirgin Islands (USA)
VNVietnam
VUVanuatu
WFWallis and Futuna Islands
WSSamoa
YEYemen
YTMayotte
YUYugoslavia
ZASouth Africa
ZMZambia
ZRZaire
ZWZimbabwe