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 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 |
Code | Country |
---|---|
AD | Andorra, Principality of |
AE | United Arab Emirates |
AF | Afghanistan, Islamic State of |
AG | Antigua and Barbuda |
AI | Anguilla |
AL | Albania |
AM | Armenia |
AN | Netherlands Antilles |
AO | Angola |
AQ | Antarctica |
AR | Argentina |
AS | American Samoa |
AT | Austria |
AU | Australia |
AW | Aruba |
AZ | Azerbaidjan |
BA | Bosnia-Herzegovina |
BB | Barbados |
BD | Bangladesh |
BE | Belgium |
BF | Burkina Faso |
BG | Bulgaria |
BH | Bahrain |
BI | Burundi |
BJ | Benin |
BM | Bermuda |
BN | Brunei Darussalam |
BO | Bolivia |
BR | Brazil |
BS | Bahamas |
BT | Bhutan |
BV | Bouvet Island |
BW | Botswana |
BY | Belarus |
BZ | Belize |
CA | Canada |
CC | Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
CF | Central African Republic |
CD | Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
CG | Congo |
CH | Switzerland |
CI | Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) |
CK | Cook Islands |
CL | Chile |
CM | Cameroon |
CN | China |
CO | Colombia |
CR | Costa Rica |
CS | Former Czechoslovakia |
CU | Cuba |
CV | Cape Verde |
CX | Christmas Island |
CY | Cyprus |
CZ | Czech Republic |
DE | Germany |
DJ | Djibouti |
DK | Denmark |
DM | Dominica |
DO | Dominican Republic |
DZ | Algeria |
EC | Ecuador |
EE | Estonia |
EG | Egypt |
EH | Western Sahara |
ER | Eritrea |
ES | Spain |
ET | Ethiopia |
FI | Finland |
FJ | Fiji |
FK | Falkland Islands |
FM | Micronesia |
FO | Faroe Islands |
FR | France |
FX | France (European Territory) |
GA | Gabon |
GB | Great Britain |
GD | Grenada |
GE | Georgia |
GF | French Guyana |
GH | Ghana |
GI | Gibraltar |
GL | Greenland |
GM | Gambia |
GN | Guinea |
GP | Guadeloupe (French) |
GQ | Equatorial Guinea |
GR | Greece |
GS | S. Georgia & S. Sandwich Isls. |
GT | Guatemala |
GU | Guam (USA) |
GW | Guinea Bissau |
GY | Guyana |
HK | Hong Kong |
HM | Heard and McDonald Islands |
HN | Honduras |
HR | Croatia |
HT | Haiti |
HU | Hungary |
ID | Indonesia |
IE | Ireland |
IL | Israel |
IN | India |
IO | British Indian Ocean Territory |
IQ | Iraq |
IR | Iran |
IS | Iceland |
IT | Italy |
JM | Jamaica |
JO | Jordan |
JP | Japan |
KE | Kenya |
KG | Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) |
KH | Cambodia, Kingdom of |
KI | Kiribati |
KM | Comoros |
KN | Saint Kitts & Nevis Anguilla |
KP | North Korea |
KR | South Korea |
KW | Kuwait |
KY | Cayman Islands |
KZ | Kazakhstan |
LA | Laos |
LB | Lebanon |
LC | Saint Lucia |
LI | Liechtenstein |
LK | Sri Lanka |
LR | Liberia |
LS | Lesotho |
LT | Lithuania |
LU | Luxembourg |
LV | Latvia |
LY | Libya |
MA | Morocco |
MC | Monaco |
MD | Moldavia |
MG | Madagascar |
MH | Marshall Islands |
MK | Macedonia |
ML | Mali |
MM | Myanmar |
MN | Mongolia |
MO | Macau |
MP | Northern Mariana Islands |
MQ | Martinique (French) |
MR | Mauritania |
MS | Montserrat |
MT | Malta |
MU | Mauritius |
MV | Maldives |
MW | Malawi |
MX | Mexico |
MY | Malaysia |
MZ | Mozambique |
NA | Namibia |
NC | New Caledonia (French) |
NE | Niger |
NF | Norfolk Island |
NG | Nigeria |
NI | Nicaragua |
NL | Netherlands |
NO | Norway |
NP | Nepal |
NR | Nauru |
NT | Neutral Zone |
NU | Niue |
NZ | New Zealand |
OM | Oman |
PA | Panama |
PE | Peru |
PF | Polynesia (French) |
PG | Papua New Guinea |
PH | Philippines |
PK | Pakistan |
PL | Poland |
PM | Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
PN | Pitcairn Island |
PR | Puerto Rico |
PT | Portugal |
PW | Palau |
PY | Paraguay |
QA | Qatar |
RE | Reunion (French) |
RO | Romania |
RU | Russian Federation |
RW | Rwanda |
SA | Saudi Arabia |
SB | Solomon Islands |
SC | Seychelles |
SD | Sudan |
SE | Sweden |
SG | Singapore |
SH | Saint Helena |
SI | Slovenia |
SJ | Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands |
SK | Slovak Republic |
SL | Sierra Leone |
SM | San Marino |
SN | Senegal |
SO | Somalia |
SR | Suriname |
ST | Saint Tome (Sao Tome) and Principe |
SU | Former USSR |
SV | El Salvador |
SY | Syria |
SZ | Swaziland |
TC | Turks and Caicos Islands |
TD | Chad |
TF | French Southern Territories |
TG | Togo |
TH | Thailand |
TJ | Tadjikistan |
TK | Tokelau |
TM | Turkmenistan |
TN | Tunisia |
TO | Tonga |
TP | East Timor |
TR | Turkey |
TT | Trinidad and Tobago |
TV | Tuvalu |
TW | Taiwan |
TZ | Tanzania |
UA | Ukraine |
UG | Uganda |
UK | United Kingdom |
UM | USA Minor Outlying Islands |
US | United States |
UY | Uruguay |
UZ | Uzbekistan |
VA | Holy See (Vatican City State) |
VC | Saint Vincent & Grenadines |
VE | Venezuela |
VG | Virgin Islands (British) |
VI | Virgin Islands (USA) |
VN | Vietnam |
VU | Vanuatu |
WF | Wallis and Futuna Islands |
WS | Samoa |
YE | Yemen |
YT | Mayotte |
YU | Yugoslavia |
ZA | South Africa |
ZM | Zambia |
ZR | Zaire |
ZW | Zimbabwe |