ISO Language Codes
The HTML lang attribute declares the language of a web page or only a part of a web page. It is used to help search engines and browsers.
W3C suggests to declare the primary language for every web page with the lang attribute inside the <html> tag.
See how to do it below:
<html lang="hy">
...
</html>
See how it must be in XHTML below:
<html xmlns="//www.w3docs.com/2014/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
...
</html>
ISO 639-1 Language Codes
ISO 639-1 defines languages' abbreviations.
See the list of language codes by country:
Language | ISO Code |
---|---|
Abkhazian | ab |
Afar | aa |
Afrikaans | af |
Albanian | sq |
Amharic | am |
Arabic | ar |
Aragonese | an |
Armenian | hy |
Assamese | as |
Aymara | ay |
Azerbaijani | az |
Bashkir | ba |
Basque | eu |
Bengali (Bangla) | bn |
Bhutani | dz |
Bihari | bh |
Bislama | bi |
Breton | br |
Bulgarian | bg |
Burmese | my |
Belarussian (Byelorussian) | be |
Cambodian | km |
Catalan | ca |
Cherokee | - |
Chewa | - |
Chinese | zh |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh-Hans |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh-Hant |
Corsican | co |
Croatian | hr |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
Divehi | - |
Dutch | nl |
Edo | - |
English | en |
Esperanto | eo |
Estonian | et |
Faeroese | fo |
Farsi | fa |
Fiji | fj |
Finnish | fi |
Flemish | - |
French | fr |
Frisian | fy |
Fulfulde | - |
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 |
Hawaiian | - |
Hebrew | he, iw |
Hindi | hi |
Hungarian | hu |
Ibibio | - |
Icelandic | is |
Ido | io |
Igbo | - |
Indonesian | id, in |
Interlingua | ia |
Interlingue | ie |
Inuktitut | iu |
Inupiak | ik |
Irish | ga |
Italian | it |
Japanese | ja |
Javanese | jv |
Kannada | kn |
Kanuri | - |
Kashmiri | ks |
Kazakh | kk |
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) | rw |
Kirghiz | ky |
Kirundi (Rundi) | rn |
Konkani | - |
Korean | ko |
Kurdish | ku |
Laothian | lo |
Latin | la |
Latvian (Lettish) | lv |
Limburgish (Limburger) | li |
Lingala | ln |
Lithuanian | lt |
Macedonian | mk |
Malagasy | mg |
Malay | ms |
Malayalam | ml |
Maltese | mt |
Maori | mi |
Marathi | mr |
Mongolian | mn |
Nauru | na |
Nepali | ne |
Norwegian | no |
Occitan | oc |
Oriya | or |
Oromo (Afaan Oromo) | om |
Papiamentu | - |
Pashto (Pushto) | ps |
Polish | pl |
Portuguese | pt |
Punjabi | pa |
Quechua | qu |
Rhaeto-Romance | rm |
Romanian | ro |
Russian | ru |
Sami (Lappish) | - |
Samoan | sm |
Sangro | 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 |
Spanish | es |
Sundanese | su |
Swahili (Kiswahili) | sw |
Swedish | sv |
Syriac | - |
Tagalog | tl |
Tajik | tg |
Tamazight | - |
Tamil | ta |
Tatar | tt |
Telugu | te |
Thai | th |
Tibetan | bo |
Tigrinya | ti |
Tonga | to |
Tsonga | ts |
Turkish | tr |
Turkmen | tk |
Twi | tw |
Uighur | ug |
Ukrainian | uk |
Urdu | ur |
Uzbek | uz |
Venda | - |
Vietnamese | vi |
Volapük | vo |
Wallon | wa |
Welsh | cy |
Wolof | wo |
Xhosa | xh |
Yi | - |
Yiddish | yi , ji |
Yoruba | yo |
Zulu | zu |
Practice Your Knowledge
From the listed options, which are valid HTML language codes according to the website https://www.w3docs.com/learn-html/html-language-codes.html?
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