ISO 639-1 Standard Language Codes
Estimated Reading Time: 2 MinutesHere is a list of the ISO language codes that conform to the ISO 639-1 standard, complete with two-letter country codes where relevant. You can see the language code next to the language name in the list below. The highlighted rows (marked in bold text) contain the languages that we use in the multi-language edition of PHPKB knowledge management software.
ISO 639-1 Standard Language Codes
| Language (Region) | Code |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af |
| Albanian | sq |
| Arabic (Algeria) | ar-dz |
| Arabic (Bahrain) | ar-bh |
| Arabic (Egypt) | ar-eg |
| Arabic (Iraq) | ar-iq |
| Arabic (Jordan) | ar-jo |
| Arabic (Kuwait) | ar-kw |
| Arabic (Lebanon) | ar-lb |
| Arabic (Libya) | ar-ly |
| Arabic (Morocco) | ar-ma |
| Arabic (Oman) | ar-om |
| Arabic (Qatar) | ar-qa |
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | ar-sa |
| Arabic (Syria) | ar-sy |
| Arabic (Tunisia) | ar-tn |
| Arabic (U.A.E.) | ar-ae |
| Arabic (Yemen) | ar-ye |
| Basque | eu |
| Belarusian | be |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | zh-hk |
| Chinese (PRC) | zh-cn |
| Chinese (Singapore) | zh-sg |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-tw |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch (Belgium) | nl-be |
| Dutch (Standard) | nl |
| English | en |
| English (Australia) | en-au |
| English (Belize) | en-bz |
| English (Canada) | en-ca |
| English (Ireland) | en-ie |
| English (Jamaica) | en-jm |
| English (New Zealand) | en-nz |
| English (South Africa) | en-za |
| English (Trinidad) | en-tt |
| English (United Kingdom) | en-gb |
| English (United States) | en-us |
| Estonian | et |
| Faeroese | fo |
| Farsi | fa |
| Finnish | fi |
| French (Belgium) | fr-be |
| French (Canada) | fr-ca |
| French (Luxembourg) | fr-lu |
| French (Standard) | fr |
| French (Switzerland) | fr-ch |
| Gaelic (Scotland) | gd |
| German (Austria) | de-at |
| German (Liechtenstein) | de-li |
| German (Luxembourg) | de-lu |
| German (Standard) | de |
| German (Switzerland) | de-ch |
| Greek | el |
| Hebrew | he |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Icelandic | is |
| Indonesian | id |
| Irish | ga |
| Italian (Standard) | it |
| Italian (Switzerland) | it-ch |
| Japanese | ja |
| Korean | ko |
| Korean (Johab) | ko |
| Kurdish | ku |
| Latvian | lv |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Macedonian (FYROM) | mk |
| Malayalam | ml |
| Malaysian | ms |
| Maltese | mt |
| Norwegian | no |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | nb |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | nn |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | pt |
| Punjabi | pa |
| Rhaeto-Romanic | rm |
| Romanian | ro |
| Romanian (Republic of Moldova) | ro-md |
| Russian | ru |
| Russian (Republic of Moldova) | ru-md |
| Serbian | sr |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Sorbian | sb |
| Spanish (Argentina) | es-ar |
| Spanish (Bolivia) | es-bo |
| Spanish (Chile) | es-cl |
| Spanish (Colombia) | es-co |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | es-cr |
| Spanish (Dominican Republic) | es-do |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | es-ec |
| Spanish (El Salvador) | es-sv |
| Spanish (Guatemala) | es-gt |
| Spanish (Honduras) | es-hn |
| Spanish (Mexico) | es-mx |
| Spanish (Nicaragua) | es-ni |
| Spanish (Panama) | es-pa |
| Spanish (Paraguay) | es-py |
| Spanish (Peru) | es-pe |
| Spanish (Puerto Rico) | es-pr |
| Spanish (Spain) | es |
| Spanish (Uruguay) | es-uy |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | es-ve |
| Swedish | sv |
| Swedish (Finland) | sv-fi |
| Thai | th |
| Tsonga | ts |
| Tswana | tn |
| Turkish | tr |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Urdu | ur |
| Venda | ve |
| Vietnamese | vi |
| Welsh | cy |
| Xhosa | xh |
| Yiddish | ji |
| Zulu | zu |