Appendix D. Language Tags

Language tags are a system defined in RFC 3066, which is used in various Internet protocols and formats, including HTML, HTTP, and XML. For example, an HTTP request often has an Accept-Language header, an HTTP response can have a Content-Language header, and any HTML element can have a lang="en-US" or (in XML and XHTML) an xml:lang="en-US" attribute to indicate that its content is in that language.

There are many more language tags than are presented here; for the full list, see documentation for the Perl module I18N::LangTags::List. This appendix lists major languages, in alphabetical order by their English names.

Tag	Language	Tag	Language
sq	Albanian	en-us	American English
ar	Arabic	en-gb	British English
hy	Armenian	et	Estonian
as	Assamese	fa	Farsi
eu	Basque	fi	Finnish
be	Belarusian	fr	French
bn	Bengali/Bangla	fr-ca	Canadian French
bg	Bulgarian	fr-fr	French French
ca	Catalan	ga	Irish Gaelic
zh	Chinese	gd	Scots Gaelic
zh-cn	Mainland Chinese	de	German
zh-tw	Taiwan Chinese	el	Modern Greek
hr	Croatian	grc	Ancient Greek
cs	Czech	gu	Gujarati
da	Danish	haw	Hawaiian
nl	Dutch	he	Hebrew
en	English	hi	Hindi
hu	Hungarian	pt	Portuguese
is	Icelandic	pt-br	Brazilian Portuguese
id	Indonesian	pt-pt	European Portuguese
it	Italian	pa	Punjabi
ja	Japanese	ro	Romanian
kn	Kannada	ru	Russian
ks	Kashmiri	sa	Sanskrit
kok	Konkani	sr	Serbian
ko	Korean	sd	Sindhi
la	Latin	sk	Slovak
lv	Latvian	sl	Slovene
lt	Lithuanian	es	Spanish
mk	Macedonian	es-es	European Spanish
ms	Malay	es-mx	Mexican Spanish
ml	Malayalam	sv	Swedish
mt	Maltese	tl	Tagalog
mi	Maori	ta	Tamil
mr	Marathi	te	Telugu
mni	Meithei/Manipuri	th	Thai
ne	Nepali	tr	Turkish
no	Norwegian	uk	Ukrainian
nb	Norwegian Bokmål	ur	Urdu
nn	Norwegian Nynorsk	vi	Vietnamese
or	Oriya	cy	Welsh
pl	Polish


C. Common MIME Types		E. Common Content Encodings