Language Codes
The HTML lang attribute can be used to declare the language of a web page or a portion of a web page.
According to the W3C recommendation, the primary language for each web page should be declared with the lang attribute inside the
<html> tag as follows:
<html lang="en">
ISO 639-1, 639-2, 639-3, and 639-5 define abbreviations for languages. In HTML5 they can be used in the lang and xml:lang attributes.
The following table lists the HTML5 language codes:
| Language Name | 639-1 | 639-2/ 639-5 |
639-3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afar | aa | aar | aar |
| Abkhazian | ab | abk | abk |
| Avestan | ae | ave | ave |
| Afrikaans | af | afr | afr |
| Akan | ak | aka | aka |
| Amharic | am | amh | amh |
| Aragonese | an | arg | arg |
| Arabic | ar | ara | ara |
| Assamese | as | asm | asm |
| Avaric | av | ava | ava |
| Aymara | ay | aym | aym |
| Azerbaijani | az | aze | aze |
| Bashkir | ba | bak | bak |
| Belarusian | be | bel | bel |
| Bulgarian | bg | bul | bul |
| Bihari languages | bh | bih | |
| Bislama | bi | bis | bis |
| Bambara | bm | bam | bam |
| Bengali | bn | ben | ben |
| Tibetan | bo | bod / tib2 | bod |
| Breton | br | bre | bre |
| Bosnian | bs | bos | bos |
| Catalan | ca | cat | cat |
| Chechen | ce | che | che |
| Chamorro | ch | cha | cha |
| Corsican | co | cos | cos |
| Cree | cr | cre | cre |
| Czech | cs | ces / cze2 | ces |
| Church Slavic | cu | chu | chu |
| Chuvash | cv | chv | chv |
| Welsh | cy | cym / wel2 | cym |
| Danish | da | dan | dan |
| German | de | deu / ger2 | deu |
| Dhivehi | dv | div | div |
| Dzongkha | dz | dzo | dzo |
| Ewe | ee | ewe | ewe |
| Modern Greek (1453-) |
el | ell / gre2 | ell |
| English | en | eng | eng |
| Esperanto | eo | epo | epo |
| Spanish | es | spa | spa |
| Estonian | et | est | est |
| Basque | eu | eus / baq2 | eus |
| Persian | fa | fas / per2 | fas |
| Fulah | ff | ful | ful |
| Finnish | fi | fin | fin |
| Fijian | fj | fij | fij |
| Faroese | fo | fao | fao |
| French | fr | fra / fre2 | fra |
| Western Frisian | fy | fry | fry |
| Irish | ga | gle | gle |
| Scottish Gaelic | gd | gla | gla |
| Galician | gl | glg | glg |
| Guarani | gn | grn | grn |
| Gujarati | gu | guj | guj |
| Manx | gv | glv | glv |
| Hausa | ha | hau | hau |
| Hebrew | he | heb | heb |
| Hindi | hi | hin | hin |
| Hiri Motu | ho | hmo | hmo |
| Croatian | hr | hrv | hrv |
| Haitian | ht | hat | hat |
| Hungarian | hu | hun | hun |
| Armenian | hy | hye / arm2 | hye |
| Herero | hz | her | her |
| Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) | ia | ina | ina |
| Indonesian | id | ind | ind |
| Interlingue | ie | ile | ile |
| Igbo | ig | ibo | ibo |
| Sichuan Yi | ii | iii | iii |
| Inupiaq | ik | ipk | ipk |
| Ido | io | ido | ido |
| Icelandic | is | isl / ice2 | isl |
| Italian | it | ita | ita |
| Inuktitut | iu | iku | iku |
| Japanese | ja | jpn | jpn |
| Javanese | jv | jav | jav |
| Georgian | ka | kat / geo2 | kat |
| Kongo | kg | kon | kon |
| Kikuyu | ki | kik | kik |
| Kuanyama | kj | kua | kua |
| Kazakh | kk | kaz | kaz |
| Kalaallisut | kl | kal | kal |
| Central Khmer | km | khm | khm |
| Kannada | kn | kan | kan |
| Korean | ko | kor | kor |
| Kanuri | kr | kau | kau |
| Kashmiri | ks | kas | kas |
| Kurdish | ku | kur | kur |
| Komi | kv | kom | kom |
| Cornish | kw | cor | cor |
| Kirghiz | ky | kir | kir |
| Latin | la | lat | lat |
| Luxembourgish | lb | ltz | ltz |
| Ganda | lg | lug | lug |
| Limburgan | li | lim | lim |
| Lingala | ln | lin | lin |
| Lao | lo | lao | lao |
| Lithuanian | lt | lit | lit |
| Luba-Katanga | lu | lub | lub |
| Latvian | lv | lav | lav |
| Malagasy | mg | mlg | mlg |
| Marshallese | mh | mah | mah |
| Maori | mi | mri / mao2 | mri |
| Macedonian | mk | mkd / mac2 | mkd |
| Malayalam | ml | mal | mal |
| Mongolian | mn | mon | mon |
| Marathi | mr | mar | mar |
| Malay (macrolanguage) | ms | msa / may2 | msa |
| Maltese | mt | mlt | mlt |
| Burmese | my | mya / bur2 | mya |
| Nauru | na | nau | nau |
| Norwegian Bokmål | nb | nob | nob |
| North Ndebele | nd | nde | nde |
| Nepali | ne | nep | nep |
| Ndonga | ng | ndo | ndo |
| Dutch | nl | nld / dut2 | nld |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | nn | nno | nno |
| Norwegian | no | nor | nor |
| South Ndebele | nr | nbl | nbl |
| Navajo | nv | nav | nav |
| Nyanja | ny | nya | nya |
| Occitan (post 1500) | oc | oci | oci |
| Ojibwa | oj | oji | oji |
| Oromo | om | orm | orm |
| Oriya | or | ori | ori |
| Ossetian | os | oss | oss |
| Panjabi | pa | pan | pan |
| Pali | pi | pli | pli |
| Polish | pl | pol | pol |
| Pushto | ps | pus | pus |
| Portuguese | pt | por | por |
| Quechua | qu | que | que |
| Romansh | rm | roh | roh |
| Rundi | rn | run | run |
| Romanian | ro | ron / rum2 | ron |
| Russian | ru | rus | rus |
| Kinyarwanda | rw | kin | kin |
| Sanskrit | sa | san | san |
| Sardinian | sc | srd | srd |
| Sindhi | sd | snd | snd |
| Northern Sami | se | sme | sme |
| Sango | sg | sag | sag |
| Serbo-Croatian | sh1 | hbs | |
| Sinhala | si | sin | sin |
| Slovak | sk | slk / slo2 | slk |
| Slovenian | sl | slv | slv |
| Samoan | sm | smo | smo |
| Shona | sn | sna | sna |
| Somali | so | som | som |
| Albanian | sq | sqi / alb2 | sqi |
| Serbian | sr | srp | srp |
| Swati | ss | ssw | ssw |
| Southern Sotho | st | sot | sot |
| Sundanese | su | sun | sun |
| Swedish | sv | swe | swe |
| Swahili (macrolanguage) | sw | swa | swa |
| Tamil | ta | tam | tam |
| Telugu | te | tel | tel |
| Tajik | tg | tgk | tgk |
| Thai | th | tha | tha |
| Tigrinya | ti | tir | tir |
| Turkmen | tk | tuk | tuk |
| Tagalog | tl | tgl | tgl |
| Tswana | tn | tsn | tsn |
| Tonga (Tonga Islands) | to | ton | ton |
| Turkish | tr | tur | tur |
| Tsonga | ts | tso | tso |
| Tatar | tt | tat | tat |
| Twi | tw | twi | twi |
| Tahitian | ty | tah | tah |
| Uighur | ug | uig | uig |
| Ukrainian | uk | ukr | ukr |
| Urdu | ur | urd | urd |
| Uzbek | uz | uzb | uzb |
| Venda | ve | ven | ven |
| Vietnamese | vi | vie | vie |
| Volapük | vo | vol | vol |
| Walloon | wa | wln | wln |
| Wolof | wo | wol | wol |
| Xhosa | xh | xho | xho |
| Yiddish | yi | yid | yid |
| Yoruba | yo | yor | yor |
| Zhuang | za | zha | zha |
| Chinese | zh | zho / chi2 | zho |
| Zulu | zu | zul | zul |
1 Deprecated
2 When two codes are provided for the same language, they are to be considered synonyms