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Language Codes

8 November 2019

Language Codes

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Language Codes - Based on ISO 639-1

Languages are listed alphabetically by name. Locate the language you need and then enter the code in the Brand1Language, Desc1Language, Brand2Language, and/or Desc2Language columns when importing products using the Import templates.

English name of Language ISO 639-1 Code
Abkhazian ab
Afar aa
Afrikaans af
Akan ak
Albanian sq
Amharic am
Arabic ar
Aragonese an
Armenian hy
Assamese as
Avaric av
Avestan ae
Aymara ay
Azerbaijani az
Bambara bm
Bashkir ba
Basque eu
Belarusian be
Bengali bn
Bihari languages bh
Bislama bi
Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål nb
Bosnian bs
Breton br
Bulgarian bg
Burmese my
Catalan; Valencian ca
Central Khmer km
Chamorro ch
Chechen ce
Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja ny
Chinese zh
Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic cu
Chuvash cv
Cornish kw
Corsican co
Cree cr
Croatian hr
Czech cs
Danish da
Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian dv
Dutch; Flemish nl
Dzongkha dz
English en
Esperanto eo
Estonian et
Ewe ee
Faroese fo
Fijian fj
Finnish fi
Fulah ff
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic gd
Galician gl
Ganda lg
Georgian ka
German de
Greek, Modern (1453-) el
Guarani gn
Gujarati gu
Haitian; Haitian Creole ht
Hausa ha
Hebrew he
Herero hz
Hindi hi
Hiri Motu ho
Hungarian hu
Icelandic is
Ido io
Igbo ig
Indonesian id
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) ia
Interlingue; Occidental ie
Inuktitut iu
Inupiaq ik
Irish ga
Italian it
Japanese ja
Javanese jv
Kalaallisut; Greenlandic kl
Kannada kn
Kanuri kr
Kashmiri ks
Kazakh kk
Kikuyu; Gikuyu ki
Kinyarwanda rw
Kirghiz; Kyrgyz ky
Komi kv
Kongo kg
Korean ko
Kuanyama; Kwanyama kj
Kurdish ku
Lao lo
Latin la
Latvian lv
Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish li
Lingala ln
Lithuanian lt
Luba-Katanga lu
Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch lb
Macedonian mk
Malagasy mg
Malay ms
Malayalam ml
Maltese mt
Manx gv
Maori mi
Marathi mr
Marshallese mh
Mongolian mn
Nauru na
Navajo; Navaho nv
Ndebele, North; North Ndebele nd
Ndebele, South; South Ndebele nr
Ndonga ng
Nepali ne
Northern Sami se
Norwegian no
Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian nn
Occitan (post 1500) oc
Ojibwa oj
Oriya or
Oromo om
Ossetian; Ossetic os
Pali pi
Panjabi; Punjabi pa
Persian fa
Polish pl
Portuguese pt
Pushto; Pashto ps
Quechua qu
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan ro
Romansh rm
Rundi rn
Russian ru
Samoan sm
Sango sg
Sanskrit sa
Sardinian sc
Serbian sr
Shona sn
Sichuan Yi; Nuosu ii
Sindhi sd
Sinhala; Sinhalese si
Slovak sk
Slovenian sl
Somali so
Sotho, Southern st
Spanish; Castilian es
Sundanese su
Swahili sw
Swati ss
Swedish sv
Tagalog tl
Tahitian ty
Tajik tg
Tamil ta
Tatar tt
Telugu te
Thai th
Tibetan bo
Tigrinya ti
Tonga (Tonga Islands) to
Tsonga ts
Tswana tn
Turkish tr
Turkmen tk
Twi tw
Uighur; Uyghur ug
Ukrainian uk
Urdu ur
Uzbek uz
Venda ve
Vietnamese vi
Volapük vo
Walloon wa
Welsh cy
Western Frisian fy
Wolof wo
Xhosa xh
Yiddish yi
Yoruba yo
Zhuang; Chuang za
Zulu zu

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