Sublanguages
Languages can be identified using a locale identifier or a primary language identifier.
This table lists the locale identifiers.
| Locale identifier | Primary language | Sublanguage |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Neutral locale language | Neutral sublanguage |
| 2048 | System default locale language | System default sublanguage |
| 1024 | User default locale language | User default sublanguage |
| 1078 | Afrikaans (af) | South Africa (ZA) |
| 1052 | Albanian (sq) | Albania (AL) |
| 1156 | Alsatian (gsw) | France (FR) |
| 1118 | Amharic (am) | Ethiopia (ET) |
| 5121 | Arabic (ar) | Algeria (DZ) |
| 15361 | Arabic (ar) | Bahrain (BH) |
| 3073 | Arabic (ar) | Egypt (EG) |
| 2049 | Arabic (ar) | Iraq (IQ) |
| 11265 | Arabic (ar) | Jordan (JO) |
| 13313 | Arabic (ar) | Kuwait (KW) |
| 12289 | Arabic (ar) | Lebanon (LB) |
| 4097 | Arabic (ar) | Libya (LY) |
| 6145 | Arabic (ar) | Morocco (MA) |
| 8193 | Arabic (ar) | Oman (OM) |
| 16385 | Arabic (ar) | Qatar (QA) |
| 1025 | Arabic (ar) | Saudi Arabia (SA) |
| 10241 | Arabic (ar) | Syria (SY) |
| 7169 | Arabic (ar) | Tunisia (TN) |
| 14337 | Arabic (ar) | U.A.E. (AE) |
| 9217 | Arabic (ar) | Yemen (YE) |
| 1067 | Armenian (hy) | Armenia (AM) |
| 1101 | Assamese (as) | India (IN) |
| 2092 | Azeri (az) | Azerbaijan, Cyrillic (AZ) |
| 1068 | Azeri (az) | Azerbaijan, Latin (AZ) |
| 1133 | Bashkir (ba) | Russia (RU) |
| 1069 | Basque (eu) | Basque (ES) |
| 1059 | Belarusian (be) | Belarus (BY) |
| 1093 | Bengali (bn) | Bangladesh |
| 1093 | Bengali (bn) | India (IN) |
| 30746 | Bosnian (bs) | Neutral |
| 8218 | Bosnian (bs); see Note 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyrillic (BA) |
| 5146 | Bosnian (bs); see Note 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latin (BA) |
| 1150 | Breton (br) | France (FR) |
| 1026 | Bulgarian (bg) | Bulgaria (BG) |
| 1027 | Catalan (ca) | Catalan (ES) |
| 3076 | Chinese (zh) | Hong Kong SAR, PRC (HK) |
| 5124 | Chinese (zh) | Macao SAR (MO) |
| 4100 | Chinese (zh) | Singapore (SG) |
| 2052 | Chinese (zh) | Simplified (Hans) |
| 1028 | Chinese (zh) | Traditional (Hant) |
| 1155 | Corsican (co) | France (FR) |
| 1050 | Croatian (hr); see Note 1 | Neutral |
| 4122 | Croatian (hr) | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latin (BA) |
| 1050 | Croatian (hr) | Croatia (HR) |
| 1029 | Czech (cs) | Czech Republic (CZ) |
| 1030 | Danish (da) | Denmark (DK) |
| 1164 | Dari (gbz) | Afghanistan (AF) |
| 1125 | Divehi (dv) | Maldives (MV) |
| 2067 | Dutch (nl) | Belgium (BE) |
| 1043 | Dutch (nl) | Netherlands (NL) |
| 3081 | English (en) | Australia (AU) |
| 10249 | English (en) | Belize (BE) |
| 4105 | English (en) | Canada (CA) |
| 9225 | English (en) | Caribbean (029) |
| 16393 | English (en) | India (IN) |
| 6153 | English (en) | Ireland (IE); see Note 4 |
| 6153 | English (en) | Ireland (IE); see Note 4 |
| 8201 | English (en) | Jamaica (JM) |
| 17417 | English (en) | Malaysia (MY) |
| 5129 | English (en) | New Zealand (NZ) |
| 13321 | English (en) | Philippines (PH) |
| 18441 | English (en) | Singapore (SG) |
| 7177 | English (en) | South Africa (ZA) |
| 11273 | English (en) | Trinidad and Tobago (TT) |
| 2057 | English (en) | United Kingdom (GB) |
| 1033 | English (en) | United States (US) |
| 12297 | English (en) | Zimbabwe (ZW) |
| 1061 | Estonian (et) | Estonia (EE) |
| 1080 | Faroese (fo) | Faroe Islands (FO) |
| 1124 | Filipino (fil) | Philippines (PH) |
| 1035 | Finnish (fi) | Finland (FI) |
| 2060 | French (fr) | Belgium (BE) |
| 3084 | French (fr) | Canada (CA) |
| 1036 | French (fr) | France (FR) |
| 5132 | French (fr) | Luxembourg (LU) |
| 6156 | French (fr) | Monaco (MC) |
| 4108 | French (fr) | Switzerland (CH) |
| 1122 | Frisian (fy) | Netherlands (NL) |
| 1110 | Galician (gl) | Spain (ES) |
| 1079 | Georgian (ka) | Georgia (GE) |
| 3079 | German (de) | Austria (AT) |
| 1031 | German (de) | Germany (DE) |
| 5127 | German (de) | Liechtenstein (LI) |
| 4103 | German (de) | Luxembourg (LU) |
| 2055 | German (de) | Switzerland (CH) |
| 1032 | Greek (el) | Greece (GR) |
| 1135 | Greenlandic (kl) | Greenland (GL) |
| 1095 | Gujarati (gu) | India (IN) |
| 1128 | Hausa (ha) | Nigeria (NG) |
| 1037 | Hebrew (he) | Israel (IL) |
| 1081 | Hindi (hi) | India (IN) |
| 1038 | Hungarian (hu) | Hungary (HU) |
| 1039 | Icelandic (is) | Iceland (IS) |
| 1136 | Igbo (ig) | Nigeria (NG) |
| 1057 | Indonesian (id) | Indonesia (ID) |
| 2141 | Inuktitut (iu) | Canada (CA), Latin |
| 1117 | Inuktitut (iu) | Canada (CA), Syllabics |
| 2108 | Irish (ga); see Note 3 | Ireland (IE) |
| 1040 | Italian (it) | Italy (IT) |
| 2064 | Italian (it) | Switzerland (CH) |
| 1041 | Japanese (ja) | Japan (JP) |
| 1099 | Kannada (kn) | India (IN) |
| 1087 | Kazakh (kk) | Kazakhstan (KZ) |
| 1107 | Khmer (kh) | Cambodia (KH) |
| 1158 | K'iche (qut) | Guatemala (GT) |
| 1159 | Kinyarwanda (rw) | Rwanda (RW) |
| 1111 | Konkani (kok) | India (IN) |
| 1042 | Korean (ko) | Korea (KR) |
| 1088 | Kyrgyz (ky) | Kyrgyzstan (KG) |
| 1108 | Lao (lo) | Lao PDR (LA) |
| 1062 | Latvian (lv) | Latvia (LV) |
| 1063 | Lithuanian (lt) | Lithuanian (LT); see Note 5 |
| 2094 | Lower Sorbian (dsb) | Germany (DE) |
| 1134 | Luxembourgish (lb) | Luxembourg (LU) |
| 1071 | Macedonian (mk) | Macedonia, FYROM (MK) |
| 2110 | Malay (ms) | Brunei Darassalam (BN) |
| 1086 | Malay (ms) | Malaysia (MY) |
| 1100 | Malayalam (ml) | India (IN) |
| 1082 | Maltese (mt) | Malta (MT) |
| 1153 | Maori (mi) | New Zealand (NZ) |
| 1146 | Mapudungun (arn) | Chile (CL) |
| 1102 | Marathi (mr) | India (IN) |
| 1148 | Mohawk (moh) | Canada (CA) |
| 1104 | Mongolian (mn) | Mongolia, Cyrillic (MN) |
| 2128 | Mongolian (mn) | Mongolia (CN) |
| 1121 | Nepali (ne) | Nepal (NP) |
| 1121 | Nepali (ne) | India (IN) |
| 1044 | Norwegian (no) | Bokmål, Norway (NO) |
| 2068 | Norwegian (no) | Nynorsk, Norway (NO) |
| 1154 | Occitan (oc) | France (FR) |
| 1096 | Oriya (or) | India (IN) |
| 1123 | Pashto (ps) | Afghanistan (AF) |
| 1065 | Persian (fa); see Note 2 | Iran (IR) |
| 1045 | Polish (pl) | Poland (PL) |
| 1046 | Portuguese (pt) | Brazil (BR) |
| 2070 | Portuguese (pt) | Portugal (PT); see Note 6 |
| 2070 | Portuguese (pt) | Portugal (PT); see Note 6 |
| 1094 | Punjabi (pa) | India (IN) |
| 1131 | Quechua (quz) | Bolivia (BO) |
| 2155 | Quechua (quz) | Ecuador (EC) |
| 3179 | Quechua (quz) | Peru (PE) |
| 1048 | Romanian (ro) | Romania (RO) |
| 1047 | Romansh (rm) | Switzerland (CH) |
| 1049 | Russian (ru) | Russia (RU) |
| 9275 | Sami (se) | Inari, Finland (FI) |
| 4155 | Sami (se) | Lule, Norway (NO) |
| 5179 | Sami (se) | Lule, Sweden (SE) |
| 3131 | Sami (se) | Northern, Finland (FI) |
| 1083 | Sami (se) | Northern, Norway (NO) |
| 2107 | Sami (se) | Northern, Sweden (SE) |
| 8251 | Sami (se) | Skolt, Finland (FI) |
| 6203 | Sami (se) | Southern, Norway (NO) |
| 7227 | Sami (se) | Southern, Sweden (SE) |
| 1103 | Sanskrit (sa) | India (IN) |
| 31770 | Serbian (sr); see Note 1 | Neutral |
| 6170 | Serbian (sr); see Note 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyrillic (BA) |
| 6170 | Serbian (sr); see Note 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latin (BA) |
| 6170 | Serbian (sr); see Note 1 | Croatia (HR) |
| 3098 | Serbian (sr); see Note 1 | Serbia, Cyrillic (CS) |
| 2074 | Serbian (sr); see Note 1 | Serbia, Latin (CS) |
| 1132 | Sesotho sa Leboa/Northern Sotho (ns) | South Africa (ZA) |
| 1074 | Setswana/Tswana (tn) | South Africa (ZA) |
| 1115 | Sinhala (si) | Sri Lanka (LK) |
| 1051 | Slovak (sk) | Slovakia (SK) |
| 1060 | Slovenian (sl) | Slovenia (SI) |
| 11274 | Spanish (es) | Argentina (AR) |
| 16394 | Spanish (es) | Bolivia (BO) |
| 13322 | Spanish (es) | Chile (CL) |
| 9226 | Spanish (es) | Colombia (CO) |
| 5130 | Spanish (es) | Costa Rica (CR) |
| 7178 | Spanish (es) | Dominican Republic (DO) |
| 12298 | Spanish (es) | Ecuador (EC) |
| 17418 | Spanish (es) | El Salvador (SV) |
| 4106 | Spanish (es) | Guatemala (GT) |
| 18442 | Spanish (es) | Honduras (HN) |
| 2058 | Spanish (es) | Mexico (MX) |
| 19466 | Spanish (es) | Nicaragua (NI) |
| 6154 | Spanish (es) | Panama (PA) |
| 15370 | Spanish (es) | Paraguay (PY) |
| 10250 | Spanish (es) | Peru (PE) |
| 20490 | Spanish (es) | Puerto Rico (PR) |
| 3082 | Spanish (es) | Spain (ES) |
| 21514 | Spanish (es) | United States (US) |
| 14346 | Spanish (es) | Uruguay (UY) |
| 8202 | Spanish (es) | Venezuela (VE) |
| 1089 | Swahili (sw) | Kenya (KE) |
| 2077 | Swedish (sv) | Finland (FI) |
| 1053 | Swedish (sv) | Sweden (SE); see Note 7 |
| 1053 | Swedish (sv) | Sweden (SE); see Note 7 |
| 1114 | Syriac (syr) | Syria (SY) |
| 1064 | Tajik (tg) | Tajikistan (TJ) |
| 2143 | Tamazight (tmz) | Algeria, Latin (DZ) |
| 1097 | Tamil (ta) | India (IN) |
| 1092 | Tatar (tt) | Russia (RU) |
| 1098 | Telugu (te) | India (IN) |
| 1054 | Thai (th) | Thailand (TH) |
| 1105 | Tibetan (bo) | PRC (CN) |
| 1055 | Turkish (tr) | Turkey (TR) |
| 1090 | Turkmen (tk) | Turkmenistan (TM) |
| 1152 | Uighur (ug) | PRC (CN) |
| 1058 | Ukrainian (uk) | Ukraine (UA) |
| 1070 | Upper Sorbian (wen) | Germany (DE) |
| 2080 | Urdu (ur) | (reserved) |
| 1056 | Urdu (ur) | Pakistan (PK) |
| 2115 | Uzbek (uz) | Uzbekistan, Cyrillic (UZ) |
| 1091 | Uzbek (uz) | Uzbekistan, Latin (UZ) |
| 1066 | Vietnamese (vi) | Vietnam (VN) |
| 1106 | Welsh (cy) | United Kingdom (GB) |
| 1160 | Wolof (wo) | Senegal (SN) |
| 1076 | Xhosa/isiXhosa (xh) | South Africa (ZA) |
| 1157 | Yakut (sah) | Russia (RU) |
| 1144 | Yi (ii) | PRC (CN) |
| 1130 | Yoruba (yo) | Nigeria (NG) |
| 1077 | Zulu/isiZulu (zu) | South Africa (ZA) |
Notes
Note 1: Primary language identifiers for Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian are numerically identical. For Bosnian, use LANG_BOSNIAN with SUBLANG_BOSNIAN_* sublanguage identifiers. For Croation, use LANG_CROATIAN with SUBLANG_CROATIAN_* sublanguage identifiers. For Serbian, use LANG_SERBIAN with SUBLANG_SERBIAN_* sublanguage identifiers.
Note 2: The language identifiers for Farsi and Persian are numerically identical. The constant LANG_FARSI is deprecated. Use LANG_PERSIAN instead.
Note 3: Always use the language identifier constant LANG_IRISH with SUBLANG_IRISH_IRELAND.
Note 4: SUBLANG_ENGLISH_IRELAND supersedes SUBLANG_ENGLISH_EIRE. The numerical values of the constants are identical.
Note 5: SUBLANG_LITHUANIAN_LITHUANIA supersedes SUBLANG_LITHUANIAN. The numerical values of the constants are identical.
Note 6: SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE_PORTUGAL supersedes SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE. The numerical values of the constants are identical.
Note 7: SUBLANG_SWEDISH_SWEDEN supersedes SUBLANG_SWEDISH. The numerical values of the constants are identical.