Different from the regular language codes in ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2, the following table lists all the possible language codes used to specify various system settings, which is specific to the localization industry. For example, Trados use the language codes to identify the locale of each country.

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Language Language 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 SAR) 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 (Caribbean) en
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
Latvian lv
Lithuanian lt
Macedonian (FYROM) mk
Malaysian ms
Maltese mt
Norwegian (Bokmal) no
Norwegian (Nynorsk) no
Polish pl
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-br
Portuguese (Portugal) pt
Rhaeto-Romanic rm
Romanian ro
Romanian (Republic of Moldova) ro-mo
Russian ru
Russian (Republic of Moldova) ru-mo
Sami (Lappish) sz
Serbian (Cyrillic) sr
Serbian (Latin) 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
Sutu sx
Swedish sv
Swedish (Finland) sv-fi
Thai th
Tsonga ts
Tswana tn
Turkish tr
Ukrainian uk
Urdu ur
Venda ve
Vietnamese vi
Xhosa xh
Yiddish ji
Zulu zu