In HTML elements, the language attribute specifies the natural language. This document is mostly concerned with how to specify the primary language(s) (there could be more than one) and the base language (there is only one) in HTML documents.
Example of the META Language Tag
The value of the Content attribute of the META element is the same as the value of the Content-Language header in HTTP; i.e, a comma-separated list of language codes. For example:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en, fr">
Code for the representation of names of languages
In the primary language tag: All 2-letter tags are interpreted according to ISO standard 639, Code for the representation of names of languages [ISO 639].
Here is a listing of the ISO
| AA "Afar" AB "Abkhazian" AF "Afrikaans" AM "Amharic" AR "Arabic" AS "Assamese" AY "Aymara" AZ "Azerbaijani" BA "Bashkir" BE "Byelorussian" BG "Bulgarian" BH "Bihari" BI "Bislama" BN "Bengali" "Bangla" BO "Tibetan" BR "Breton" CA "Catalan" CO "Corsican" CS "Czech" CY "Welsh" DA "Danish" DE "German" DZ "Bhutani" EL "Greek" EN "English" "American" EO "Esperanto" ES "Spanish" ET "Estonian" EU "Basque" FA "Persian" FI "Finnish" FJ "Fiji" FO "Faeroese" FR "French" FY "Frisian" GA "Irish" GD "Gaelic" "Scots Gaelic" GL "Galician" GN "Guarani" GU "Gujarati" HA "Hausa" HI "Hindi" HR "Croatian" HU "Hungarian" HY "Armenian" IA "Interlingua" |
IE "Interlingue" IK "Inupiak" IN "Indonesian" IS "Icelandic" IT "Italian" IW "Hebrew" JA "Japanese" JI "Yiddish" JW "Javanese" KA "Georgian" KK "Kazakh" KL "Greenlandic" KM "Cambodian" KN "Kannada" KO "Korean" KS "Kashmiri" KU "Kurdish" KY "Kirghiz" LA "Latin" LN "Lingala" LO "Laothian" LT "Lithuanian" LV "Latvian" "Lettish" MG "Malagasy" MI "Maori" MK "Macedonian" ML "Malayalam" MN "Mongolian" MO "Moldavian" MR "Marathi" MS "Malay" MT "Maltese" MY "Burmese" NA "Nauru" NE "Nepali" NL "Dutch" NO "Norwegian" OC "Occitan" OM "Oromo" "Afan" OR "Oriya" PA "Punjabi" PL "Polish" PS "Pashto" "Pushto" PT "Portuguese" QU "Quechua" |
RM "Rhaeto-Romance" RN "Kirundi" RO "Romanian" RU "Russian" RW "Kinyarwanda" SA "Sanskrit" SD "Sindhi" SG "Sangro" SH "Serbo-Croatian" SI "Singhalese" SK "Slovak" SL "Slovenian" SM "Samoan" SN "Shona" SO "Somali" SQ "Albanian" SR "Serbian" SS "Siswati" ST "Sesotho" SU "Sudanese" SV "Swedish" SW "Swahili" TA "Tamil" TE "Tegulu" TG "Tajik" TH "Thai" TI "Tigrinya" TK "Turkmen" TL "Tagalog" TN "Setswana" TO "Tonga" TR "Turkish" TS "Tsonga" TT "Tatar" TW "Twi" UK "Ukrainian" UR "Urdu" UZ "Uzbek" VI "Vietnamese" VO "Volapuk" WO "Wolof" XH "Xhosa" YO "Yoruba" ZH "Chinese" ZU "Zulu" |