Language codes specific to localization industry
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 |
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