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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-J80V1HPMKT"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-J80V1HPMKT'); </script> <title>RSS Language Codes</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Advisory Board" href="http://feeds.rssboard.org/rssboard" /> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com"> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Anton&family=Lisu+Bosa:wght@700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Vkoo8x4CGsO3+Hhxv8T/Q5PaXtkKtu6ug5TOeNV6gBiFeWPGFN9MuhOf23Q9Ifjh" crossorigin="anonymous"> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> @import url("https://www.rssboard.org/images/stylesheet.css"); </style> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> @import url("https://www.rssboard.org/images/spec-stylesheet.css"); </style> <meta name="robots" content="noodp" /> </head> <body>   <div class="container page"> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-md-12 banner"> <h1 class="bannerhead"><a href="/">RSS Advisory Board</a></h1> <h2 class="bannersubhead">Really Simple Syndication specifications, tutorials and discussion</h2> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-md-10"> <div align="center"> <p><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></p> </div>  <div class="specification"> <h3>RSS Language Codes</h3> <p>The language employed in an RSS feed can be indicated in the <a href="https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#optionalChannelElements">language</a> element, which contains a short code that <span class="rfc2119">must</span> be either one of the identifiers on this page or a <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#langcodes">language code</a> permitted by the W3C for use in HTML. The U.S. Library of Congress publishes the current list of <a href="https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/">ISO 639 language codes</a> adopted by HTML.</p> <h4 id="table"><a href="#table">RSS-Specific Language Codes</a></h4> <p>The following table contains the language codes explicitly specified for RSS. They apply to all <a href="https://www.rssboard.org/rss-history">versions of RSS 2.0</a> with one exception: the original <a href="https://www.rssboard.org/rss-0-9-1-netscape">RSS 0.91</a> release by Netscape did not include codes for Estonian ("et") or Hawaiian ("haw").</p> <p><table class="table langcodes"> <tr><th>Language</th><th>Identifier</th></tr> <tr><td>Afrikaans</td><td>af</td></tr> <tr><td>Albanian</td><td>sq</td></tr> <tr><td>Basque</td><td>eu</td></tr> <tr><td>Belarusian</td><td>be</td></tr> <tr><td>Bulgarian</td><td>bg</td></tr> <tr><td>Catalan</td><td>ca</td></tr> <tr><td>Chinese (Simplified)</td><td>zh-cn</td></tr> <tr><td>Chinese (Traditional)</td><td>zh-tw</td></tr> <tr><td>Croatian</td><td>hr</td></tr> <tr><td>Czech</td><td>cs</td></tr> <tr><td>Danish</td><td>da</td></tr> <tr><td>Dutch</td><td>nl</td></tr> <tr><td>Dutch (Belgium)</td><td>nl-be</td></tr> <tr><td>Dutch (Netherlands)</td><td>nl-nl</td></tr> <tr><td>English</td><td>en</td></tr> <tr><td>English (Australia)</td><td>en-au</td></tr> <tr><td>English (Belize)</td><td>en-bz</td></tr> <tr><td>English (Canada)</td><td>en-ca</td></tr> <tr><td>English (Ireland)</td><td>en-ie</td></tr> <tr><td>English (Jamaica)</td><td>en-jm</td></tr> <tr><td>English (New Zealand)</td><td>en-nz</td></tr> <tr><td>English (Phillipines)</td><td>en-ph</td></tr> <tr><td>English (South Africa)</td><td>en-za</td></tr> <tr><td>English (Trinidad)</td><td>en-tt</td></tr> <tr><td>English (United Kingdom)</td><td>en-gb</td></tr> <tr><td>English (United States)</td><td>en-us</td></tr> <tr><td>English (Zimbabwe)</td><td>en-zw</td></tr> <tr><td>Estonian</td><td> et</td></tr> <tr><td>Faeroese</td><td>fo</td></tr> <tr><td>Finnish</td><td>fi</td></tr> <tr><td>French</td><td>fr</td></tr> <tr><td>French (Belgium)</td><td>fr-be</td></tr> <tr><td>French (Canada)</td><td>fr-ca</td></tr> <tr><td>French (France)</td><td>fr-fr</td></tr> <tr><td>French (Luxembourg)</td><td>fr-lu</td></tr> <tr><td>French (Monaco)</td><td>fr-mc</td></tr> <tr><td>French (Switzerland)</td><td>fr-ch</td></tr> <tr><td>Galician</td><td>gl</td></tr> <tr><td>Gaelic</td><td>gd</td></tr> <tr><td>German</td><td>de</td></tr> <tr><td>German (Austria)</td><td>de-at</td></tr> <tr><td>German (Germany)</td><td>de-de</td></tr> <tr><td>German (Liechtenstein)</td><td>de-li</td></tr> <tr><td>German (Luxembourg)</td><td>de-lu</td></tr> <tr><td>German (Switzerland)</td><td>de-ch</td></tr> <tr><td>Greek</td><td>el</td></tr> <tr><td>Hawaiian</td><td>haw</td></tr> <tr><td>Hungarian</td><td>hu</td></tr> <tr><td>Icelandic</td><td>is</td></tr> <tr><td>Indonesian</td><td>in</td></tr> <tr><td>Irish</td><td>ga</td></tr> <tr><td>Italian</td><td>it</td></tr> <tr><td>Italian (Italy)</td><td>it-it</td></tr> <tr><td>Italian (Switzerland)</td><td>it-ch</td></tr> <tr><td>Japanese</td><td>ja</td></tr> <tr><td>Korean</td><td>ko</td></tr> <tr><td>Macedonian</td><td>mk</td></tr> <tr><td>Norwegian</td><td>no</td></tr> <tr><td>Polish</td><td>pl</td></tr> <tr><td>Portuguese</td><td>pt</td></tr> <tr><td>Portuguese (Brazil)</td><td>pt-br</td></tr> <tr><td>Portuguese (Portugal)</td><td>pt-pt</td></tr> <tr><td>Romanian</td><td>ro</td></tr> <tr><td>Romanian (Moldova)</td><td>ro-mo</td></tr> <tr><td>Romanian (Romania)</td><td>ro-ro</td></tr> <tr><td>Russian</td><td>ru</td></tr> <tr><td>Russian (Moldova)</td><td>ru-mo</td></tr> <tr><td>Russian (Russia)</td><td>ru-ru</td></tr> <tr><td>Serbian</td><td>sr</td></tr> <tr><td>Slovak</td><td>sk</td></tr> <tr><td>Slovenian</td><td>sl</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish</td><td>es</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Argentina)</td><td>es-ar</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Bolivia)</td><td>es-bo</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Chile)</td><td>es-cl</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Colombia)</td><td>es-co</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Costa Rica)</td><td>es-cr</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Dominican Republic)</td><td>es-do</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Ecuador)</td><td>es-ec</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (El Salvador)</td><td>es-sv</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Guatemala)</td><td>es-gt</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Honduras)</td><td>es-hn</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Mexico)</td><td>es-mx</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Nicaragua)</td><td>es-ni</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Panama)</td><td>es-pa</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Paraguay)</td><td>es-py</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Peru)</td><td>es-pe</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Puerto Rico)</td><td>es-pr</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Spain)</td><td>es-es</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Uruguay)</td><td>es-uy</td></tr> <tr><td>Spanish (Venezuela)</td><td>es-ve</td></tr> <tr><td>Swedish</td><td>sv</td></tr> <tr><td>Swedish (Finland)</td><td>sv-fi</td></tr> <tr><td>Swedish (Sweden)</td><td>sv-se</td></tr> <tr><td>Turkish</td><td>tr</td></tr> <tr><td>Ukranian</td><td>uk</td></tr> </table> <h4>Comments</h4> <p>Comments and corrections regarding this document are encouraged on the RSS Advisory Board's <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/rss-public">RSS-Public</a> mailing 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