language code

For a guide to the use of language codes on Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:List of languages

English

Noun

language code (plural language codes)

1. short alphabetic or numeric identifier assigned to a language.

   af is the two-letter language code for Afrikaans.

Related terms

• codepage
• country code
• currency code
• glottocode

Translations

a standard identifier of a language

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語言代碼／语言代码 (yǔyán dàimǎ), 語言碼／语言码 (yǔyánmǎ)

• Danish: sprogkode c
• Dutch: taalcode m
• Estonian: keelekood
• Finnish: kielikoodi
• French: code de langue m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sprachcode m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: cód teanga m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 言語コード (ja) (gengo kōdo)
• Polish: kod językowy m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: код языка́ m (kod jazyká), языково́й код m (jazykovój kod)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: språkkod (sv) c
• Turkish: dil kodu
• Ukrainian: код мови (kod movy), мовний код (movnyj kod)

Further reading

• Meta:Complete list of language wikis available
• ISO 639 Language Codes