April 19, 2020
Are you planning to translate your WordPress theme or plugins? Make sure to correctly name your translation files with the language code (locale code) used by WordPress so that it can be read by WordPress. You can check the “WordPress Locale Codes” list below.
| Language Name | Language Code | WordPress Locale Code |
| Afrikaans | af | af |
| Akan | ak | ak |
| Albanian | sq | sq |
| Amharic | am | am |
| Arabic | ar | ar |
| Armenian | hy | hy |
| Aromanian | rup | rup_MK |
| Assamese | as | as |
| Azerbaijani | az | az |
| Azerbaijani (Turkey) | az-tr | az_TR |
| Bashkir | ba | ba |
| Basque | eu | eu |
| Belarusian | bel | bel |
| Bengali | bn | bn_BD |
| Bosnian | bs | bs_BA |
| Bulgarian | bg | bg_BG |
| Burmese | mya | my_MM |
| Catalan | ca | ca |
| Catalan (Balear) | bal | bal |
| Chinese (China) | zh-cn | zh_CN |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | zh-hk | zh_HK |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-tw | zh_TW |
| Corsican | co | co |
| Croatian | hr | hr |
| Czech | cs | cs_CZ |
| Danish | da | da_DK |
| Dhivehi | dv | dv |
| Dutch | nl | nl_NL |
| Dutch (Belgium) | nl-be | nl_BE |
| English | en | en_US |
| English (Australia) | en-au | en_AU |
| English (Canada) | en-ca | en_CA |
| English (UK) | en-gb | en_GB |
| Esperanto | eo | eo |
| Estonian | et | et |
| Faroese | fo | fo |
| Finnish | fi | fi |
| French (Belgium) | fr-be | fr_BE |
| French (France) | fr | fr_FR |
| Frisian | fy | fy |
| Fulah | fuc | fuc |
| Galician | gl | gl_ES |
| Georgian | ka | ka_GE |
| German | de | de_DE |
| German (Switzerland) | de-ch | de_CH |
| Greek | el | el |
| Guaraní | gn | gn |
| Gujarati | gu | gu_IN |
| Hawaiian | haw | haw_US |
| Hazaragi | haz | haz |
| Hebrew | he | he_IL |
| Hindi | hi | hi_IN |
| Hungarian | hu | hu_HU |
| Icelandic | is | is_IS |
| Ido | ido | ido |
| Indonesian | id | id_ID |
| Irish | ga | ga |
| Italian | it | it_IT |
| Japanese | ja | ja |
| Javanese | jv | jv_ID |
| Kannada | kn | kn |
| Kazakh | kk | kk |
| Khmer | km | km |
| Kinyarwanda | kin | kin |
| Kirghiz | ky | ky_KY |
| Korean | ko | ko_KR |
| Kurdish (Sorani) | ckb | ckb |
| Lao | lo | lo |
| Latvian | lv | lv |
| Limburgish | li | li |
| Lingala | lin | lin |
| Lithuanian | lt | lt_LT |
| Luxembourgish | lb | lb_LU |
| Macedonian | mk | mk_MK |
| Malagasy | mg | mg_MG |
| Malay | ms | ms_MY |
| Malayalam | ml | ml_IN |
| Marathi | mr | mr |
| Mingrelian | xmf | xmf |
| Mongolian | mn | mn |
| Montenegrin | me | me_ME |
| Nepali | ne | ne_NP |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | nb | nb_NO |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | nn | nn_NO |
| Oriya | ory | ory |
| Ossetic | os | os |
| Pashto | ps | ps |
| Persian | fa | fa_IR |
| Persian (Afghanistan) | fa-af | fa_AF |
| Polish | pl | pl_PL |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br | pt_BR |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | pt | pt_PT |
| Punjabi | pa | pa_IN |
| Rohingya | rhg | rhg |
| Romanian | ro | ro_RO |
| Russian | ru | ru_RU |
| Russian (Ukraine) | ru-ua | ru_UA |
| Rusyn | rue | rue |
| Sakha | sah | sah |
| Sanskrit | sa-in | sa_IN |
| Sardinian | srd | srd |
| Scottish Gaelic | gd | gd |
| Serbian | sr | sr_RS |
| Sindhi | sd | sd_PK |
| Sinhala | si | si_LK |
| Slovak | sk | sk_SK |
| Slovenian | sl | sl_SI |
| Somali | so | so_SO |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | azb |
| Spanish (Argentina) | es-ar | es_AR |
| Spanish (Chile) | es-cl | es_CL |
| Spanish (Colombia) | es-co | es_CO |
| Spanish (Mexico) | es-mx | es_MX |
| Spanish (Peru) | es-pe | es_PE |
| Spanish (Puerto Rico) | es-pr | es_PR |
| Spanish (Spain) | es | es_ES |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | es-ve | es_VE |
| Sundanese | su | su_ID |
| Swahili | sw | sw |
| Swedish | sv | sv_SE |
| Swiss German | gsw | gsw |
| Tagalog | tl | tl |
| Tajik | tg | tg |
| Tamazight (Central Atlas) | tzm | tzm |
| Tamil | ta | ta_IN |
| Tamil (Sri Lanka) | ta-lk | ta_LK |
| Tatar | tt | tt_RU |
| Telugu | te | te |
| Thai | th | th |
| Tibetan | bo | bo |
| Tigrinya | tir | tir |
| Turkish | tr | tr_TR |
| Turkmen | tuk | tuk |
| Uighur | ug | ug_CN |
| Ukrainian | uk | uk |
| Urdu | ur | ur |
| Uzbek | uz | uz_UZ |
| Vietnamese | vi | vi |
| Walloon | wa | wa |
| Welsh | cy | cy |
| Yoruba | yor | yor |
