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Google Web Interface and Search Language Codes

Introduction

This article contains a list of the Google web interface language codes (hl=) and the search language codes (lr=) that can be inserted to the URL (web address) in the address bar of the web browser when using a Google service in case you are having problems with your language settings with Google. At the moment (June 2012) there are 149 web interface language codes and 46 search language codes. The language codes have been collected from the HTML source of the Google Preferences page, so you can find them from there also. This page is intended mainly to list the language codes, so you can copy the characters (for example hl=en or lr=lang_en) to the URL you are using, but you may also get directly to your preferred language interface page or search language page by clicking the appropriate link on one of the two below lists.  Keep in mind that not all the Google services have been translated to all the languages listed below. Also, adding the language codes after any URL will not work, so you may need to do some experimenting to find out where you can add them. 

Usage Examples

For example, if you are using the Google Web Search page and the URL in the address bar of your web browser is:

http://www.google.com/search?  

you can define the web interface language to be English by adding hl=en to the end of the URL and after the change the URL will look like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en  

When you use more than one setting code in the URL, you need to use the & character between them. For example, if you also want to define the search language to be English you need to use the & character between the codes like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en  

Because the above URL probably won't work so that the selected search language will be used if you try do a search on that page, you also need to add a search query (q=) to the URL, so the resulting URL will be:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=example  

Remember to press Enter (or equivalent key) on your keyboard after adding the needed characters. 

Web Interface Language Codes

hl=af          Afrikaans

hl=ak          Akan

hl=sq          Albanian

hl=am          Amharic

hl=ar          Arabic

hl=hy          Armenian

hl=az          Azerbaijani

hl=eu          Basque

hl=be          Belarusian

hl=bem         Bemba

hl=bn          Bengali

hl=bh          Bihari

hl=xx-bork     Bork, bork, bork!

hl=bs          Bosnian

hl=br          Breton

hl=bg          Bulgarian

hl=km          Cambodian

hl=ca          Catalan

hl=chr         Cherokee

hl=ny          Chichewa

hl=zh-CN       Chinese (Simplified)

hl=zh-TW       Chinese (Traditional)

hl=co          Corsican

hl=hr          Croatian

hl=cs          Czech

hl=da          Danish

hl=nl          Dutch

hl=xx-elmer    Elmer Fudd

hl=en          English

hl=eo          Esperanto

hl=et          Estonian

hl=ee          Ewe

hl=fo          Faroese

hl=tl          Filipino

hl=fi          Finnish

hl=fr          French

hl=fy          Frisian

hl=gaa         Ga

hl=gl          Galician

hl=ka          Georgian

hl=de          German

hl=el          Greek

hl=gn          Guarani

hl=gu          Gujarati

hl=xx-hacker   Hacker

hl=ht          Haitian Creole

hl=ha          Hausa

hl=haw         Hawaiian

hl=iw          Hebrew

hl=hi          Hindi

hl=hu          Hungarian

hl=is          Icelandic

hl=ig          Igbo

hl=id          Indonesian

hl=ia          Interlingua

hl=ga          Irish

hl=it          Italian

hl=ja          Japanese

hl=jw          Javanese

hl=kn          Kannada

hl=kk          Kazakh

hl=rw          Kinyarwanda

hl=rn          Kirundi

hl=xx-klingon  Klingon

hl=kg          Kongo

hl=ko          Korean

hl=kri         Krio (Sierra Leone)

hl=ku          Kurdish

hl=ckb         Kurdish (Soranî)

hl=ky          Kyrgyz

hl=lo          Laothian

hl=la          Latin

hl=lv          Latvian

hl=ln          Lingala

hl=lt          Lithuanian

hl=loz         Lozi

hl=lg          Luganda

hl=ach         Luo

hl=mk          Macedonian

hl=mg          Malagasy

hl=ms          Malay

hl=ml          Malayalam

hl=mt          Maltese

hl=mi          Maori

hl=mr          Marathi

hl=mfe         Mauritian Creole

hl=mo          Moldavian

hl=mn          Mongolian

hl=sr-ME       Montenegrin

hl=ne          Nepali

hl=pcm         Nigerian Pidgin

hl=nso         Northern Sotho

hl=no          Norwegian

hl=nn          Norwegian (Nynorsk)

hl=oc          Occitan

hl=or          Oriya

hl=om          Oromo

hl=ps          Pashto

hl=fa          Persian

hl=xx-pirate   Pirate

hl=pl          Polish

hl=pt-BR       Portuguese (Brazil)

hl=pt-PT       Portuguese (Portugal)

hl=pa          Punjabi

hl=qu          Quechua

hl=ro          Romanian

hl=rm          Romansh

hl=nyn         Runyakitara

hl=ru          Russian

hl=gd          Scots Gaelic

hl=sr          Serbian

hl=sh          Serbo-Croatian

hl=st          Sesotho

hl=tn          Setswana

hl=crs         Seychellois Creole

hl=sn          Shona

hl=sd          Sindhi

hl=si          Sinhalese

hl=sk          Slovak

hl=sl          Slovenian

hl=so          Somali

hl=es          Spanish

hl=es-419      Spanish (Latin American)

hl=su          Sundanese

hl=sw          Swahili

hl=sv          Swedish

hl=tg          Tajik

hl=ta          Tamil

hl=tt          Tatar

hl=te          Telugu

hl=th          Thai

hl=ti          Tigrinya

hl=to          Tonga

hl=lua         Tshiluba

hl=tum         Tumbuka

hl=tr          Turkish

hl=tk          Turkmen

hl=tw          Twi

hl=ug          Uighur

hl=uk          Ukrainian

hl=ur          Urdu

hl=uz          Uzbek

hl=vi          Vietnamese

hl=cy          Welsh

hl=wo          Wolof

hl=xh          Xhosa

hl=yi          Yiddish

hl=yo          Yoruba

hl=zu          Zulu   

Search Language Codes

lr=lang_af    Afrikaans

lr=lang_ar    Arabic

lr=lang_hy    Armenian

lr=lang_be    Belarusian

lr=lang_bg    Bulgarian

lr=lang_ca    Catalan

lr=lang_zh-CN Chinese (Simplified)

lr=lang_zh-TW Chinese (Traditional)

lr=lang_hr    Croatian

lr=lang_cs    Czech

lr=lang_da    Danish

lr=lang_nl    Dutch

lr=lang_en    English

lr=lang_eo    Esperanto

lr=lang_et    Estonian

lr=lang_tl    Filipino

lr=lang_fi    Finnish

lr=lang_fr    French

lr=lang_de    German

lr=lang_el    Greek

lr=lang_iw    Hebrew

lr=lang_hi    Hindi

lr=lang_hu    Hungarian

lr=lang_is    Icelandic

lr=lang_id    Indonesian

lr=lang_it    Italian

lr=lang_ja    Japanese

lr=lang_ko    Korean

lr=lang_lv    Latvian

lr=lang_lt    Lithuanian

lr=lang_no    Norwegian

lr=lang_fa    Persian

lr=lang_pl    Polish

lr=lang_pt    Portuguese

lr=lang_ro    Romanian

lr=lang_ru    Russian

lr=lang_sr    Serbian

lr=lang_sk    Slovak

lr=lang_sl    Slovenian

lr=lang_es    Spanish

lr=lang_sw    Swahili

lr=lang_sv    Swedish

lr=lang_th    Thai

lr=lang_tr    Turkish

lr=lang_uk    Ukrainian

lr=lang_vi    Vietnamese  

Short Textual List of Only the Language Codes

af, ach, ak, am, ar, az, be, bem, bg, bh, bn, br, bs, ca, chr, ckb,  co, crs, cs, cy, da, de, ee, el, en, eo, es, es-419, et, eu, fa, fi,  fo, fr, fy, ga, gaa, gd, gl, gn, gu, ha, haw, hi, hr, ht, hu, hy, ia,  id, ig, is, it, iw, ja, jw, ka, kg, kk, km, kn, ko, kri, ku, ky, la,  lg, ln, lo, loz, lt, lua, lv, mfe, mg, mi, mk, ml, mn, mo, mr, ms, mt, ne, nl, nn, no, nso, ny, nyn, oc, om, or, pa, pcm, pl, ps, pt-BR,  pt-PT, qu, rm, rn, ro, ru, rw, sd, sh, si, sk, sl, sn, so, sq, sr,  sr-ME, st, su, sv, sw, ta, te, tg, th, ti, tk, tl, tn, to, tr, tt,  tum, tw, ug, uk, ur, uz, vi, wo, xh, xx-bork, xx-elmer, xx-hacker,  xx-klingon, xx-pirate, yi, yo, zh-CN, zh-TW, zu.  

Links

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Last modified: June 11th, 2012

Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)

URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/google-language-codes

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