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.
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.
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
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
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.
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Last modified: June 11th, 2012
Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)
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