Google Web Interface and Search Language CodesIntroductionThis 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 ExamplesFor 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 Codeshl=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 Codeslr=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 Codesaf, 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. LinksRelated Pages Google Translate Google Transliteration Google in Your Language Google Translator Toolkit Google Translate Blog News Google search now supports Cherokee (March 2011) Listen to us now! (December 2010) On-screen Keyboards on Google Translate (December 2010) Google Launches Cantonese Voice Search in Hong Kong (December 2010) Transliteration goes global (December 2009) 51 Languages in Google Translate (August 2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 2007—2012: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com). Disclaimer: This article is provided as is without any express or implied warranties. While every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this article, the contributor assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.
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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