RSS Language Codes
The language employed in an RSS feed can be indicated in the language element, which contains a short code that must be either one of the identifiers on this page or a language code permitted by the W3C for use in HTML. The U.S. Library of Congress publishes the current list of ISO 639 language codes adopted by HTML.
RSS-Specific Language Codes
The following table contains the language codes explicitly specified for RSS. They apply to all versions of RSS 2.0 with one exception: the original RSS 0.91 release by Netscape did not include codes for Estonian ("et") or Hawaiian ("haw").
| Language | Identifier |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af |
| Albanian | sq |
| Basque | eu |
| Belarusian | be |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Catalan | ca |
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh-cn |
| Chinese (Traditional) | zh-tw |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch | nl |
| Dutch (Belgium) | nl-be |
| Dutch (Netherlands) | nl-nl |
| English | en |
| English (Australia) | en-au |
| English (Belize) | en-bz |
| English (Canada) | en-ca |
| English (Ireland) | en-ie |
| English (Jamaica) | en-jm |
| English (New Zealand) | en-nz |
| English (Phillipines) | en-ph |
| English (South Africa) | en-za |
| English (Trinidad) | en-tt |
| English (United Kingdom) | en-gb |
| English (United States) | en-us |
| English (Zimbabwe) | en-zw |
| Estonian | et |
| Faeroese | fo |
| Finnish | fi |
| French | fr |
| French (Belgium) | fr-be |
| French (Canada) | fr-ca |
| French (France) | fr-fr |
| French (Luxembourg) | fr-lu |
| French (Monaco) | fr-mc |
| French (Switzerland) | fr-ch |
| Galician | gl |
| Gaelic | gd |
| German | de |
| German (Austria) | de-at |
| German (Germany) | de-de |
| German (Liechtenstein) | de-li |
| German (Luxembourg) | de-lu |
| German (Switzerland) | de-ch |
| Greek | el |
| Hawaiian | haw |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Icelandic | is |
| Indonesian | in |
| Irish | ga |
| Italian | it |
| Italian (Italy) | it-it |
| Italian (Switzerland) | it-ch |
| Japanese | ja |
| Korean | ko |
| Macedonian | mk |
| Norwegian | no |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-br |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | pt-pt |
| Romanian | ro |
| Romanian (Moldova) | ro-mo |
| Romanian (Romania) | ro-ro |
| Russian | ru |
| Russian (Moldova) | ru-mo |
| Russian (Russia) | ru-ru |
| Serbian | sr |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Spanish | es |
| Spanish (Argentina) | es-ar |
| Spanish (Bolivia) | es-bo |
| Spanish (Chile) | es-cl |
| Spanish (Colombia) | es-co |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | es-cr |
| Spanish (Dominican Republic) | es-do |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | es-ec |
| Spanish (El Salvador) | es-sv |
| Spanish (Guatemala) | es-gt |
| Spanish (Honduras) | es-hn |
| Spanish (Mexico) | es-mx |
| Spanish (Nicaragua) | es-ni |
| Spanish (Panama) | es-pa |
| Spanish (Paraguay) | es-py |
| Spanish (Peru) | es-pe |
| Spanish (Puerto Rico) | es-pr |
| Spanish (Spain) | es-es |
| Spanish (Uruguay) | es-uy |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | es-ve |
| Swedish | sv |
| Swedish (Finland) | sv-fi |
| Swedish (Sweden) | sv-se |
| Turkish | tr |
| Ukranian | uk |
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