Language Declaration
HTML Character Sets - Part 5
Forward: In this part of my series, I talk about human language declaration.
By: Chrysanthus Date Published: 31 Jul 2012
Introduction
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Description
You should declare, in a web page, the human language that the web page is using. That is, you should declare a human language that the user would read on the web page. Some HTML elements also allow you to declare the language of their contents. The default language for a page is English. Whether you are declaring a language for a whole page or just for an element, the attribute you have to use is, the lang attribute.
Assuming that all the user information (page content) on your web page is in French, then your web page code would be as follows:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="fr">
. . .
<html>
Note the lang attribute and its value in the start html tag. If the web page information were in German, then the start html tag would be
<html lang="de">
The following is the list of the lang attribute values for all the human important languages of the world:
| Language | ISO Code |
|---|---|
| Abkhazian | ab |
| Afar | aa |
| Afrikaans | af |
| Albanian | sq |
| Amharic | am |
| Arabic | ar |
| Armenian | hy |
| Assamese | as |
| Aymara | ay |
| Azerbaijani | az |
| Bashkir | ba |
| Basque | eu |
| Bengali (Bangla) | bn |
| Bhutani | dz |
| Bihari | bh |
| Bislama | bi |
| Breton | br |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Burmese | my |
| Byelorussian (Belarusian) | be |
| Cambodian | km |
| Catalan | ca |
| Cherokee | |
| Chewa | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh |
| Chinese (Traditional) | zh |
| Corsican | co |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Divehi | |
| Dutch | nl |
| Edo | |
| English | en |
| Esperanto | eo |
| Estonian | et |
| Faeroese | fo |
| Farsi | fa |
| Fiji | fj |
| Finnish | fi |
| Flemish | |
| French | fr |
| Frisian | fy |
| Fulfulde | |
| Galician | gl |
| Gaelic (Scottish) | gd |
| Gaelic (Manx) | gv |
| Georgian | ka |
| German | de |
| Greek | el |
| Greenlandic | kl |
| Guarani | gn |
| Gujarati | gu |
| Hausa | ha |
| Hawaiian | |
| Hebrew | he, iw |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Ibibio | |
| Icelandic | is |
| Igbo | |
| Indonesian | id, in |
| Interlingua | ia |
| Interlingue | ie |
| Inuktitut | iu |
| Inupiak | ik |
| Irish | ga |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Javanese | jv |
| Kannada | kn |
| Kanuri | |
| Kashmiri | ks |
| Kazakh | kk |
| Kinyarwanda (Ruanda) | rw |
| Kirghiz | ky |
| Kirundi (Rundi) | rn |
| Konkani | |
| Korean | ko |
| Kurdish | ku |
| Laothian | lo |
| Latin | la |
| Latvian (Lettish) | lv |
| Limburgish ( Limburger) | li |
| Lingala | ln |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Macedonian | mk |
| Malagasy | mg |
| Malay | ms |
| Malayalam | ml |
| Maltese | mt |
| Maori | mi |
| Marathi | mr |
| Moldavian | mo |
| Mongolian | mn |
| Nauru | na |
| Nepali | ne |
| Norwegian | no |
| Occitan | oc |
| Oriya | or |
| Oromo (Afan, Galla) | om |
| Papiamentu | |
| Pashto (Pushto) | ps |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Punjabi | pa |
| Quechua | qu |
| Rhaeto-Romance | rm |
| Romanian | ro |
| Russian | ru |
| Sami (Lappish) | |
| Samoan | sm |
| Sangro | sg |
| Sanskrit | sa |
| Serbian | sr |
| Serbo-Croatian | sh |
| Sesotho | st |
| Setswana | tn |
| Shona | sn |
| Sindhi | sd |
| Sinhalese | si |
| Siswati | ss |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Somali | so |
| Spanish | es |
| Sundanese | su |
| Swahili (Kiswahili) | sw |
| Swedish | sv |
| Syriac | |
| Tagalog | tl |
| Tajik | tg |
| Tamazight | |
| Tamil | ta |
| Tatar | tt |
| Telugu | te |
| Thai | th |
| Tibetan | bo |
| Tigrinya | ti |
| Tonga | to |
| Tsonga | ts |
| Turkish | tr |
| Turkmen | tk |
| Twi | tw |
| Uighur | ug |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Urdu | ur |
| Uzbek | uz |
| Venda | |
| Vietnamese | vi |
| Volapük | vo |
| Welsh | cy |
| Wolof | wo |
| Xhosa | xh |
| Yi | |
| Yiddish | yi, ji |
| Yoruba | yo |
| Zulu | zu |
This is the end of the series. I hope you appreciated it.
Chrys
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