Table of Language Identifiers
The following are language identifiers. They are composed of a primary language identifier and a sublanguage identifier.
The following identifiers were composed using the MAKELANGID macro.
Identifier Language
0x0000 Language Neutral
0x007f The language for the invariant locale (LOCALE_INVARIANT). See MAKELCID.
0x0400 Process or User Default Language
0x0800 System Default Language
0x0436 Afrikaans
0x041c Albanian
0x0401 Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
0x0801 Arabic (Iraq)
0x0c01 Arabic (Egypt)
0x1001 Arabic (Libya)
0x1401 Arabic (Algeria)
0x1801 Arabic (Morocco)
0x1c01 Arabic (Tunisia)
0x2001 Arabic (Oman)
0x2401 Arabic (Yemen)
0x2801 Arabic (Syria)
0x2c01 Arabic (Jordan)
0x3001 Arabic (Lebanon)
0x3401 Arabic (Kuwait)
0x3801 Arabic (U.A.E.)
0x3c01 Arabic (Bahrain)
0x4001 Arabic (Qatar)
0x042b Windows 2000/XP: Armenian. This is
Unicode only.
0x042c Azeri (Latin)
0x082c Azeri (Cyrillic)
0x042d Basque
0x0423 Belarusian
0x0402 Bulgarian
0x0455 Burmese
0x0403 Catalan
0x0404 Chinese (Taiwan)
0x0804 Chinese (PRC)
0x0c04 Chinese (Hong Kong SAR, PRC)
0x1004 Chinese (Singapore)
0x1404 Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: Chinese (Macao SAR)
0x041a Croatian
0x0405 Czech
0x0406 Danish
0x0465 Windows XP: Divehi. This is
Unicode only.
0x0413 Dutch (Netherlands)
0x0813 Dutch (Belgium)
0x0409 English (United States)
0x0809 English (United Kingdom)
0x0c09 English (Australian)
0x1009 English (Canadian)
0x1409 English (New Zealand)
0x1809 English (Ireland)
0x1c09 English (South Africa)
0x2009 English (Jamaica)
0x2409 English (Caribbean)
0x2809 English (Belize)
0x2c09 English (Trinidad)
0x3009 Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: English (Zimbabwe)
0x3409 Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: English (Philippines)
0x0425 Estonian
0x0438 Faeroese
0x0429 Farsi
0x040b Finnish
0x040c French (Standard)
0x080c French (Belgian)
0x0c0c French (Canadian)
0x100c French (Switzerland)
0x140c French (Luxembourg)
0x180c Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: French (Monaco)
0x0456 Windows XP: Galician
0x0437 Windows 2000/XP: Georgian. This is
Unicode only.
0x0407 German (Standard)
0x0807 German (Switzerland)
0x0c07 German (Austria)
0x1007 German (Luxembourg)
0x1407 German (Liechtenstein)
0x0408 Greek
0x0447 Windows XP: Gujarati. This is
Unicode only.
0x040d Hebrew
0x0439 Windows 2000/XP: Hindi. This is
Unicode only.
0x040e Hungarian
0x040f Icelandic
0x0421 Indonesian
0x0410 Italian (Standard)
0x0810 Italian (Switzerland)
0x0411 Japanese
0x044b Windows XP: Kannada. This is
Unicode only.
0x0457 Windows 2000/XP: Konkani. This is
Unicode only.
0x0412 Korean
0x0812 Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 only: Korean (Johab)
0x0440 Windows XP: Kyrgyz.
0x0426 Latvian
0x0427 Lithuanian
0x0827 Windows 98 only: Lithuanian (Classic)
0x042f FYRO Macedonian
0x043e Malay (Malaysian)
0x083e Malay (Brunei Darussalam)
0x044e Windows 2000/XP: Marathi. This is
Unicode only.
0x0450 Windows XP: Mongolian
0x0414 Norwegian (Bokmal)
0x0814 Norwegian (Nynorsk)
0x0415 Polish
0x0416 Portuguese (Brazil)
0x0816 Portuguese (Portugal)
0x0446 Windows XP: Punjabi. This is
Unicode only.
0x0418 Romanian
0x0419 Russian
0x044f Windows 2000/XP: Sanskrit. This is
Unicode only.
0x0c1a Serbian (Cyrillic)
0x081a Serbian (Latin)
0x041b Slovak
0x0424 Slovenian
0x040a Spanish (Spain, Traditional Sort)
0x080a Spanish (Mexican)
0x0c0a Spanish (Spain, Modern Sort)
0x100a Spanish (Guatemala)
0x140a Spanish (Costa Rica)
0x180a Spanish (Panama)
0x1c0a Spanish (Dominican Republic)
0x200a Spanish (Venezuela)
0x240a Spanish (Colombia)
0x280a Spanish (Peru)
0x2c0a Spanish (Argentina)
0x300a Spanish (Ecuador)
0x340a Spanish (Chile)
0x380a Spanish (Uruguay)
0x3c0a Spanish (Paraguay)
0x400a Spanish (Bolivia)
0x440a Spanish (El Salvador)
0x480a Spanish (Honduras)
0x4c0a Spanish (Nicaragua)
0x500a Spanish (Puerto Rico)
0x0430 Sutu
0x0441 Swahili (Kenya)
0x041d Swedish
0x081d Swedish (Finland)
0x045a Windows XP: Syriac. This is
Unicode only.
0x0449 Windows 2000/XP: Tamil. This is
Unicode only.
0x0444 Tatar (Tatarstan)
0x044a Windows XP: Telugu. This is
Unicode only.
0x041e Thai
0x041f Turkish
0x0422 Ukrainian
0x0420 Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000/XP: Urdu (Pakistan)
0x0820 Urdu (India)
0x0443 Uzbek (Latin)
0x0843 Uzbek (Cyrillic)
0x042a Windows 98/Me, Windows NT 4.0 and later: Vietnamese
The following three combinations of usPrimaryLanguage and usSubLanguage have special meaning.
Primary language identifier Sublanguage identifier Meaning
LANG_NEUTRAL SUBLANG_NEUTRAL Language neutral
LANG_NEUTRAL SUBLANG_DEFAULT User default language
LANG_NEUTRAL SUBLANG_SYS_DEFAULT System default language
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