WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system, is used by millions of individuals and organizations to create websites and blogs. One of its strengths is its ability to cater to a diverse audience through localization. Localization involves translating the software into various languages and tailoring it to specific regions, ensuring that users worldwide can interact with WordPress in their preferred language and cultural context. These language variations are referred to as “locales.”
Understanding WordPress Locales
A WordPress locale comprises two main components: a language code and a country code. The language code represents the primary language, while the country code identifies the specific regional variant. For example, “en_US” represents English as spoken in the United States, whereas “en_GB” represents English as spoken in Great Britain.
The Comprehensive List of WordPress Locales
- Afrikaans – af
- Albanian – sq
- Algerian Arabic – arq
- Amharic – am
- Arabic – ar
- Aragonese – arg
- Armenian – hy
- Arpitan – frp
- Assamese – as
- Asturian – ast
- Azerbaijani – az
- Azerbaijani (Turkey) – az_TR
- Balochi Southern – bcc
- Bashkir – ba
- Basque – eu
- Belarusian – bel
- Bengali (Bangladesh) – bn_BD
- Bengali (India) – bn_IN
- Bhojpuri – bho
- Bodo – brx
- Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo – gax
- Bosnian – bs_BA
- Breton – bre
- Bulgarian – bg_BG
- Catalan – ca
- Catalan (Balear) – bal
- Catalan (Valencian) – ca_valencia
- Cebuano – ceb
- Chinese (China) – zh_CN
- Chinese (Hong Kong) – zh_HK
- Chinese (Singapore) – zh_SG
- Chinese (Taiwan) – zh_TW
- Cornish – cor
- Corsican – co
- Croatian – hr
- Czech – cs_CZ
- Danish – da_DK
- Dhivehi – dv
- Dutch – nl_NL
- Dutch (Belgium) – nl_BE
- Dzongkha – dzo
- Emoji – art_xemoji
- English (Australia) – en_AU
- English (Canada) – en_CA
- English (New Zealand) – en_NZ
- English (Pirate) – art_xpirate
- English (South Africa) – en_ZA
- English (UK) – en_GB
- Esperanto – eo
- Estonian – et
- Ewe – ewe
- Faroese – fo
- Finnish – fi
- Fon – fon
- French (Belgium) – fr_BE
- French (Canada) – fr_CA
- French (France) – fr_FR
- Frisian – fy
- Friulian – fur
- Fulah – fuc
- Galician – gl_ES
- Georgian – ka_GE
- German – de_DE
- German (Austria) – de_AT
- German (Switzerland) – de_CH
- Greek – el
- Greenlandic – kal
- Gujarati – gu
- Haitian Creole – hat
- Hausa – hau
- Hawaiian – haw_US
- Hazaragi – haz
- Hebrew – he_IL
- Hindi – hi_IN
- Hungarian – hu_HU
- Icelandic – is_IS
- Ido – ido
- Igbo – ibo
- Indonesian – id_ID
- Irish – ga
- Italian – it_IT
- Japanese – ja
- Javanese – jv_ID
- Kabyle – kab
- Kannada – kn
- Karakalpak – kaa
- Kazakh – kk
- Khmer – km
- Kinyarwanda – kin
- Korean – ko_KR
- Kurdish (Kurmanji) – kmr
- Kurdish (Sorani) – ckb
- Kyrgyz – kir
- Lao – lo
- Latin – la
- Latvian – lv
- Ligurian – lij
- Limburgish – li
- Lingala – lin
- Lithuanian – lt_LT
- Lombard – lmo
- Lower Sorbian – dsb
- Luganda – lug
- Luxembourgish – lb_LU
- Macedonian – mk_MK
- Maithili – mai
- Malagasy – mg_MG
- Malay – ms_MY
- Malayalam – ml_IN
- Maltese – mlt
- Maori – mri
- Marathi – mr
- Mauritian Creole – mfe
- Mongolian – mn
- Montenegrin – me_ME
- Moroccan Arabic – ary
- Myanmar (Burmese) – my_MM
- Nepali – ne_NP
- Nigerian Pidgin – pcm
- Norwegian (Bokmål) – nb_NO
- Norwegian (Nynorsk) – nn_NO
- N’ko – nqo
- Occitan – oci
- Oriya – ory
- Ossetic – os
- Panjabi (India) – pa_IN
- Papiamento (Aruba) – pap_AW
- Papiamento (Curaçao and Bonaire) – pap_CW
- Pashto – ps
- Persian – fa_IR
- Persian (Afghanistan) – fa_AF
- Picard – pcd
- Polish – pl_PL
- Portuguese (Angola) – pt_AO
- Portuguese (Brazil) – pt_BR
- Portuguese (Portugal) – pt_PT
- Rohingya – rhg
- Romanian – ro_RO
- Romansh – roh
- Russian – ru_RU
- Sakha – sah
- Sanskrit – sa_IN
- Saraiki – skr
- Sardinian – srd
- Scottish Gaelic – gd
- Serbian – sr_RS
- Shona – sna
- Shqip (Kosovo) – sq_XK
- Sicilian – scn
- Silesian – szl
- Sindhi – snd
- Sinhala – si_LK
- Slovak – sk_SK
- Slovenian – sl_SI
- Somali – so_SO
- South Azerbaijani – azb
- Spanish (Argentina) – es_AR
- Spanish (Chile) – es_CL
- Spanish (Colombia) – es_CO
- Spanish (Costa Rica) – es_CR
- Spanish (Dominican Republic) – es_DO
- Spanish (Ecuador) – es_EC
- Spanish (Guatemala) – es_GT
- Spanish (Honduras) – es_HN
- Spanish (Mexico) – es_MX
- Spanish (Peru) – es_PE
- Spanish (Puerto Rico) – es_PR
- Spanish (Spain) – es_ES
- Spanish (Uruguay) – es_UY
- Spanish (Venezuela) – es_VE
- Sundanese – su_ID
- Swahili – sw
- Swati – ssw
- Swedish – sv_SE
- Syriac – syr
- Tagalog – tl
- Tahitian – tah
- Tajik – tg
- Tamazight – zgh
- Tamazight (Central Atlas) – tzm
- Tamil – ta_IN
- Tamil (Sri Lanka) – ta_LK
- Tatar – tt_RU
- Telugu – te
- Thai – th
- Tibetan – bo
- Tigrinya – tir
- Turkish – tr_TR
- Turkmen – tuk
- Tweants – twd
- Uighur – ug_CN
- Ukrainian – uk
- Upper Sorbian – hsb
- Urdu – ur
- Uzbek – uz_UZ
- Venetian – vec
- Vietnamese – vi
- Welsh – cy
- Wolof – wol
- Xhosa – xho
- Yoruba – yor
- Zulu – zul
WordPress is committed to supporting a vast array of languages and locales to make the platform as accessible and user-friendly as possible across the globe. These locales enable users to engage with WordPress in their native languages, promoting inclusivity and expanding the reach of this powerful platform.
List of available languages on translate.wordpress.org
