Supported Languages
In the table bellow, you will find the list of languages and their respective language tags supported by the newest Phonexia Language Identification technology XL5.
To see, how language tags are created, visit this documentation page, which outlines the international standard utilized to establish consistent guidelines for language tagging.
| Language Name | Language Code | Language Description |
| :------------------ | :-----------: | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- |
| Abkhaz | ab-GE | Official language in the region of Abkhazia (Georgia). |
| Afrikaans | af | Official language of South Africa, also spoken in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| Albanian | sq-AL | Official language of Albania |
| Amharic | am-ET | Official language of Ethiopia |
| Arabic (Egypt) | ar-EG | Arabic dialect spoken in Egypt |
| Arabic (Gulf) | ar-KW | Arabic dialect as spoken in Kuwait, also spoken in Bahrain, Al Hasa, Qatif, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Southern Iraq, and Northern Oman |
| Arabic (Iraq) | ar-IQ | Arabic dialect as spoken in Iraq, also spoken in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, parts of northern and eastern Arabia |
| Arabic (Levantine) | ar-XL | Arabic dialect spoken in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Israel, and Turkey |
| Arabic (Maghrebi) | ar-MA | Arabic dialect spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Western Sahara, Mauritania |
| Arabic (MSA) | arb | Modern Standard Arabic, official language in most countries of the Arab world | |
| Arabic (Oman) | ar-OM | Arabic dialect spoken in Oman |
| Arabic (Saudi) | ar-SA | Arabic dialect spoken in Saudi Arabia |
| Arabic (Tunisia) | ar-TN | Arabic dialect spoken in Tunisia |
| Arabic (Yemen) | ar-YE | Arabic dialect spoken in Yemen |
| Armenian | hy-AM | Official language of Armenia |
| Assamese | as-IN | Official language of the Indian state of Assam |
| Asturian | ast-ES | Minority language spoken in Spain |
| Azerbaijani | az-AZ | Official language of Azerbaijan |
| Bashkir | ba-RU | Official language of Bashkortostan (Russia) |
| Basque | eu | Official language of Basque Country (Spain) |
| Bengali | bn | Official language in Bangladesh and India |
| Belarusian | be-BY | Official language of Belarus |
| Breton | br-FR | Minority language in France |
| Bulgarian | bg-BG | Official language of Bulgaria |
| Burmese | my-MM | Official language of Myanmar |
| Cantonese | zh-HK | Official language of Hong Kong and Macau (China), spoken in southeastern China |
| Cape Verdean Creole | kea-CV | Second language of Cape Verde |
| Catalan | ca-ES | Official language of Catalunya (Spain) |
| Cebuano | ceb-PH | Language spoken in central and southern Philippines |
| Chewa | ny-MW | Official language in Malawi, also spoken in Mozambique and Zambia |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | zh-CN | Official language of China, spoken in northern and southwestern China |
| Chinese (Min) | min-CN | Language spoken in certain parts of southern and eastern China |
| Chinese (Wu) | wuu-CN | Language spoken in China, mainly city of Shanghai, Zhejiang province, Jiangsu province |
| Chuvash | cv-RU | Official language in Chuvash Republic in Russia |
| Czech | cs-CZ | Official language of Czech Republic |
| Danish | da-DK | Official language of Denmark, also spoken in Greenland |
| Dholuo | luo-KE | Minority language spoken in Kenya |
| Dutch | nl | Official language in Netherlands and Belgium |
| English (Australia) | en-AU | English variety spoken in Australia |
| English (India) | en-IN | English variety spoken in India |
| English (US) | en-US | English variety as spoken in USA, official language of USA |
| English (UK) | en-GB | English variety spoken in United Kingdom, official language of UK |
| Estonian | et-EE | Official language of Estonia |
| Faroese | fo | Official language in Faroe Islands, also spoken in Denmark |
| Finnish | fi-FI | Official language of Finland |
| French | fr | Language most widely spoken (and official) in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada |
| Galician | gl-ES | Official language in Galicia (Spain) |
| Georgian | ka-GE | Official language of Georgia |
| German | de | Official language in Germany, Austria, Lichtenstein and Switzerland |
| Greek | el-GR | Official language of Greece |
| Guarani | gn | Official language of Paraguay, Bolivia and specific regions of Brazil and Argentina |
| Gujarati | gu-IN | Official language in Gujarat (India) |
| Haitian Creole | ht-HT | Official language of Haiti, French-based creole language |
| Hausa | ha | Official language in Niger, Nigeria and Ghana, also spoken in Chad, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Ivory coast, Sudan |
| Hawaiian | haw-US | Official language in Hawaii (USA) |
| Hebrew | he-IL | Official language of Israel |
| Hindi | hi-IN | Official language in India |
| Hungarian | hu-HU | Official language of Hungary |
| Icelandic | is-IS | Official language of Iceland |
| Igbo | ig-NG | Official language of Nigeria, also spoken in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea |
| Indonesian | id-ID | Official language of Indonesia |
| Irish | ga-IE | Official language of Ireland and Northern Ireland (UK) |
| Italian | it-IT | Official language Italy, Switzerland, Vatican City and San Marino |
| Japanese | ja-JP | Official language of Japan |
| Javanese | jv-ID | Official language in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) |
| Kamba | kam-KE | Minority language of Kenya |
| Kannada | kn-IN | Official language in Karnataka (India) |
| Kazakh | kk-KZ | Official language of Kazakhstan |
| Khmer | km-KH | Official language of Cambodia |
| Kirundi | rn-BI | Official language of Burundi (also called Kirundi) |
| Korean | ko-KR | Korean variety spoken in South Korea, official language of South Korea |
| Kurdish | ku | Official language in Iraq, also spoken in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey |
| Kyrgyz | ky-KG | Official language of Kyrgyzstan, as spoken in China |
| Lao | lo-LA | Official language of Laos, spoken in Thailand |
| Latvian | lv-LV | Official language of Latvia |
| Lingala | ln | Official language in Congo |
| Lithuanian | lt-LT | Official language in Lithuania |
| Luganda | lg-UG | Language in Uganda |
| Luxembourgish | lb-LU | Official language in Luxembourg |
| Macedonian | mk-MK | Official language in North Macedonia |
| Malay | ms-MY | Official language of Malaysia |
| Malayalam | ml-IN | Official language in several regions of India |
| Malgasy | mg-MG | Official language of Madagascar |
| Maltese | mt-MT | Official language of Malta |
| Māori | mi-NZ | Official language in New Zealand |
| Marathi | mr-IN | Official language in Maharashtra and Goa (India) |
| Mongolian | mn-MN | Official language in Mongolia and China |
| Ndebele (North) | nd-ZW | Ndebele variety spoken in Zimbabwe, official language of Zimbabwe |
| Ndebele (South) | nr-ZA | Ndebele variety spoken in South Africa, official language of South Africa |
| Nepali | ne-NP | Official language in Nepal and India, also spoken in Bhutan |
| Norwegian | no-NO | Official language of Norway |
| Occitan | oc-FR | Minority language in France |
| Odia | or-IN | Official language in Odisha (India) |
| Oromo | om-ET | Language spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya, official language in Oromia region of Ethiopia |
| Punjabi | pa | Official language in some regions of Pakistan and India |
| Pashto | ps | Official language in Afghanistan, spoken in Pakistan |
| Persian | fa | Official language of Iran and Afghanistan (known as Dari) |
| Polish | pl-PL | Official language of Poland |
| Portuguese | pt | Language most widely spoken (and official) in Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Angola |
| Romanian | ro-RO | Official language of Romania |
| Russian | ru-RU | Official language of Russia, most widely spoken in Russia |
| Serbocroatian | hbs | Official language of Serbia (as Serbian), Croatia (as Croatian), Bosnia and Herzegovina (as Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian) and Montenegro (as Montenegrin) |
| Shona | sn | Official language in Zimbabwe, spoken in Mozambique |
| Sindhi | sd | Official language in Sindh (Pakistan) and India |
| Sinhala | si-LK | Official language of Sri Lanka |
| Slovak | sk-SK | Official language of Slovakia |
| Slovenian | sl-SI | Official language of Slovenia |
| Somali | so | Official language in Somalia and Djibouti, also spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya |
| Sotho | st-ZA | Official language in South Africa |
| Spanish (American) | es-XA | Spanish varieties spoken in USA, official in most countries of Central America and South America |
| Spanish (Spain) | es-ES | Spanish variety official in Spain |
| Sundanese | su-ID | Language spoken in Java (Indonesia) |
| Swahili | sw | Official language in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, DR Congo, Rwanda, also spoken in Burundi and Mozambique |
| Swazi | ss-ZA | Official language in South Africa |
| Swedish | sv-SE | Official language of Sweden |
| Tagalog | tl-PH | Official language of Philippines, also known as “Filipino” |
| Tajik | tg | Tajiki variety of Persian, official language of Tajikistan |
| Tamil | ta | Official language in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore |
| Tatar | tt | Official language in Tatarstan (Russia) |
| Telugu | te-IN | Official language in several states of India |
| Thai | th-TH | Official language of Thailand |
| Tibetan | bo | Official language in India, Nepal and Tibet (Western China) |
| Tigrinya | ti | Official language in Eritrea and Ethiopia |
| Tok Pisin | tpi-PG | Official language in Papua New Guinea, English-based creole language |
| Tsonga | ts-ZA | Official language in South Africa and Zimbabwe |
| Tswana | tn-ZA | Variety of tswana as spoken in South Africa, official language of South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe, also spoken in Namibia |
| Turkish | tr-TR | Official language of Turkey |
| Turkmen | tk | Official language of Turkmenistan, also spoken in Iran and Afghanistan |
| Ukrainian | uk-UA | Official language of Ukraine |
| Umbundu | umb-AO | Official language of Angola |
| Urdu | ur | Official language in Pakistan and several states of India |
| Uzbek | uz-UZ | Official language of Uzbekistan, spoken in its neighboring areas of Tajikistan, Russia, Afghanistan, Kyrgysztan and Kazakhstan |
| Venda | ve-ZA | Official language in South Africa and Zimbabwe |
| Vietnamese | vi-VN | Official language of Vietnam |
| Welsh | cy-GB | Minority language in United Kingdom |
| Wolof | wo | Minority language of Senegal, Mauritania and Gambia |
| Xhosa | xh-ZA | Official language of South Africa, Zimbabwe, also spoken in Botswana |
| Yiddish | yi | Minority language spoken in Israel, United States and several European countries |
| Yoruba | yo | Official language in Nigeria, also spoken in Benin and Togo |
| Zulu | zu | Official language in South Africa, spoken in Lesotho and Eswatini |
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