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BCP 47 code format

Reference 360 uses BCP 47 language codes to identify the languages that you add to the Localization Languages code list.
Each language that your organization uses is represented by a BCP 47 language code. You enter these codes as code values in the Localization Languages code list, and Reference 360 uses them to store and retrieve the language-specific values of multilingual attributes.
For example, English (United States) is denoted as en-US and English (United Kingdom) as en-GB.
A language tag consists of hyphen-separated subtags in the following order:
  1. 1Language. Two or three lowercase letters, such as en for English.
  2. 2Region. Two uppercase letters for country or three digits for the area, such as ES for Spain or 013 for Central America.
The following table describes example BCP 47 language codes and the languages and regions that they represent:
BCP 47 Language Code
Language
Region
Description
de-AT
German
Austria
Austrian German
de-CH
German
Switzerland
Swiss German
de-DE
German
Germany
Standard German as spoken in Germany
en-AU
English
Australia
Australian English
en-CA
English
Canada
Canadian English
en-GB
English
United Kingdom
British English
en-IE
English
Ireland
Irish English
en-IN
English
India
Indian English
en-NZ
English
New Zealand
New Zealand English
en-US
English
United States
US English
en-ZA
English
South Africa
English South Africa
es-AR
Spanish
Argentina
Argentine Spanish
es-CL
Spanish
Chile
Chilean Spanish
es-CO
Spanish
Colombia
Colombian Spanish
es-ES
Spanish
Spain
Castilian Spanish as spoken in Central-Northern Spain
es-MX
Spanish
Mexico
Mexican Spanish
es-US
Spanish
United States
American Spanish
fr-BE
French
Belgium
Belgian French
fr-CA
French
Canada
Canadian French
fr-CH
French
Switzerland
"Swiss" French
fr-FR
French
France
Standard French as spoken in France
ja-JP
Japanese
Japan
Japanese as spoken in Japan
pt-BR
Portuguese
Brazil
Brazilian Portuguese
pt-PT
Portuguese
Portugal
European Portuguese as written and spoken in Portugal
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