Exploring Languages Supported by the .NET Framework

Microsoft .NET supports 201 languages broken into 66 major languages. Table 13-1 shows the major languages.

Table 13-1: Major Languages Supported by .NET

Culture Name	Culture Identifier	Language-Country
"" (empty string)	0x007F	Invariant culture
af	0x0036	Afrikaans
sq	0x001C	Albanian
ar	0x0001	Arabic
hy	0x002B	Armenian
az	0x002C	Azeri
eu	0x002D	Basque
be	0x0023	Belarusian
bg	0x0002	Bulgarian
ca	0x0003	Catalan
hr	0x001A	Croatian
cs	0x0005	Czech
da	0x0006	Danish
div	0x0065	Dhivehi
nl	0x0013	Dutch
en	0x0009	English
et	0x0025	Estonian
fo	0x0038	Faroese
fa	0x0029	Farsi
fi	0x000B	Finnish
fr	0x000C	French
gl	0x0056	Galician
ka	0x0037	Georgian
de	0x0007	German
el	0x0008	Greek
gu	0x0047	Gujarati
he	0x000D	Hebrew
hi	0x0039	Hindi
hu	0x000E	Hungarian
is	0x000F	Icelandic
id	0x0021	Indonesian
it	0x0010	Italian
ja	0x0011	Japanese
kn	0x004B	Kannada
kk	0x003F	Kazakh
kok	0x0057	Konkani
ko	0x0012	Korean
ky	0x0040	Kyrgyz
lv	0x0026	Latvian
lt	0x0027	Lithuanian
mk	0x002F	Macedonian
ms	0x003E	Malay
mr	0x004E	Marathi
mn	0x0050	Mongolian
no	0x0014	Norwegian
pl	0x0015	Polish
pt	0x0016	Portuguese
pa	0x0046	Punjabi
ro	0x0018	Romanian
ru	0x0019	Russian
sa	0x004F	Sanskrit
sk	0x001B	Slovak
sl	0x0024	Slovenian
es	0x000A	Spanish
sw	0x0041	Swahili
sv	0x001D	Swedish
syr	0x005A	Syriac
ta	0x0049	Tamil
tt	0x0044	Tatar
te	0x004A	Telugu
th	0x001E	Thai
tr	0x001F	Turkish
uk	0x0022	Ukrainian
ur	0x0020	Urdu
uz	0x0043	Uzbek
vi	0x002A	Vietnamese

Dashes and a second set of letters indicate specific cultures. For example, you will notice that en is the code for English. Some specific cultural versions of the English language are en-AU (English spoken in Australia), en-US (English spoken in the United States), and en-CA (English spoken in Canada). In the section "Accessing Cultural Information in Code" you will see how to use this information to get access to specific language information.