Overview

The three-character language codes listed in the following table are the allowed values for the 'encoding_type' parameter, which is used to specify the language to use for an IDN.

Language	Language code
Afrikaans	AFR
Albanian-ALB	ALB
Arabic	ARA
Aragonese	ARG
Armenian-ARM	ARM
ASCII	(blank, no language code)
Assamese	ASM
Asturian; Bable	AST
Avestan	AVE
Awadhi	AWA
Azerbaijani	AZE
Balinese	BAN
Baluchi	BAL
Basa	BAS
Bashkir	BAK
Basque-BAQ	BAQ
Belarusian	BEL
Bengali	BEN
Bhojpuri	BHO
Bosnian	BOS
Bulgarian	BUL
Burmese-BUR	BUR
Carib	CAR
Catalan	CAT
Chechen	CHE
Chinese-CHI	CHI
Chuvash	CHV
Coptic	COP
Corsican	COS
Croatian-SCR	SCR
Czech-CZE	CZE
Danish	DAN
Divehi	DIV
Dogri	DOI
Dutch-DUT; Flemish	DUT
English	ENG
Estonian	EST
Faroese	FAO
Fijian	FIJ
Finnish	FIN
French-FRE	FRE
Frisian	FRY
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic	GLA
Georgian-GEO	GEO
German-GER	GER
Greek-GRE, Modern (1453-)	GRE
Gondi	GON
Gujarati	GUJ
Hebrew	HEB
Hindi	HIN
Hungarian	HUN
Icelandic-ICE	ICE
Indic (Other)	INC
Indonesian	IND
Ingush	INH
Irish	GLE
Italian	ITA
Japanese	JPN
Kashmiri	KAS
Kazakh	KAZ
Khmer	KHM
Kirghiz	KIR
Korean	KOR
Kurdish	KUR
Lao	LAO
Latvian	LAV
Lithuanian	LIT
Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch	LTZ
Macedonian-MAC	MAC
Malayalam	MAL
Malay-MAY	MAY
Maltese	MLT
Maori-MAO	MAO
Mixed (English) *	ENG
Moldavian	MOL
Mongolian	MON
Nepali	NEP
None specified	NO
Norwegian	NOR
Oriya	ORI
Ossetian; Ossetic	OSS
Panjabi	PAN
Persian-PER	PER
Polish	POL
Portuguese	POR
Pushto	PUS
Rajasthani	RAJ
Romanian-RUM	RUM
Russian	RUS
Samoan	SMO
Sanskrit	SAN
Sardinian	SRD
Serbian-SCC	SCC
Seychelles	SCR
Simplified Chinese	ZH-CN
Sindhi	SND
Sinhalese	SIN
Slovak-SLO	SLO
Slovenian	SLV
Somali	SOM
Spanish; Castilian	SPA
Swahili	SWA
Swedish	SWE
Tajik	TGK
Tamil	TAM
Telugu	TEL
Thai	THA
Tibetan-TIB	TIB
Traditional Chinese	ZH-TW
Turkish	TUR
Ukrainian	UKR
Urdu	URD
Uzbek	UZB
Vietnamese	VIE
Welsh-WEL	WEL
Yiddish	YID

To view which encoding_types are supported, reference the 'IDNs available' column in our TLD reference chart.