Language Identifiers and Locales

Applications can use the MAKELANGID macro to create a language identifier.

The first release of Windows NT supports 35 sublanguages/locales.

The following 28 sublanguages/locales use the Latin 1 script:

Latin 1 Script

Identifier
Language
Sublanguage/Locale
Language Code
0x0406
Danish
Danish
DAN
0x0413
Dutch
Dutch (Standard)
NLD
0x0813
Dutch
Belgian (Flemish)
NLB
0x0409
English
American
ENU
0x0809
English
British
ENG
0x0c09
English
Australian
ENA
0x1009
English
Canadian
ENC
0x1409
English
New Zealand
ENZ
0x1809
English
Ireland
ENI
0x040b
Finnish
Finnish
FIN
0x040c
French
French (Standard)
FRA
0x080c
French
Belgian
FRB
0x0c0c
French
Canadian
FRC
0x100c
French
Swiss
FRS
0x0407
German
German (Standard)
DEU
0x0807
German
Swiss
DES
0x0c07
German
Austrian
DEA
0x040f
Icelandic
Icelandic
ISL
0x0410
Italian
Italian (Standard)
ITA
0x0810
Italian
Swiss
ITS
0x0414
Norwegian
Norwegian (Bokmal)
NOR
0x0814
Norwegian
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
NON
0x0416
Portuguese
Portuguese (Brazilian)
PTB
0x0816
Portuguese
Portuguese (Standard)
PTG
0x041D
Swedish
Swedish
SVE
0x040a
Spanish
Spanish (Standard/Traditional)
ESP
0x080a
Spanish
Mexican
ESM
0x0c0a
Spanish
Spanish (Modern)
ESN

The following 5 sublanguages/locales use the Latin 2 script:

Latin 2 Script

Identifier
Sublanguage/Locale
Language Code
0x041f
Turkish
TRK
0x0415
Polish
PLK
0x0405
Czech
CSY
0x041b
Slovak
SKY
0x040e
Hungarian
HUN

The following sublanguage/locale uses the Cyrillic script:

Cyrillic Script

Identifier
Sublanguage/Locale
Language Code
0x0419
Russian
RUS

The following sublanguage/locale uses an other script:

Other Script

Identifier
Sublanguage/Locale
Language Code
0x0408
Greek
ELL

The following special identifiers are also defined:

Special Identifiers

Identifier
Sublanguage/Locale
0x0000
Language-Neutral
0x0400
Process Default Language

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