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SharePoint Supported Languages, Culture Names and Locale IDs

Jonathan D. Rhyne
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We are dealing with a lot of translation and localisation work at the moment and unfortunately there does not seem to be a definitive list of which languages (and their codes) are supported by SharePoint.

So, we reverse engineered the dropdown menu on the SP1 Language pack download page, resulting in the following table.

Language Name Culture Name Locale ID
Arabic ar-sa 1025
Bulgarian bg-bg 1026
Catalan ca-es 1027
Chinese (Simplified) zh-cn 2052
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) zh-tw 1028
Croatian hr-hr 1050
Czech cs-cz 1029
Danish da-dk 1030
Dutch nl-nl 1043
English en-us 1033
Estonian et-ee 1061

The Locale ID is important for SharePoint Solutions that deploy to the 12/Template/ folder, for example custom workflow activity .ACTIONS files.

The culture name is used in the names of resource files.

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Jonathan D. Rhyne Co-Founder and CEO

Jonathan joined PSPDFKit in 2014. As CEO, Jonathan defines the company’s vision and strategic goals, bolsters the team culture, and steers product direction. When he’s not working, he enjoys being a dad, photography, and soccer.

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