UsingJoomla - Languages

By default, Joomla!^® installs with GB English (en-GB) pre-installed.

However, translations are available of the interfaces, sample data and help screens in a large number of languages.

If no language pack is available for your required / preferred language, instructions are available for creating your own translation, which you can also contribute to the community by starting a translation team to create an accredited translation.

Installable Language packs are available in the following Languages. Do note than a number of these translations may be at various stages of completeness - they are often produced by volunteers who contribute the translation pack to the Joomla community.

Below we have created two tables - one with language packs listed alphabetically by language and one with language packs listed alphabetically by ISO 639-1 language code.

For the benefit of mobile devices and/or smaller screens which will show these two tables vertically (one below the other) you can find the Joomla Language Packs ordered by language here and by ISO 639-1 Code here

Joomla version 3.x Language Pack List By Language

Alphabetical extension index: select a letter to go straight to that lettered section.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Language (variant if applicable)	ISO 639-1 Language Code
A
Africaans	af-ZA
Albanian	sq-AL
Arabic (Unitag)	ar-AA
Armenian	hy-AM
B
Basque	eu-ES
Belarusian	be-BY
Bengali (Bangladesh)	bn-BD
Bosnian	bs-BA
Bulgarian	bg-BG
C
Catalan	ca-ES
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-CN
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-TW
Croatian	hr-HR
Czech	cs-CZ
D
Danish	da-DK
Dari (Persian)	prs-AF
Dutch	nl-NL
Dzonghka	dz-BT
E
English (Australia / Australian)	en-AU
English (Canada / Canadian)	en-CA
English (New Zealand)	en-NZ
English (USA)	en-US
Esperanto	eo-XX
Estonian	et-EE
F
Finnish	fi-FI
Flemmish	nl-BE
French (France)	fr-FR
French (Canada / Canadian)	fr-CA
G
Galician	gl-ES
Georgian	ka-GE
German (Austria / Austrian)	de-AT
German (Germany)	de-DE
German (Liechtenstein)	de-LI
German (Luxembourg)	de-LU
German (Switzerland / Swiss)	de-CH
Greek	el-GR
H
Hebrew	he-IL
Hindi (India)	hi-IN
Hungarian	hu-HU
I
Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)	id-ID
Irish	ga-IE
Italian	it-IT
J
Japanese	ja-JP
K
Kazakh	kk-KZ
Kmer	km-KH
Korean	ko-KR
L
Latvian	lv-LV
Lithuanian	lt-LT
M
Macedonian	mk-MK
Malay	ms-MY
Montenegrin	srp-ME
N
Norwegian (Bokmål)	nb-NO
Norwegian (Nyanorsk)	nn-NO
O
(Sorry - there are no languages here)
P
Persian (Fasi)	fa-IR
Polish	pl-PL
Portugese (Brazil / Brazilian)	pt-BR
Portuguese (Portugal)	pt-PT
Q
(Sorry - there are no languages here)
R
Romanian	ro-RO
Russian	ru-RU
S
Serbian (Cryllic)	sr-RS
Serbian (Latin)	sr-YU
Sinhala	si-LK
Slovak	sk-SK
Slovenian	sl-SL
Spanish (Spain)	es-ES
Spanish (Colombia / Columbian)	es-CO
Swahili	sw-KE
Swedish	sv-SE
Syriac (East)	sy-IQ
T
Tamil (India)	ta-IN
Thai	th-TH
Turkish	tr-TR
Turkmen	tk-TM
U
Ukrainian	uk-UA
Uyghur	ug-CN
V
Vietnamese	vi-VN
W
Welsh	cy-GB
X
(Sorry - there are no languages here)
Y
(Sorry - there are no languages here)
Z
(Sorry - there are no languages here)

Joomla version 3.x Language Pack List By ISO 639-1 Language Code

Alphabetical extension index: select a letter to go straight to that lettered section.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

ISO 639-1 Language Code	Language (variant if applicable)
a
af-ZA	Africaans
ar-AA	Arabic (Unitag)
b
be-BY	Belarusian
bg-BG	Bulgarian
bn-BD	Bengali (Bangladesh)
bs-BA	Bosnian
c
ca-ES	Catalan
cs-CZ	Czech
cy-GB	Welsh
d
da-DK	Danish
de-AT	German (Austria / Austrian)
de-CH	German (Switzerland / Swiss)
de-DE	German (Germany)
de-LI	German (Liechtenstein)
de-LU	German (Luxembourg)
dz-BT	Dzonghka
e
el-GR	Greek
en-AU	English (Australia / Australian)
en-CA	English (Canada / Canadian)
en-NZ	English (New Zealand)
en-US	English (USA)
eo-XX	Esperanto
es-CO	Spanish (Colombia / Columbian)
es-ES	Spanish (Spain)
et-EE	Estonian
eu-ES	Basque
f
fa-IR	Persian (Fasi)
fi-FI	Finnish
fr-CA	French (Canada / Canadian)
fr-FR	French (France)
g
ga-IE	Irish
gl-ES	Galician
h
he-IL	Hebrew
hi-IN	Hindi (India)
hr-HR	Croatian
hu-HU	Hungarian
hy-AM	Armenian
i
id-ID	Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
it-IT	Italian
j
ja-JP	Japanese
k
ka-GE	Georgian
kk-KZ	Kazakh
km-KH	Kmer
ko-KR	Korean
l
lt-LT	Lithuanian
lv-LV	Latvian
m
mk-MK	Macedonian
ms-MY	Malay
n
nb-NO	Norwegian (Bokmål)
nl-BE	Flemmish
nl-NL	Dutch
nn-NO	Norwegian (Nyanorsk)
o
	(Sorry - there are no languages here)
p
pl-PL	Polish
prs-AF	Dari (Persian)
pt-BR	Portugese (Brazil / Brazilian)
pt-PT	Portuguese (Portugal)
q
	(Sorry - there are no languages here)
r
ro-RO	Romanian
ru-RU	Russian
s
si-LK	Sinhala
sk-SK	Slovak
sl-SL	Slovenian
sq-AL	Albanian
sr-RS	Serbian (Cryllic)
sr-YU	Serbian (Latin)
srp-ME	Montenegrin
sv-SE	Swedish
sw-KE	Swahili
sy-IQ	Syriac (East)
t
ta-IN	Tamil (India)
th-TH	Thai
tk-TM	Turkmen
tr-TR	Turkish
u
ug-CN	Uyghur
uk-UA	Ukrainian
v
vi-VN	Vietnamese
w
	(Sorry - there are no languages here)
x
	(Sorry - there are no languages here)
y
	(Sorry - there are no languages here)
z
zh-CN	Chinese (Simplified)
zh-TW	Chinese (Traditional)

Translations of the interfaces are installed using the extensions manager in your website administrator area and then managed using the language manager.

If you have two or more languages installed you may enable the language switcher plugin and module. These should always be used together. If you create multilingual content and mark your content, menu items or modules as being in specific languages and follow the language switcher tutorial your website visitors will be able to select a specific content language using the module. By default both the language switcher plugin and language switcher module are disabled.

There are a number of extensions available in the Joomla! Extensions Directory which can help you manage translations of content in your Joomla CMS powered website.

For Joomla version 3 you can download your required Joomla 3 language pack(s) here

For Joomla version 4 you can download your required Joomla 4 language pack(s) here

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