Preferred Language
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When looking at your Contacts, you will see a field for Preferred Language. This is a field to help you and your Agents better manage your Address Book by labeling Contacts with the language that is best for them. The Preferred Language field is currently visible on the Contact's page and the sidebar in the Conversation Dashboard.

Preferred Language is also a value you can set in an Advanced Search for use in your Saved Searches later. This makes it a great option for segmenting your Address Book when sending Announcements or Surveys.

The default language is English, so any existing Contacts and new Contacts will be tagged with the default.

Language Codes

Preferred Languages can also be set using CSV imports or through the API. To do so, you will need to use the ISO 639-1 language code for the Contact's Preferred Language. You can find a list of the languages and their associated codes below.

Code

Language

aa

Afar

ab

Abkhazian

ae

Avestan

af

Afrikaans

ak

Akan

am

Amharic

an

Aragonese

ar

Arabic

as

Assamese

av

Avaric

ay

Aymara

az

Azerbaijani

ba

Bashkir

be

Belarusian

bg

Bulgarian

bh

Bihari languages

bi

Bislama

bm

Bambara

bn

Bengali

bo

Tibetan

br

Breton

bs

Bosnian

ca

Catalan, Valencian

ce

Chechen

ch

Chamorro

co

Corsican

cr

Cree

cs

Czech

cu

Church Slavic, Old Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic

cv

Chuvash

cy

Welsh

da

Danish

de

German

dv

Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian

dz

Dzongkha

ee

Ewe

el

Greek, Modern (1453-)

en

English

eo

Esperanto

es

Spanish, Castilian

et

Estonian

eu

Basque

fa

Persian

ff

Fulah

fi

Finnish

fj

Fijian

fo

Faroese

fr

French

fy

Western Frisian

ga

Irish

gd

Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic

gl

Galician

gn

Guarani

gu

Gujarati

gv

Manx

ha

Hausa

he

Hebrew

hi

Hindi

ho

Hiri Motu

hr

Croatian

ht

Haitian, Haitian Creole

hu

Hungarian

hy

Armenian

hz

Herero

ia

Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)

id

Indonesian

ie

Interlingue, Occidental

ig

Igbo

ii

Sichuan Yi, Nuosu

ik

Inupiaq

io

Ido

is

Icelandic

it

Italian

iu

Inuktitut

ja

Japanese

jv

Javanese

ka

Georgian

kg

Kongo

ki

Kikuyu, Gikuyu

kj

Kuanyama, Kwanyama

kk

Kazakh

kl

Kalaallisut, Greenlandic

km

Central Khmer

kn

Kannada

ko

Korean

kr

Kanuri

ks

Kashmiri

ku

Kurdish

kv

Komi

kw

Cornish

ky

Kirghiz, Kyrgyz

la

Latin

lb

Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch

lg

Ganda

li

Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish

ln

Lingala

lo

Lao

lt

Lithuanian

lu

Luba-Katanga

lv

Latvian

mg

Malagasy

mh

Marshallese

mi

Maori

mk

Macedonian

ml

Malayalam

mn

Mongolian

mr

Marathi

ms

Malay

mt

Maltese

my

Burmese

na

Nauru

nb

Norwegian Bokmål

nd

Ndebele, North, North Ndebele

ne

Nepali

ng

Ndonga

nl

Dutch, Flemish

nn

Norwegian Nynorsk, Nynorsk, Norwegian

no

Norwegian

nr

Ndebele, South, South Ndebele

nv

Navajo, Navaho

ny

Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja

oc

Occitan (post 1500)

oj

Ojibwa

om

Oromo

or

Oriya

os

Ossetian, Ossetic

pa

Panjabi, Punjabi

pi

Pali

pl

Polish

ps

Pushto, Pashto

pt

Portuguese

qu

Quechua

rm

Romansh

rn

Rundi

ro

Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan

ru

Russian

rw

Kinyarwanda

sa

Sanskrit

sc

Sardinian

sd

Sindhi

se

Northern Sami

sg

Sango

si

Sinhala, Sinhalese

sk

Slovak

sl

Slovenian

sm

Samoan

sn

Shona

so

Somali

sq

Albanian

sr

Serbian

ss

Swati

st

Sotho, Southern

su

Sundanese

sv

Swedish

sw

Swahili

ta

Tamil

te

Telugu

tg

Tajik

th

Thai

ti

Tigrinya

tk

Turkmen

tl

Tagalog

tn

Tswana

to

Tonga (Tonga Islands)

tr

Turkish

ts

Tsonga

tt

Tatar

tw

Twi

ty

Tahitian

ug

Uighur, Uyghur

uk

Ukrainian

ur

Urdu

uz

Uzbek

ve

Venda

vi

Vietnamese

vo

Volapük

wa

Walloon

wo

Wolof

xh

Xhosa

yi

Yiddish

yo

Yoruba

za

Zhuang, Chuang

zh

Chinese

zu

Zulu

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