Summary
When creating template messages for the WhatsApp Business Platform, businesses must specify the language in which the message will be sent. WhatsApp supports a wide range of languages to help businesses communicate effectively with their global audience. This guide provides a complete list of supported languages and their corresponding language codes.
Instructions
Supported Languages and Language Codes
Use the following table to find the correct language code when creating a template message:
Language | Code |
Afrikaans | af |
Albanian | sq |
Arabic | ar |
Azerbaijani | az |
Bengali | bn |
Bulgarian | bg |
Catalan | ca |
Chinese (CHN) | zh_CN |
Chinese (HKG) | zh_HK |
Chinese (TAI) | zh_TW |
Croatian | hr |
Czech | cs |
Danish | da |
Dutch | nl |
English | en |
English (UK) | en_GB |
English (US) | en_US |
Estonian | et |
Filipino | fil |
Finnish | fi |
French | fr |
German | de |
Greek | el |
Gujarati | gu |
Hausa | ha |
Hebrew | he |
Hindi | hi |
Hungarian | hu |
Indonesian | id |
Irish | ga |
Italian | it |
Japanese | ja |
Kannada | kn |
Kazakh | kk |
Korean | ko |
Lao | lo |
Latvian | lv |
Lithuanian | lt |
Macedonian | mk |
Malay | ms |
Malayalam | ml |
Marathi | mr |
Norwegian | nb |
Persian | fa |
Polish | pl |
Portuguese (BR) | pt_BR |
Portuguese (POR) | pt_PT |
Punjabi | pa |
Romanian | ro |
Russian | ru |
Serbian | sr |
Slovak | sk |
Slovenian | sl |
Spanish | es |
Spanish (ARG) | es_AR |
Spanish (SPA) | es_ES |
Spanish (MEX) | es_MX |
Swahili | sw |
Swedish | sv |
Tamil | ta |
Telugu | te |
Thai | th |
Turkish | tr |
Ukrainian | uk |
Urdu | ur |
Uzbek | uz |
Vietnamese | vi |
Zulu | zu |
Key Takeaways
Businesses must specify a language when creating a WhatsApp message template.
WhatsApp supports multiple languages, covering global and regional variations.
The correct language code must be used to ensure the template is properly processed.
For more details on template message creation, refer to the WhatsApp Business Platform documentation.