Windows List of Language Codes for PowerShell

This blog post outlines a list of Windows language codes that can be used with Powershell to add or remove languages (keyboards).

Below is a list of language codes that represent various languages on Windows systems that can be used with PowerShell.

The code example below will add any of the languages below to a Windows machine using PowerShell.

$LanguageList = Get-WinUserLanguageList
$LanguageList.Add("zh-CN")
Set-WinUserLanguageList $LanguageList -Force

To remove a language, use the code below.

$MyLanguageList.Remove(($MyLanguageList | Where-Object LanguageTag -like 'zh-CN'))
Set-WinUserLanguageList $MyLanguageList -Force

Windows Language Codes

1. Afrikaans – af
2. Albanian – sq
3. Amharic – am
4. Arabic – ar
5. Armenian – hy
6. Assamese – as
7. Azerbaijani (Latin) – az-Latn
8. Bangla (Bangladesh) – bn-BD
9. Bangla (India) – bn-IN
10. Basque – eu
11. Belarusian – be
12. Bosnian (Cyrillic) – bs-Cyrl
13. Bosnian (Latin) – bs-Latn
14. Bulgarian – bg
15. Catalan – ca
16. Cherokee – chr
17. Chinese (Simplified, China) – zh-CN
18. Chinese (Simplified, Singapore) – zh-SG
19. Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR) – zh-HK
20. Chinese (Traditional, Macao SAR) – zh-MO
21. Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) – zh-TW
22. Croatian – hr
23. Czech – cs
24. Danish – da
25. Divehi – dv
26. Dutch – nl
27. English (Australia) – en-AU
28. English (Canada) – en-CA
29. English (India) – en-IN
30. English (Ireland) – en-IE
31. English (Malaysia) – en-MY
32. English (New Zealand) – en-NZ
33. English (Singapore) – en-SG
34. English (South Africa) – en-ZA
35. English (United Kingdom) – en-GB
36. English (United States) – en-US
37. Estonian – et
38. Faroese – fo
39. Filipino – fil
40. Finnish – fi
41. French (Belgium) – fr-BE
42. French (Canada) – fr-CA
43. French (France) – fr-FR
44. French (Switzerland) – fr-CH
45. Galician – gl
46. Georgian – ka
47. German (Austria) – de-AT
48. German (Germany) – de-DE
49. German (Switzerland) – de-CH
50. Greek – el
51. Greenlandic – kl
52. Gujarati – gu
53. Hausa (Latin) – ha-Latn
54. Hebrew – he
55. Hindi – hi
56. Hungarian – hu
57. Icelandic – is
58. Igbo (Latin) – ig-Latn
59. Indonesian – id
60. Inuktitut (Latin) – iu-Latn
61. Irish – ga
62. isiXhosa – xh
63. isiZulu – zu
64. Italian (Italy) – it-IT
65. Italian (Switzerland) – it-CH
66. Japanese – ja
67. Kannada – kn
68. Kazakh – kk
69. Khmer – km
70. K’iche’ – qut
71. Kinyarwanda – rw
72. Kiswahili – sw
73. Konkani – kok
74. Korean – ko
75. Kyrgyz – ky
76. Lao – lo
77. Latvian – lv
78. Lithuanian – lt
79. Luxembourgish – lb
80. Macedonian (FYROM) – mk
81. Malay – ms
82. Malayalam – ml