SharePoint Supported Languages, Culture Names and Locale IDs
April 1, 2009
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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(opens in a new tab), 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/<locale id> folder, for example custom workflow activity .ACTIONS files.
The culture name is used in the names of resource files.
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