List of language tags for some of the languages used by Victorian Government departments and agencies, using valid BCP-47 language codes.
For written Chinese content it is best to use a language code based on the writing system used, either “zh-Hans” or “zh-Hant”. For Audiovisual material, it is best to use a language tag that identifies the spoken language or dialect used.
| Language | Tag |
|---|---|
| Albanian | sq |
| Amharic | am |
| Arabic | ar |
| Arabic, Juba | pga |
| Arabic, Sudanese | apd |
| Armenian | hy |
| Assyrian | aii |
| Bari | bfa |
| Bengali (Bangla) | bn |
| Bosnian | bs |
| Burmese | my |
| Cantonese | yue |
| Chinese, Simplified | zh-Hans |
| Chinese, Traditional | zh-Hant |
| Chin, Hakha | cnh |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Dari | prs |
| Dinka | din |
| Dutch | nl |
| Ewe | ee |
| Fanti (Akan) | fat |
| Fijian | fj |
| Filipino | fil |
| French | fr |
| German | de |
| Greek | el |
| Hakka (Kejia) | hak |
| Hazaragi | haz |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hmong Daw | mww |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Igbo | ig |
| Indonesian | id |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Karen, S'gaw | ksw |
| Khmer (Cambodian) | km |
| Kirundi (Rundi) | rn |
| Korean | ko |
| Kurdish (Arabic script) | ku-Arab |
| Kurdish (Latin script) | ku-Latn |
| Kurdish, Kermashani | sdh |
| Kurdish, Kurmanji | kmr |
| Kurdish, Sorani | ckb |
| Lao (Laotian) | lo |
| Macedonian | mk |
| Malay | ms |
| Maltese | mt |
| Mandarin | zh (or cmn) |
| Nepali | ne |
| Nuer | nus |
| Oromo | om |
| Pashto | ps |
| Persian (Farsi) | fa |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Punjabi | pa |
| Rohingya | rhg |
| Romanian | ro |
| Russian | ru |
| Samoan | sm |
| Serbian | sr |
| Shilluk (Chollo) | shk |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | si |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovene (Slovenian) | sl |
| Somali | so |
| Spanish | es |
| Swahili (Kiswahili) | sw |
| Tagalog | tl |
| Tamil | ta |
| Tetum | tet |
| Thai | th |
| Tigrinya | ti |
| Tongan | to |
| Turkish | tr |
| Turkmen | tk |
| Twi (Akan) | twi |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Urdu | ur |
| Vietnamese | vi |
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