# Supported languages

The following languages are supported for PDF and HTML-based output.

Note:
While language codes listed below use the conventional capitalization style of "aa-BB" and "aa-Script-BB", DITA-OT processing is not case sensitive when reading these values from the `@xml:lang` attribute.

Table 1. Supported languages
Language | Language code | Notes
--- | --- | ---
العربية (Arabic) | ar or ar-EG | Defaults to right-to-left presentation.
Беларуская (Belarusian) | be or be-BY |
Bosanski (Bosnian) | bs or bs-BA |
Български (Bulgarian) | bg or bg-BG |
Català (Catalan) | ca-ES |
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese) | zh-CN or zh-Hans | PDF index is not properly collated by default.
繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese) | zh-TW or zh-Hant | PDF index is not properly collated by default.
Hrvatski (Croatian) | hr or hr-HR |
Čeština (Czech) | cs or cs-CZ |
Dansk (Danish) | da or da-DK |
Nederlands (Dutch) | nl or nl-NL | Subset of generated text also available for Belgian Dutch (nl-BE)
English (US) | en or en-US | Subset of generated text also available for British English (en-GB) and Canadian English (en-CA)
Eesti (Estonian) | et or et-EE |
Suomi (Finnish) | fi or fi-FI |
Français (French) | fr or fr-FR | Subset of generated text also available for Belgian French (fr-BE), Canadian French (fr-CA), and Swiss French (fr-CH)
Deutsch (German) | de or de-DE | Subset of generated text also available for Swiss German (de-CH)
Ελληνικά (Greek) | el or el-GR |
עברית (Hebrew) | he or he-IL | Defaults to right-to-left presentation.
हिन्दी (Hindi) | hi or hi-HI |
Magyar (Hungarian) | hu or hu-HU |
Íslenska (Icelandic) | is or is-IS |
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) | id or id-ID |
Italiano (Italian) | it or it-IT | Subset of generated text also available for Swiss Italian (it-CH)
日本語 (Japanese) | ja or ja-JP | PDF index is not properly collated by default.
Қазақша (Kazakh) | kk or kk-KZ |
한국어 (Korean) | ko or ko-KR |
Latviešu (Latvian) | lv or lv-LV |
Lietuvių (Lithuanian) | lt or lt-LT |
Македонски (Macedonian) | mk or mk-MK |
Bahasa Melayu (Malay) | ms or ms-MY |
Crnogorski (Montenegrin) | sr-Latn-ME |
Norsk (Norwegian) | no or no-NO |
Polski (Polish) | pl or pl-PL |
Português (Portuguese) | pt or pt-PT |
Português do Brasil (Brazilian Portuguese) | pt-BR |
Română (Romanian) | ro or ro-RO |
Русский (Russian) | ru or ru-RU |
Српски (Serbian - Cyrillic script) | sr, sr-CS, sr-RS, or sr-SP |
Srpski (Serbian - Latin script) | sr-Latn-RS |
Slovenčina (Slovak) | sk or sk-SK |
Slovenščina (Slovenian) | sl or sl-SI |
Español (Spanish) | es or es-ES | Also supported using es-419 (Latin American Spanish).
Svenska (Swedish) | sv or sv-SE |
ภาษาไทย (Thai) | th or th-TH |
Türkçe (Turkish) | tr or tr-TR |
Українська (Ukrainian) | uk or uk-UA |
اردو (Urdu) | ur or ur-PK | Defaults to right-to-left presentation.
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) | vi or vi-VN |