Language Tags - Acquire 1.0
Release: 1.5 | March, 11 2025
Print ATTENTION: Acquire 1.0 language tags will be deprecated April 30th, 2025.Accepted Languages
The following language values are approved values for delivery into the Warner Bros. Discovery Media Supply Chain.
| Description | Audio Language Tag | Visual Language Tag | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Afrikaans as spoken in South Africa | af-ZA | af-ZA | Accepted |
Amharic as spoken in Ethiopia | am-ET | am-ET | Accepted |
Arabic as spoken in Saudi Arabia | ar-SA | ar-SA | Accepted |
Azeri as spoken in Azerbaijan | az-AZ | az-AZ | Accepted |
Belarusian as spoken in Belarus | be-BY | be-BY | Accepted |
Bulgarian as spoken in Bulgaria | bg-BG | bg-BG | Accepted |
Bislama as spoken in Vanuatu | bi-VU | bi-VU | Accepted |
Bengali as spoken in Bangladesh | bn-BD | bn-BD | Accepted |
Bengali as spoken in India | bn-IN | bn-IN | Accepted |
Bosnian as spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina | bs-BA | bs-BA | Accepted |
Catalan as spoken in Spain | ca-ES | ca-ES | Accepted |
Mandarin as spoken in Mainland China | cmn-CN | cmn-CN | Accepted |
Mandarin as spoken in Singapore | cmn-SG | Accepted | |
Mandarin as spoken in Taiwan | cmn-TW | Accepted | |
Montenegrin as spoken in Montenegro | cnr-ME | cnr-ME | Accepted |
Seselwa Creole French as spoken in the Seychelles | crs-SC | crs-SC | Accepted |
Czech as spoken in the Czech Republic | cs-CZ | cs-CZ | Accepted |
Welsh as spoken in the United Kingdom | cy-GB | cy-GB | Accepted |
Danish as spoken in Denmark | da-DK | da-DK | Accepted |
German as spoken in Austria | de-AT | de-AT | Accepted |
German as spoken in Germany | de-DE | de-DE | Accepted |
German as spoken in Switzerland | de-CH | de-CH | Accepted |
Divehi as spoken in the Maldives | dv-MV | dv-MV | Accepted |
Dzongkha as spoken in Bhutan | dz-BT | dz-BT | Accepted |
Greek (Modern, 1453-) as spoken in Greece | el-GR | el-GR | Accepted |
English as spoken in the United Kingdom | en-GB | en-GB | Accepted |
English as spoken in the United States | en-US | en-US | Accepted |
Spanish as spoken in Latin America | es-419 | es-419 | Accepted |
Spanish as spoken in Chile | es-CL | es-CL | Accepted |
Castilian as spoken in Spain | es-ES | es-ES | Accepted |
Estonian as spoken in Estonia | et-EE | et-EE | Accepted |
Basque as spoken in Spain | eu-ES | eu-ES | Accepted |
Farsi as spoken in Iran | fa-IR | fa-IR | Accepted |
Finnish as spoken in Finland | fi-FI | fi-FI | Accepted |
Filipino as spoken in the Philippines | fil-PH | fil-PH | Accepted |
Fijian as spoken in Fiji | fj-FJ | fj-FJ | Accepted |
Faroese as spoken in Denmark | fo-DK | fo-DK | Accepted |
French as spoken in Canada | fr-CA | fr-CA | Accepted |
French as spoken in France | fr-FR | fr-FR | Accepted |
Gaelic as spoken in Ireland | ga-IE | ga-IE | Accepted |
Galician as spoken in Spain | gl-ES | gl-ES | Accepted |
Gujarati as spoken in India | gu-IN | gu-IN | Accepted |
Hebrew as spoken in Isreal | he-IL | he-IL | Accepted |
Hindi as spoken in India | hi-IN | hi-IN | Accepted |
Fiji Hindi as spoken in Fiji | hif-FJ | hif-FJ | Accepted |
Croatian as spoken in Croatia | hr-HR | hr-HR | Accepted |
Hungarian as spoken in Hungary | hu-HU | hu-HU | Accepted |
Hungarian as spoken in Romania | hu-RO | hu-RO | Accepted |
Hungarian as spoken in Slovakia | hu-SK | hu-SK | Accepted |
Armenian as spoken in Armenia | hy-AM | hy-AM | Accepted |
Indonesian as spoken in Indonesia | id-ID | id-ID | Accepted |
Icelandic as spoken in Iceland | is-IS | is-IS | Accepted |
Italian as spoken in Italy | it-IT | it-IT | Accepted |
italian as spoken in Switzerland | it-CH | it-CH | Accepted |
Japanese in Hiragana symbols | n/a | ja-Hira-JP | Accepted |
Japanese as spoken in Japan | ja-JP | n/a | Accepted |
Japanese in Han (Kanji), Hiragana, and Katakana symbols | n/a | ja-Jpan-JP | Accepted |
Japanese in Katakana symbols | n/a | ja-Kata-JP | Accepted |
Georgian as spoken in Georgia | ka-GE | ka-GE | Accepted |
Kazakh as spoken in Kazakhstan | kk-KZ | kk-KZ | Accepted |
Kalaallisut as spoken in Greenland | kl-GL | kl-GL | Accepted |
Central Khmer as spoken in Cambodia | km-KH | km-KH | Accepted |
Kannada as spoken in India | kn-IN | kn-IN | Accepted |
Korean as spoken in South Korea | ko-KR | ko-KR | Accepted |
Kirghiz as spoken in Kyrgyzstan | ky-KG | ky-KG | Accepted |
Latin | la | la | Accepted |
Luxembourgish as spoken in Luxembourg | lb-LU | lb-LU | Accepted |
Ganda as spoken in Uganda | lg-UG | lg-UG | Accepted |
Lao as spoken in Laos | lo-LA | lo-LA | Accepted |
Lithuanian as spoken in Lithuania | lt-LT | lt-LT | Accepted |
Latvian as spoken in Latvia | lv-LV | lv-LV | Accepted |
Motu as spoken in Papua New Guinea | meu-PG | meu-PG | Accepted |
Malagasy as spoken in Madagascar | mg-MG | mg-MG | Accepted |
Macedonian as spoken in Macedonia | mk-MK | mk-MK | Accepted |
Malayalam as spoken in India | ml-IN | ml-IN | Accepted |
Mongolian as spoken in Mongolia | mn-MN | mn-MN | Accepted |
Marathi as spoken in India | mr-IN | mr-IN | Accepted |
Malay as spoken in Malaysia | ms-MY | ms-MY | Accepted |
Maltese as spoken in Malta | mt-MT | mt-MT | Accepted |
Burmese as spoken in Myanmar | my-MM | my-MM | Accepted |
Nauru as spoken in Nauru | na-NR | na-NR | Accepted |
Min Nan as spoken in Taiwan | nan-TW | nan-TW | Accepted |
Neapolitan as spoken in Italy | nap-IT | nap-IT | Accepted |
Nepali as spoken in Nepal | ne-NP | ne-NP | Accepted |
Dutch as spoken in Belgium (Flemish) | nl-BE | nl-BE | Accepted |
Dutch as spoken in The Netherlands | nl-NL | nl-NL | Accepted |
Norwegian as spoken in Norway | no-NO | no-NO | Accepted |
Chewa as spoken in Malawi | ny-MW | ny-MW | Accepted |
Panjabi as spoken in India | pa-IN | pa-IN | Accepted |
Punjabi as spoken in Pakistan | pa-PK | pa-PK | Accepted |
Palauan as spoken in Palau | pau-PW | pau-PW | Accepted |
Pitcairn-Norfolk as spoken in Pitcairn | pih-PN | pih-PN | Accepted |
Polish as spoken in Poland | pl-PL | pl-PL | Accepted |
Dari as spoken in Afghanistan | prs-AF | prs-AF | Accepted |
Pashto as spoken in Afghanistan | ps-AF | ps-AF | Accepted |
Portuguese as spoken in Brazil | pt-BR | pt-BR | Accepted |
Portuguese as spoken in Portugal | pt-PT | pt-PT | Accepted |
Rundi as spoken in Burundi | rn-BI | rn-BI | Accepted |
Romanian as spoken in Moldova | ro-MD | ro-MD | Accepted |
Romanian as spoken in Romania | ro-RO | ro-RO | Accepted |
Russian as spoken in Russia | ru-RU | ru-RU | Accepted |
Kinyarwanda as spoken in Rwanda | rw-RW | rw-RW | Accepted |
Sinhala as spoken in Sri Lanka | si-LK | si-LK | Accepted |
Slovakian as spoken in Slovakia | sk-SK | sk-SK | Accepted |
Slovenian as spoken in Slovenia | sl-SI | sl-SI | Accepted |
Samoan as spoken in Samoa | sm-WS | sm-WS | Accepted |
Somali as spoken in Somalia | so-SO | so-SO | Accepted |
Albanian as spoken in Albania | sq-AL | sq-AL | Accepted |
Serbian Latin | sr-RS | sr-Latn-RS | Accepted |
Sranan Tongo as spoken in Suriname | srn-SR | srn-SR | Accepted |
Swati as spoken in eSwatini | ss-SZ | ss-SZ | Accepted |
Southern Sotho as spoken in South Africa | st-ZA | st-ZA | Accepted |
Swedish as spoken in Sweden | sv-SE | sv-SE | Accepted |
Swahili as spoken in Kenya | swh-KE | swh-KE | Accepted |
Swahili as spoken in Tanzania | swh-TZ | swh-TZ | Accepted |
Tamil as spoken in India | ta-IN | ta-IN | Accepted |
Telugu as spoken in India | te-IN | te-IN | Accepted |
Tajik as spoken in Tajikistan | tg-TJ | tg-TJ | Accepted |
Thai as spoken in Thailand | th-TH | th-TH | Accepted |
Tigrinya as spoken in Eritrea | ti-ER | ti-ER | Accepted |
Turkmen as spoken in Turkmenistan | tk-TM | tk-TM | Accepted |
Tagalog as spoken in Philippines | tl-PH | tl-PH | Accepted |
Tswana as spoken in Botswana | tn-BW | tn-BW | Accepted |
Tongan as spoken in the Tongan Islands | to-TO | to-TO | Accepted |
Tok Pisin as spoken in Papua New Guinea | tpi-PG | tpi-PG | Accepted |
Turkish as spoken in Turkey | tr-TR | tr-TR | Accepted |
Tsonga as spoken in South Africa | ts-ZA | ts-ZA | Accepted |
Tuvaluan as spoken in Tuvalu | tvl-TV | tvl-TV | Accepted |
Tahitian as spoken in French Polynesia | ty-PF | ty-PF | Accepted |
Ukranian as spoken in the Ukraine | uk-UA | uk-UA | Accepted |
Undetermined | und | und | Accepted |
Urdu as spoken in India | ur-IN | ur-IN | Accepted |
Uzbek as spoken in Uzbekistan | uz-UZ | uz-UZ | Accepted |
Vietnamese as spoken in Vietnam | vi-VN | vi-VN | Accepted |
Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong | yue-HK | Accepted | |
Chinese | zh | zh | Accepted |
Chinese Simplified based on Mandarin as spoken in Mainland China | zh-Hans-CN | Accepted | |
Chinese Simplified Singapore based on Mandarin as spoken in Taiwan | zh-Hans-TW | Accepted | |
Chinese Traditional Hong Kong as appropriate for Hong Kong | zh-Hant-HK | Accepted | |
Chinese Traditional as appropriate for Taiwan | zh-Hant-TW | Accepted | |
Malay as spoken in Singapore | zlm-SG | zlm-SG | Accepted |
Zulu as spoken in South Africa | zu-ZA | zu-ZA | Accepted |
No linguistic content | zxx | zxx | Accepted |
Deprecated Languages
The following language values are deprecated and will be removed in a future version of this spec, and content containing these values will be rejected. Distributors are strongly encouraged to move to values from the Accepted Languages table as soon as possible.
| Description | Audio Language Tag | Visual Language Tag | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Abkhazian | ab | ab | Deprecated |
Afrikaans | af | af | Deprecated |
Albanian | sq | sq | Deprecated |
Arapho | arp | arp | Deprecated |
Amharic | am | am | Deprecated |
Arabic | ar | ar | Deprecated |
Arabic as spoken in Algeria | arq | arq | Deprecated |
Arabic as spoken in Egypt | arz | arz | Deprecated |
Arabic as spoken in Lebanon | apc | apc | Deprecated |
Arabic as spoken in Morocco | ary | ary | Deprecated |
Arabic as spoken in Tunisia | aeb | aeb | Deprecated |
Standard Arabic | arb | arb | Deprecated |
Armenian | hy | hy | Deprecated |
Western Armenian | hyw | hyw | Deprecated |
Assamese | as | as | Deprecated |
Aymara | ay | ay | Deprecated |
Azerbaijani | az | az-Latn | Deprecated |
Bagri | raj | raj | Deprecated |
Bambara | bm | bm | Deprecated |
Bantu | bnt | bnt | Deprecated |
Basque | eu | eu | Deprecated |
Belarusian | be | be | Deprecated |
Bengali | bn | bn | Deprecated |
Berber | ber | ber | Deprecated |
Bhojpuri | bho | bho | Deprecated |
Bislama | bi | bi | Deprecated |
Bosnian | bs | bs | Deprecated |
Bulgarian | bg | bg | Deprecated |
Burmese | my | my | Deprecated |
Catalan | ca | ca | Deprecated |
Catalan as spoken in France | ca-FR | ca-FR | Deprecated |
Cherokee | chr | chr | Deprecated |
Cantonese | yue |
| Deprecated |
Mandarin | cmn |
| Deprecated |
Min Nan | nan |
| Deprecated |
Simplified Chinese | zh-Hans | Deprecated | |
Traditional Chinese | zh-Hant | Deprecated | |
Corsican | co | co | Deprecated |
Czech | cs | cs | Deprecated |
Danish | da | da | Deprecated |
Divehi | dv |
| Deprecated |
Dutch | nl | nl | Deprecated |
Dzongkha | dz | dz | Deprecated |
English as spoken in Australia | en-AU | en-AU | Deprecated |
English as spoken in Canada | en-CA | en-CA | Deprecated |
English as spoken in Hong Kong | en-HK | en-HK | Deprecated |
English as spoken in Malaysia | en-MY | en-MY | Deprecated |
English as spoken in Montserrat | en-MS | en-MS | Deprecated |
English as spoken in People's Republic of China | en-CN | en-CN | Deprecated |
English as spoken in South Africa | en-ZA | en-ZA | Deprecated |
English as spoken in the Philippines | en-PH | en-PH | Deprecated |
Esperanto | eo | eo | Deprecated |
Estonian, Standard | ekk | ekk | Deprecated |
Faroese | fo | fo | Deprecated |
Fijian | fj | fj | Deprecated |
Filipino | fil | fil | Deprecated |
Finnish | fi | fi | Deprecated |
French as spoken in Belgium | fr-BE | fr-BE | Deprecated |
French as spoken in Switzerland | fr-CH | fr-CH | Deprecated |
Frisian - Eastern | frs | frs | Deprecated |
Frisian - Northern | frr | frr | Deprecated |
Frisian - Western | fy | fy | Deprecated |
Gaelic as spoken in Scotland | gd | gd | Deprecated |
Galician | gl | gl | Deprecated |
Ganda | lg | lg | Deprecated |
Georgian | ka | ka | Deprecated |
Ancient Greek | grc | grc | Deprecated |
Greek as spoken in Cyprus | el-CY | el-CY | Deprecated |
Greek, Modern (1453-) | el | el | Deprecated |
Guarani | gn | gn | Deprecated |
Gujarati | gu | gu | Deprecated |
Hausa | ha | ha | Deprecated |
Hawaiian | haw | haw | Deprecated |
Hawaiian Pidgin | hwc | hwc | Deprecated |
Hebrew | he | he | Deprecated |
Hindi | hi | hi | Deprecated |
Hindi as spoken in Fiji | hif | hif | Deprecated |
Hungarian | hu | hu | Deprecated |
Icelandic | is | is | Deprecated |
Igbo | ig | ig | Deprecated |
Indonesian | id | id | Deprecated |
Inuktitut | iu | iu | Deprecated |
Irish | ga | ga | Deprecated |
Italian | it | it | Deprecated |
Neapolitan | nap | nap | Deprecated |
Jamaican Creole English | jam | jam | Deprecated |
Japanese | ja | ja | Deprecated |
Jauer dialect of Romansh | rm | rm | Deprecated |
Kalaallisut | kl | kl | Deprecated |
Kannada | kn | kn | Deprecated |
Kazakh | kk | kk | Deprecated |
Kinyarwanda | rw | rw | Deprecated |
Kirghiz | ky | ky-Cyrl | Deprecated |
Klingon | tlh | tlh | Deprecated |
Korean | ko | ko | Deprecated |
Kurdish | ku | ku | Deprecated |
Ladakhi | lbj | lbj | Deprecated |
Lao | lo | lo | Deprecated |
Latvian | lv | lv | Deprecated |
Lithuanian | lt | lt | Deprecated |
Luxembourgish | lb | lb | Deprecated |
Macedonian | mk | mk | Deprecated |
Malagasy | mg | mg | Deprecated |
Malay | ms | ms | Deprecated |
Malayalam | ml | ml | Deprecated |
Maltese | mt | mt | Deprecated |
Maori | mi | mi | Deprecated |
Marathi | mr | mr | Deprecated |
Mayan | myn | myn | Deprecated |
Khmer | km | km | Deprecated |
Mongolian | mn | mn-Cyrl | Deprecated |
Mossi | mos | mos | Deprecated |
Motu | meu | meu | Deprecated |
Nauru | na | na | Deprecated |
Navajo | nv | nv | Deprecated |
Nepali | ne | ne | Deprecated |
Northern Sotho | nso | nso | Deprecated |
Norwegian | no | no | Deprecated |
New Norwegian | nn | Deprecated | |
Norwegian Bokmål | nb | Deprecated | |
Nyanja | ny | ny | Deprecated |
Odia | or | or | Deprecated |
Palauan | pau | pau | Deprecated |
Pashto | ps | ps | Deprecated |
Persian | fa | fa | Deprecated |
Dari | prs | prs | Deprecated |
Pitcairn-Norfolk | pih | pih | Deprecated |
Polish | pl | pl | Deprecated |
Punjabi | pa | pa | Deprecated |
Romanian | ro | ro | Deprecated |
Rundi | rn | rn | Deprecated |
Russian | ru | ru | Deprecated |
Samoan | sm | sm | Deprecated |
Sanskrit | sa | sa | Deprecated |
Serbo-Croatian | sh | sh-Latn | Deprecated |
Croatian | hr | hr | Deprecated |
Montenegrin | cnr | cnr-Latn | Deprecated |
Serbian | sr | sr-Latn | Deprecated |
Seychellois Creole | crs | crs | Deprecated |
Sichuan Yi | ii | ii | Deprecated |
American Sign Language | ase | Deprecated | |
Australian Sign Language | asf | Deprecated | |
Brazilian Sign Language | bzs | Deprecated | |
British Sign Language | sgn-bfi | Deprecated | |
French Sign Language | fsl | Deprecated | |
Indian Sign Language | ins | Deprecated | |
Russian Sign Language | rsl | Deprecated | |
Sindhi | sd |
| Deprecated |
Sinhala | si | si | Deprecated |
Slovak | sk | sk | Deprecated |
Slovenian | sl | sl | Deprecated |
Somali | so | so | Deprecated |
Southern Sotho | st | st | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Argentina | es-AR | es-AR | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Bolivia | es-BO | es-BO | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Colombia | es-COL | es-COL | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Costa Rica | es-CR | es-CR | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Cuba | es-CU | es-CU | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Ecuador | es-EC | es-EC | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in El Salvador | es-SV | es-SV | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Honduras | es-HN | es-HN | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in United States | es-US | es-US | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Mexico | es-MX | es-MX | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Nicaragua | es-NI | es-NI | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Panama | es-PA | es-PA | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Paraguay | es-PY | es-PY | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Peru | es-PE | es-PE | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Puerto Rico | es-PR | es-PR | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Uruguay | es-UY | es-UY | Deprecated |
Spanish as spoken in Venezuela | es-VE | es-VE | Deprecated |
Sranan Tongo | srn | srn | Deprecated |
Swahili | swh | sw | Deprecated |
Swati | ss | ss | Deprecated |
Swedish | sv | sv | Deprecated |
Swiss German | gsw | gsw | Deprecated |
Tagalog | tl | tl | Deprecated |
Tahitian | ty | ty | Deprecated |
Tajik | tg | tg-Cyrl | Deprecated |
Tamil | ta | ta | Deprecated |
Telugu | te | te | Deprecated |
Thai | th | th | Deprecated |
Tibetan | bo | bo | Deprecated |
Tigrinya | ti | ti | Deprecated |
Tok Pisin | tpi | tpi | Deprecated |
Tongan (Tonga Islands) | to | to | Deprecated |
Tongan as spoken in Malawi | tog | tog | Deprecated |
Tongan as spoken in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique | toi | toi | Deprecated |
Tsonga | ts | ts | Deprecated |
Tswana | tn | tn | Deprecated |
Tulu | tcy | tcy | Deprecated |
Turkish | tr | tr | Deprecated |
Turkmen | tk | tk | Deprecated |
Tuvaluan | tvl | tvl | Deprecated |
Ukrainian | uk | uk | Deprecated |
Urdu | ur | ur | Deprecated |
Uzbek | uz | uz | Deprecated |
Vietnamese | vi | vi | Deprecated |
Flemish | vls | vls | Deprecated |
Welsh | cy | cy | Deprecated |
Wolof | wo | wo | Deprecated |
Xhosa | xh | xh | Deprecated |
Yiddish | yi | yi | Deprecated |
Yoruba | yo | yo | Deprecated |
Cantonese as spoken in mainland China | yue-CN | yue-CN | Deprecated |
Zulu | zu | zu | Deprecated |
Excluded Languages
The following language values do not meet Warner Bros. Discovery's language requirements and therefore are not accepted values.
| Description | Audio Language Tag | Visual Language Tag | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | en | Excluded |
| Global English | en-001 | en-001 | Excluded |
| French | fr | fr | Excluded |
| Global French | fr-001 | fr-001 | Excluded |
| Spanish | es | es | Excluded |
| Global Spanish | es-001 | es-001 | Excluded |
| Portuguese | pt | pt | Excluded |
| German | de | de | Excluded |
Release History
v1.5 March 11, 2025
- Added deprecation notice
v1.4 June 11, 2024
- Updated Title of page to "Acquire 1.0"
v1.3 June 9, 2022
- Added new language tags to accepted languages: zh-Hans-CN, zh-Hans-TW, zh-Hant-TW, zh-Hant-HK, kn-IN, cmn-TW, cmn-SG, te-IN, ms-MY, yue-HK
- Moved yue-CN to deprecation list
v1.2 April 12, 2022
- Replaced 'WarnerMedia' with 'Warner Bros. Discovery'
v1.1 July 9, 2021
- Added 'Accepted Languages' table
- Added 'Deprecated Languages' table