Langauage Tags - Acquire 1.0
Release: 1.4 | June, 11 2024
PrintAccepted 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
v1.4 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