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Language API
A language by ISO code, with name, script, and direction.
Pass en, ja, or gsw. The English name, the language's own name for itself, the script it writes in, and whether it reads left-to-right or right-to-left. Both code lengths work: /language/en and /language/eng return the same thing.
/country already returns languages as these codes. Come here for the full record.
Lookup
Parameters 3
- codestring · path · required
ISO 639 language code, 2 or 3 letters
- langstring · query · optional
Display language as one BCP 47 tag, such as fr or zh-Hant. Changes supported display labels only; IDs, codes, native names, facts, parsing and deep access stay unchanged. Omit for the original response. Unsupported regions use the supported language base; unsupported languages or scripts use English. Missing labels retain their source value. Accept-Language is not read automatically. Available on the current API contract; frozen 1.0.0 is unchanged.
- deepboolean · query · optional
Three-letter code and associated countries. Included on every plan, with no additional charge.
import { parseAPI } from '@parseapi/sdk';
const parse = parseAPI("YOUR_API_KEY");
const result = await parse.language("en");
console.log(result);Run on your server with a secret key. Calling from a browser or app?
{
"language": "en",
"name": "English",
"name_local": null,
"script": "Latn",
"direction": "ltr"
}import { parseAPI } from '@parseapi/sdk';
const parse = parseAPI("YOUR_API_KEY");
const result = await parse.language("ja");
console.log(result);Run on your server with a secret key. Calling from a browser or app?
{
"language": "ja",
"name": "Japanese",
"name_local": "日本語",
"script": "Jpan",
"direction": "ltr"
}import { parseAPI } from '@parseapi/sdk';
const parse = parseAPI("YOUR_API_KEY");
const result = await parse.language("ar");
console.log(result);Run on your server with a secret key. Calling from a browser or app?
{
"language": "ar",
"name": "Arabic",
"name_local": "العربية",
"script": "Arab",
"direction": "rtl"
}Response fields
- language
- BCP 47 shortest code. ISO 639-1 when it exists (en), ISO 639-3 otherwise (gsw)
- name
- English name
- name_local
- The language's own name for itself (日本語 for ja), null when absent or identical to name
- script
- ISO 15924 script code (Latn, Jpan, Arab)
- direction
- ltr or rtl
/language/eng resolves to the same en row.
import { parseAPI } from '@parseapi/sdk';
const parse = parseAPI("YOUR_API_KEY");
const result = await parse.language("eng");
console.log(result);Run on your server with a secret key. Calling from a browser or app?
{
"language": "en",
"name": "English",
"name_local": null,
"script": "Latn",
"direction": "ltr"
}Deep
?deep=true Three-letter code and associated countries. Included on every plan, with no additional charge.
import { parseAPI } from '@parseapi/sdk';
const parse = parseAPI("YOUR_API_KEY");
const result = await parse.language("en", { deep: true });
console.log(result);Run on your server with a secret key. Calling from a browser or app?
{
"language": "en",
"name": "English",
"name_local": null,
"script": "Latn",
"direction": "ltr",
"deep": {
"iso3": "eng",
"countries": [
"AG",
"AI",
"AS",
"AU",
"BB"
]
}
}Deep fields
- deep.iso3
- ISO 639-3 code
- deep.countries
- ISO2 countries listing this language
Display language
Pass lang with a language tag such as fr, pt-BR, or zh-Hant. Language name. Each choice covers 194–206 of the 225 current language records.
Omitting lang preserves the original response. Codes, IDs, numeric facts and native-name fields stay unchanged. Missing translations keep their existing source value; unknown values stay null. A preserved name_local may equal the translated name.
Send a chosen browser preference explicitly, for example { lang: navigator.language } in your JavaScript SDK options. The API does not read Accept-Language automatically. Unsupported regions fall back to their supported base language; unsupported languages or scripts use English. Empty, invalid or repeated tags return 400.
Content-Language identifies languages used in translated display fields and known English fallbacks. This option follows the current API contract. Requests selecting frozen 1.0.0 retain that contract. Select API 2.0.0 to use display language.
41 display language choices
| Language tag | Language |
|---|---|
| en | American English |
| zh-Hans | 简体中文 |
| fr | français (France) |
| de | Deutsch |
| it | italiano |
| ja | 日本語 |
| ko | 한국어 |
| es | español de España |
| ar | العربية |
| bg | български |
| ca | català |
| hr | hrvatski |
| cs | čeština |
| da | dansk |
| nl | Nederlands |
| fi | suomi |
| el | Ελληνικά |
| he | עברית |
| hi | हिन्दी |
| hu | magyar |
| id | Indonesia |
| kk | қазақ тілі |
| ms | Melayu |
| nb | norsk bokmål |
| pl | polski |
| pt | português (Brasil) |
| ro | română |
| ru | русский |
| sk | slovenčina |
| sv | svenska |
| th | ไทย |
| tr | Türkçe |
| uk | українська |
| vi | Tiếng Việt |
| zh-Hant | 繁體中文 |
| en-AU | Australian English |
| en-GB | British English |
| fr-CA | français canadien |
| es-419 | español latinoamericano |
| pt-PT | português europeu |
| zh-Hant-HK | 繁體中文（中國香港特別行政區） |
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