Supported YouTube languages
The lang parameter value designates the desired language for video transcripts. By specifying a particular language code in the YouTube Transcripts API requests, you can indicate your preference for the language of the transcript.
If the preferred language is not available yet, a default language will be used.
You can use a dedicated endpoint to perform translation.
The following values are valid for the lang search parameter:
| Language Code | Language Name |
|---|---|
| af | Afrikaans |
| ak | Akan |
| sq | Albanian |
| am | Amharic |
| ar | Arabic |
| hy | Armenian |
| as | Assamese |
| ay | Aymara |
| az | Azerbaijani |
| bn | Bangla |
| eu | Basque |
| be | Belarusian |
| bho | Bhojpuri |
| bs | Bosnian |
| bg | Bulgarian |
| my | Burmese |
| ca | Catalan |
| ceb | Cebuano |
| zh | Chinese |
| zh-HK | Chinese (Hong Kong) |
| zh-CN | Chinese (China) |
| zh-SG | Chinese (Singapore) |
| zh-TW | Chinese (Taiwan) |
| zh-Hans | Chinese (Simplified) |
| zh-Hant | Chinese (Traditional) |
| hak-TW | Hakka Chinese (Taiwan) |
| nan-TW | Min Nan Chinese (Taiwan) |
| co | Corsican |
| hr | Croatian |
| cs | Czech |
| da | Danish |
| dv | Divehi |
| nl | Dutch |
| en | English |
| en-US | English (United States) |
| eo | Esperanto |
| et | Estonian |
| ee | Ewe |
| fil | Filipino |
| fi | Finnish |
| fr | French |
| gl | Galician |
| lg | Ganda |
| ka | Georgian |
| de | German |
| el | Greek |
| gn | Guarani |
| gu | Gujarati |
| ht | Haitian Creole |
| ha | Hausa |
| haw | Hawaiian |
| iw | Hebrew |
| hi | Hindi |
| hmn | Hmong |
| hu | Hungarian |
| is | Icelandic |
| ig | Igbo |
| id | Indonesian |
| ga | Irish |
| it | Italian |
| ja | Japanese |
| jv | Javanese |
| kn | Kannada |
| kk | Kazakh |
| km | Khmer |
| rw | Kinyarwanda |
| ko | Korean |
| kri | Krio |
| ku | Kurdish |
| ky | Kyrgyz |
| lo | Lao |
| la | Latin |
| lv | Latvian |
| ln | Lingala |
| lt | Lithuanian |
| lb | Luxembourgish |
| mk | Macedonian |
| mg | Malagasy |
| ms | Malay |
| ml | Malayalam |
| mt | Maltese |
| mi | Māori |
| mr | Marathi |
| mn | Mongolian |
| ne | Nepali |
| nso | Northern Sotho |
| no | Norwegian |
| ny | Nyanja |
| or | Odia |
| om | Oromo |
| ps | Pashto |
| fa | Persian |
| pl | Polish |
| pt | Portuguese |
| pa | Punjabi |
| qu | Quechua |
| ro | Romanian |
| ru | Russian |
| sm | Samoan |
| sa | Sanskrit |
| gd | Scottish Gaelic |
| sr | Serbian |
| sn | Shona |
| sd | Sindhi |
| si | Sinhala |
| sk | Slovak |
| sl | Slovenian |
| so | Somali |
| st | Southern Sotho |
| es | Spanish |
| su | Sundanese |
| sw | Swahili |
| sv | Swedish |
| tg | Tajik |
| ta | Tamil |
| tt | Tatar |
| te | Telugu |
| th | Thai |
| ti | Tigrinya |
| ts | Tsonga |
| tr | Turkish |
| tk | Turkmen |
| uk | Ukrainian |
| ur | Urdu |
| ug | Uyghur |
| uz | Uzbek |
| vi | Vietnamese |
| cy | Welsh |
| fy | Western Frisian |
| xh | Xhosa |
| yi | Yiddish |
| yo | Yoruba |
| zu | Zulu |