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 |