Microsoft has 128 regional Windows Stores for Windows Phone apps, and supports 50 languages on the Windows Phone 8 device. Using this information as source we have grouped these Windows Phone regional Stores together based upon the language(s) spoken in these regions and cross referenced it with supported languages on the Windows Phone 8 device. This give developers a useful language mapping to help them decide on what languages to localize their app into.
We have included the ISO 639-1 code for each language in this table. We have also included Microsoft’s Windows Phone language code, which may differ.
Windows Phone 8 device supported languages with their Microsoft Language codes, taken from the official Windows Phone Blog.
Windows Phone Language Code | Supported Language |
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sq-AL | Albanian |
ar-SA | Arabic |
Az-Latn-AZ | Azerbaijani (Latin) |
be-BY | Belarusian |
bg-BG | Bulgarian |
ca-ES | Catalan |
zh-CN | Chinese (Simplified) |
zh-TW | Chinese (Traditional) |
hr-HR | Croatian |
cs-CZ | Czech |
da-DK | Danish |
nl-NL | Dutch |
En-GB | English (GB) |
En-US | English (US) |
et-EE | Estonian |
fil-PH | Filipino |
Fi | Finnish |
fr-FR | French |
de-DE | German |
el-GR | Greek |
he-IL | Hebrew |
hi-IN | Hindi |
hu-HU | Hungarian |
id-ID | Indonesian |
it-IT | Italian |
Windows Phone Language Code | Supported Language |
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ja-JP | Japanese |
kk-KZ | Kazakh |
ko-KR | Korean |
lv-LV | Latvian |
lt-LT | Lithuanian |
mk-MK | Macedonian |
ms-MY | Malay |
nb-NO | Norwegian |
fa-IR | Persian |
pl-PL | Polish |
pt-PT | Portuguese |
pt-BR | Portuguese (Brazilian) |
ro-RO | Romanian |
ru-RU | Russian |
sr-Latn-CS | Serbian (Latin) |
sk-SK | Slovak |
sl-SL | Slovenian |
es-ES | Spanish |
es-MX | Spanish (Mexican) |
sv-SE | Swedish |
th-TH | Thai |
tr-TR | Turkish |
uk-UA | Ukrainian |
uz-Latn-UZ | Uzbek (Latin) |
vi-VN | Vietnamese |
Country Windows Stores for Windows Phone apps.
Algeria |
Angola |
Argentina |
Armenia |
Australia |
Austria |
Azerbaijan |
Bahrain |
Bangladesh |
Belarus |
Belgium |
Benin |
Bolivia |
Brazil |
Bulgaria |
Burkina Faso |
Burundi |
Cameroon |
Canada |
Chad |
Chile |
China |
Colombia |
Congo |
Costa Rica |
Croatia |
Czech Republic |
Denmark |
Dominican Republic |
Ecuador |
Egypt |
El Salvador |
Estonia |
Finland |
France |
Germany |
Ghana |
Greece |
Guatemala |
Guinea |
Haiti |
Honduras |
Hong Kong |
Hungary |
Iceland |
India |
Indonesia |
Iraq |
Ireland |
Israel |
Italy |
Ivory Coast |
Japan |
Jordan |
Kazakhstan |
Kenya |
Korea |
Kuwait |
Latvia |
Liechtenstein |
Lithuania |
Macedonia |
Madagascar |
Malawi |
Malaysia |
Mali |
Mexico |
Mozambique |
Morocco |
Netherlands |
New Zealand |
Nicaragua |
Niger |
Nigeria |
Norway |
Oman |
Pakistan |
Paraguay |
Peru |
Philippines |
Poland |
Portugal |
Qatar |
Romania |
Russia |
Rwanda |
Saudi Arabia |
Senegal |
Serbia |
Sierra Leone |
Singapore |
Slovakia |
Slovenia |
Somalia |
South Africa |
Spain |
Sweden |
Switzerland |
Taiwan |
Tajikistan |
Tanzania |
Thailand |
Togo |
Tunisia |
Turkey |
Turkmenistan |
Uganda |
Ukraine |
United Arab Emirates |
United Kingdom |
United States |
Uzbekistan |
Venezuela |
Vietnam |
Yemen |
Zambia |
Zimbabwe |
Windows Phone 8 supported languages and the regional stores using these languages.
Language Code | Supported Languages | Windows Stores |
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Albanian | Albania |
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Arabic | United Arab Emirates |
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Azerbaijani | Azerbaijan |
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Belarusian | Belarus |
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Bulgarian | Bulgaria |
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Chinese | China |
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Croatian | Croatia |
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Czech | Czech Republic |
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Danish | Denmark |
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Dutch | Netherlands |
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English |
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Estonian | Estonia |
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Filipino | Philippines |
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Finnish | Finland |
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French | France |
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German | Germany |
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Greek | Greece |
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Hebrew | Israel |
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Hindi | India |
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Hungarian | Hungary |
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Indonesian | Indonesia |
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Italian | Italy |
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Japanese | Japan |
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Kazakh | Kazakhstan |
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Korean | Korea |
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Latvian | Latvia |
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Lithuanian | Lithuania |
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Macedonian | Macedonia |
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Malay | Malaysia |
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Norwegian | Norway |
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Polish | Poland |
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Portuguese | Portugal |
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Portuguese (Brazilian) | Brazil |
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Romanian | Romania |
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Russian | Russia |
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Serbian (Latin) | Serbia |
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Slovak | Slovakia |
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Slovenian | Slovenia |
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Spanish | Spain |
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Spanish (Mexican) | Mexico |
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Swedish | Sweden |
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Thai | Thailand |
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Turkish | Turkey |
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Ukrainian | Ukraine |
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Uzbek (Latin) | Uzbekistan |
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Vietnamese | Vietnam |