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JS: Object of Browser Language Codes
// <![CDATA[
var langCodes = {
"af": "Afrikaans",
"sq": "Albanian",
"an": "Aragonese",
"ar": "Arabic (Standard)",
"ar-dz": "Arabic (Algeria)",
"ar-bh": "Arabic (Bahrain)",
"ar-eg": "Arabic (Egypt)",
"ar-iq": "Arabic (Iraq)",
"ar-jo": "Arabic (Jordan)",
"ar-kw": "Arabic (Kuwait)",
"ar-lb": "Arabic (Lebanon)",
"ar-ly": "Arabic (Libya)",
"ar-ma": "Arabic (Morocco)",
"ar-om": "Arabic (Oman)",
"ar-qa": "Arabic (Qatar)",
"ar-sa": "Arabic (Saudi Arabia)",
"ar-sy": "Arabic (Syria)",
"ar-tn": "Arabic (Tunisia)",
"ar-ae": "Arabic (U.A.E.)",
"ar-ye": "Arabic (Yemen)",
"hy": "Armenian",
"as": "Assamese",
"ast": "Asturian",
"az": "Azerbaijani",
"eu": "Basque",
"bg": "Bulgarian",
"be": "Belarusian",
"bn": "Bengali",
"bs": "Bosnian",
"br": "Breton",
"bg": "Bulgarian",
"my": "Burmese",
"ca": "Catalan",
"ch": "Chamorro",
"ce": "Chechen",
"zh": "Chinese",
"zh-hk": "Chinese (Hong Kong)",
"zh-cn": "Chinese (PRC)",
"zh-sg": "Chinese (Singapore)",
"zh-tw": "Chinese (Taiwan)",
"cv": "Chuvash",
"co": "Corsican",
"cr": "Cree",
"hr": "Croatian",
"cs": "Czech",
"da": "Danish",
"nl": "Dutch (Standard)",
"nl-be": "Dutch (Belgian)",
"en": "English",
"en-au": "English (Australia)",
"en-bz": "English (Belize)",
"en-ca": "English (Canada)",
"en-ie": "English (Ireland)",
"en-jm": "English (Jamaica)",
"en-nz": "English (New Zealand)",
"en-ph": "English (Philippines)",
"en-za": "English (South Africa)",
"en-tt": "English (Trinidad & Tobago)",
"en-gb": "English (United Kingdom)",
"en-us": "English (United States)",
"en-zw": "English (Zimbabwe)",
"eo": "Esperanto",
"et": "Estonian",
"fo": "Faeroese",
"fa": "Farsi",
"fj": "Fijian",
"fi": "Finnish",
"fr": "French (Standard)",
"fr-be": "French (Belgium)",
"fr-ca": "French (Canada)",
"fr-fr": "French (France)",
"fr-lu": "French (Luxembourg)",
"fr-mc": "French (Monaco)",
"fr-ch": "French (Switzerland)",
"fy": "Frisian",
"fur": "Friulian",
"gd": "Gaelic (Scots)",
"gd-ie": "Gaelic (Irish)",
"gl": "Galacian",
"ka": "Georgian",
"de": "German (Standard)",
"de-at": "German (Austria)",
"de-de": "German (Germany)",
"de-li": "German (Liechtenstein)",
"de-lu": "German (Luxembourg)",
"de-ch": "German (Switzerland)",
"el": "Greek",
"gu": "Gujurati",
"ht": "Haitian",
"he": "Hebrew",
"hi": "Hindi",
"hu": "Hungarian",
"is": "Icelandic",
"id": "Indonesian",
"iu": "Inuktitut",
"ga": "Irish",
"it": "Italian (Standard)",
"it-ch": "Italian (Switzerland)",
"ja": "Japanese",
"kn": "Kannada",
"ks": "Kashmiri",
"kk": "Kazakh",
"km": "Khmer",
"ky": "Kirghiz",
"tlh": "Klingon",
"ko": "Korean",
"ko-kp": "Korean (North Korea)",
"ko-kr": "Korean (South Korea)",
"la": "Latin",
"lv": "Latvian",
"lt": "Lithuanian",
"lb": "Luxembourgish",
"mk": "FYRO Macedonian",
"ms": "Malay",
"ml": "Malayalam",
"mt": "Maltese",
"mi": "Maori",
"mr": "Marathi",
"mo": "Moldavian",
"nv": "Navajo",
"ng": "Ndonga",
"ne": "Nepali",
"no": "Norwegian",
"nb": "Norwegian (Bokmal)",
"nn": "Norwegian (Nynorsk)",
"oc": "Occitan",
"or": "Oriya",
"om": "Oromo",
"fa": "Persian",
"fa-ir": "Persian/Iran",
"pl": "Polish",
"pt": "Portuguese",
"pt-br": "Portuguese (Brazil)",
"pa": "Punjabi",
"pa-in": "Punjabi (India)",
"pa-pk": "Punjabi (Pakistan)",
"qu": "Quechua",
"rm": "Rhaeto-Romanic",
"ro": "Romanian",
"ro-mo": "Romanian (Moldavia)",
"ru": "Russian",
"ru-mo": "Russian (Moldavia)",
"sz": "Sami (Lappish)",
"sg": "Sango",
"sa": "Sanskrit",
"sc": "Sardinian",
"gd": "Scots Gaelic",
"sd": "Sindhi",
"si": "Singhalese",
"sr": "Serbian",
"sk": "Slovak",
"sl": "Slovenian",
"so": "Somani",
"sb": "Sorbian",
"es": "Spanish",
"es-ar": "Spanish (Argentina)",
"es-bo": "Spanish (Bolivia)",
"es-cl": "Spanish (Chile)",
"es-co": "Spanish (Colombia)",
"es-cr": "Spanish (Costa Rica)",
"es-do": "Spanish (Dominican Republic)",
"es-ec": "Spanish (Ecuador)",
"es-sv": "Spanish (El Salvador)",
"es-gt": "Spanish (Guatemala)",
"es-hn": "Spanish (Honduras)",
"es-mx": "Spanish (Mexico)",
"es-ni": "Spanish (Nicaragua)",
"es-pa": "Spanish (Panama)",
"es-py": "Spanish (Paraguay)",
"es-pe": "Spanish (Peru)",
"es-pr": "Spanish (Puerto Rico)",
"es-es": "Spanish (Spain)",
"es-uy": "Spanish (Uruguay)",
"es-ve": "Spanish (Venezuela)",
"sx": "Sutu",
"sw": "Swahili",
"sv": "Swedish",
"sv-fi": "Swedish (Finland)",
"sv-sv": "Swedish (Sweden)",
"ta": "Tamil",
"tt": "Tatar",
"te": "Teluga",
"th": "Thai",
"tig": "Tigre",
"ts": "Tsonga",
"tn": "Tswana",
"tr": "Turkish",
"tk": "Turkmen",
"uk": "Ukrainian",
"hsb": "Upper Sorbian",
"ur": "Urdu",
"ve": "Venda",
"vi": "Vietnamese",
"vo": "Volapuk",
"wa": "Walloon",
"cy": "Welsh",
"xh": "Xhosa",
"ji": "Yiddish",
"zu": "Zulu",
};
// ]]>
// Get language
var language = window.navigator.userLanguage || window.navigator.language;
// Get primary standard
language = language.substring( 0, 2 );
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glumb commented Apr 6, 2020

Duplicate key:

"ar":    "Aragonese", // should be "an"
"ar":    "Arabic (Standard)",

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wpsmith commented Apr 18, 2020

Thanks @glumb!

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glumb commented Apr 18, 2020

@wpsmith I found some more duplicates. Have a look at my fork.

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AhmadSaman commented Nov 18, 2022

Hey @wpsmith I think you are missing the Kurdish language

"ku" :  Kurdish

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Duplicated keys

gd: 'Scots Gaelic',
gd: 'Gaelic (Scots)',
fa: 'Farsi',
fa: 'Persian',
bg: 'Bulgarian',
bg: 'Bulgarian',

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