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Language codes

The Box API uses a modified version of the ISO 639-1 Language Code to specify a user's language.

The following is a list of language codes used when creating or updating.

Language	Code
Bengali	`bn`
Danish	`da`
German	`de`
English (US)	`en`
English (UK)	`gb`
English (Canada)	`e2`
English (Australia)	`e3`
Spanish (Latin America)	`s2`
Spanish	`es`
Finnish	`fi`
French	`fr`
French (Canada)	`f2`
Hindi	`hi`
Italian	`it`
Japanese	`ja`
Korean	`ko`
Norwegian (Bokmal)	`nb`
Dutch	`nl`
Polish	`pl`
Portuguese	`pt`
Russian	`ru`
Swedish	`sv`
Turkish	`tr`
Chinese (Simplified)	`zh`
Chinese (Traditional)	`zt`