Language code: en
Technical information about ISO 639 language code en
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The table below provides technical details for the English language, designated by the en code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official English Native English |
| Family | Germanic |
| Scripts | |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | American EnglishBritish EnglishAustralian EnglishCanadian EnglishIrish EnglishNew Zealand EnglishSouth African EnglishIndian EnglishCaribbean English |
| Related languages | ScotsFrisianDutchGerman |
| Key facts | English has the largest recorded vocabulary of any language, with more than 600,000 words in the Oxford English DictionaryRoughly 70 % of its lexicon is borrowed from other languages, chiefly Norman French, Latin, and GreekIt lacks a central regulatory academy, so norms are set by descriptive grammars and dictionariesModern English relies on a largely fixed Subject-Verb-Object word orderThe earliest known English text is the 7th-century poem “Caedmon’s Hymn.” |
| Sample phrase | Hello, how are you? |
| Character encodings | ASCII, ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, CP 437, CP 850, MacRoman, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
| Supported in Localizely |
English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, more precisely to the Germanic subgroup. It is the most widespread language in the world, primarily due to the global influence of the British Empire in the past. It is officially used in more than 50 countries and is utilized by various organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union, and the IMF. It is written using the Latin script (English alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 380 million native speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of English speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
en-001 – English (World)
en-150 – English (Europe)
en-AG – English (Antigua and Barbuda)
en-AI – English (Anguilla)
en-AS – English (American Samoa)
en-AT – English (Austria)
en-AU – English (Australia)
en-BB – English (Barbados)
en-BE – English (Belgium)
en-BI – English (Burundi)
en-BM – English (Bermuda)
en-BS – English (Bahamas)
en-BW – English (Botswana)
en-BZ – English (Belize)
en-CA – English (Canada)
en-CC – English (Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
en-CH – English (Switzerland)
en-CK – English (Cook Islands)
en-CM – English (Cameroon)
en-CX – English (Christmas Island)
en-CY – English (Cyprus)
en-DE – English (Germany)
en-DK – English (Denmark)
en-DM – English (Dominica)
en-ER – English (Eritrea)
en-FI – English (Finland)
en-FJ – English (Fiji)
en-FK – English (Falkland Islands)
en-FM – English (Micronesia)
en-GB – English (United Kingdom)
en-GD – English (Grenada)
en-GG – English (Guernsey)
en-GH – English (Ghana)
en-GI – English (Gibraltar)
en-GM – English (Gambia)
en-GU – English (Guam)
en-GY – English (Guyana)
en-HK – English (Hong Kong)
en-IE – English (Ireland)
en-IL – English (Israel)
en-IM – English (Isle of Man)
en-IN – English (India)
en-IO – English (British Indian Ocean Territory)
en-JE – English (Jersey)
en-JM – English (Jamaica)
en-KE – English (Kenya)
en-KI – English (Kiribati)
en-KN – English (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
en-KY – English (Cayman Islands)
en-LC – English (Saint Lucia)
en-LR – English (Liberia)
en-LS – English (Lesotho)
en-MG – English (Madagascar)
en-MH – English (Marshall Islands)
en-MO – English (Macao)
en-MP – English (Northern Mariana Islands)
en-MS – English (Montserrat)
en-MT – English (Malta)
en-MU – English (Mauritius)
en-MW – English (Malawi)
en-MY – English (Malaysia)
en-NA – English (Namibia)
en-NF – English (Norfolk Island)
en-NG – English (Nigeria)
en-NL – English (Netherlands)
en-NR – English (Nauru)
en-NU – English (Niue)
en-NZ – English (New Zealand)
en-PG – English (Papua New Guinea)
en-PH – English (Philippines)
en-PK – English (Pakistan)
en-PN – English (Pitcairn Islands)
en-PR – English (Puerto Rico)
en-PW – English (Palau)
en-RW – English (Rwanda)
en-SB – English (Solomon Islands)
en-SC – English (Seychelles)
en-SD – English (Sudan)
en-SE – English (Sweden)
en-SG – English (Singapore)
en-SH – English (Saint Helena)
en-SI – English (Slovenia)
en-SL – English (Sierra Leone)
en-SS – English (South Sudan)
en-SX – English (Sint Maarten)
en-SZ – English (Eswatini)
en-TC – English (Turks and Caicos Islands)
en-TK – English (Tokelau)
en-TO – English (Tonga)
en-TT – English (Trinidad and Tobago)
en-TV – English (Tuvalu)
en-TZ – English (Tanzania)
en-UG – English (Uganda)
en-UM – English (United States Minor Outlying Islands)
en-US – English (United States)
en-VC – English (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
en-VG – English (British Virgin Islands)
en-VI – English (U.S. Virgin Islands)
en-VU – English (Vanuatu)
en-WS – English (Samoa)
en-ZA – English (South Africa)
en-ZM – English (Zambia)
en-ZW – English (Zimbabwe)
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- What is Localizely?
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ