Language code: es
Technical information about ISO 639 language code es
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The table below provides technical details for the Spanish language, designated by the es code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Spanish Native Español |
| Family | Romance |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Plural rules | |
| Language varieties | Castilian SpanishAndalusian SpanishCanarian SpanishCaribbean SpanishMexican SpanishCentral American SpanishAndean SpanishRioplatense SpanishChilean Spanish |
| Related languages | PortugueseGalicianCatalanAstur-LeoneseLadino (Judeo-Spanish) |
| Key facts | Originated from a Latin dialect in medieval Castile and expanded widely after the 13th centuryDistinguishes two verbs for “to be” (ser vs. estar) to convey essence versus stateUses inverted question and exclamation marks (¿, ¡) at the start of interrogative and exclamatory clausesOrthographic standards have been set by the Real Academia Española since 1713Contains hundreds of Arabic loanwords, e.g., almohada (pillow) and azúcar (sugar). |
| Sample phrase | Hola, ¿cómo estás? |
| Character encodings | ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 |
| Supported in Localizely |
Spanish belongs to the Indo-European language family, more precisely to the Romance subgroup. It is officially used in more than 20 countries, dependent territories, and among significant minorities. It is also widely used by international organizations such as the European Union. It is written using Latin script (Spanish alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 500 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Spanish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
es-419 – Spanish (Latin America and the Caribbean)
es-AR – Spanish (Argentina)
es-BO – Spanish (Bolivia)
es-BR – Spanish (Brazil)
es-BZ – Spanish (Belize)
es-CL – Spanish (Chile)
es-CO – Spanish (Colombia)
es-CR – Spanish (Costa Rica)
es-CU – Spanish (Cuba)
es-DO – Spanish (Dominican Republic)
es-EC – SSpanish (Ecuador)
es-ES – Spanish (Spain)
es-GQ – Spanish (Equatorial Guinea)
es-GT – Spanish (Guatemala)
es-HN – Spanish (Honduras)
es-MX – Spanish (Mexico)
es-NI – Spanish (Nicaragua)
es-PA – Spanish (Panama)
es-PE – Spanish (Peru)
es-PH – Spanish (Philippines)
es-PR – Spanish (Puerto Rico)
es-PY – Spanish (Paraguay)
es-SV – Spanish (El Salvador)
es-US – Spanish (United States)
es-UY – Spanish (Uruguay)
es-VE – Spanish (Venezuela)
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- Reports and Statistics
- Figma integration
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- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
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- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
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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