WhatsApp Template Languages

If you use WhatsApp templates, create them in the correct languages so that they map to the languages in your account.

Because the two platforms handle languages differently, a few region-specific WhatsApp languages have no direct equivalent. Avoid using the following languages and use the generic language instead:
  • Chinese (HKG) (zh_HK)

  • Chinese (TAI) (zh_TW)

  • English (UK) (en_UK)

  • English (US) (en_US)

  • Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_BR)

  • Spanish (Argentina) (es_AR)

  • Spanish (Spain) (es_SPA)

  • Spanish (Mexico) (es_MX)

Other languages are mapped as follows:

af="afr"     # Afrikaans
sq="sqi"     # Albanian
ar="ara"     # Arabic
az="aze"     # Azerbaijani
bn="ben"     # Bengali
bg="bul"     # Bulgarian
ca="cat"     # Catalan
zh_CN="zho"  # Chinese (CHN)
hr="hrv"     # Croatian
cs="ces"     # Czech
da="dah"     # Danish
nl="nld"     # Dutch
en="eng"     # English
et="est"     # Estonian
fil="fil"    # Filipino
fi="fin"     # Finnish
fr="fra"     # French
de="deu"     # German
el="ell"     # Greek
gu="gul"     # Gujarati
he="enb"     # Hebrew
hi="hin"     # Hindi
hu="hun"     # Hungarian
id="ind"     # Indonesian
ga="gle"     # Irish
it="ita"     # Italian
ja="jpn"     # Japanese
kn="kan"     # Kannada
kk="kaz"     # Kazakh
ko="kor"     # Korean
lo="lao"     # Lao
lv="lav"     # Latvian
lt="lit"     # Lithuanian
mk="mkd"     # Macedonian
ms="msa"     # Malay
mr="mar"     # Marathi
nb="nob"     # Norwegian
fa="fas"     # Persian
pl="pol"     # Polish
pt_PT="por"  # Portuguese (PT)
pa="pan"     # Punjabi
ro="ron"     # Romanian
ru="rus"     # Russian
sr="srp"     # Serbian
sk="slk"     # Slovak
sl="slv"     # Slovenian
es="spa"     # Spanish
sw="swa"     # Swahili
sv="swe"     # Swedish
ta="tam"     # Tamil
te="tel"     # Telugu
th="tha"     # Thai
tr="tur"     # Turkish
uk="ukr"     # Ukrainian
ur="urd"     # Urdu
uz="uzb"     # Uzbek
vi="vie"     # Vietnamese
Last updated 21 October 2026