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: |
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Chinese (HKG) (zh_HK)
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Chinese (TAI) (zh_TW)
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English (UK) (en_UK)
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English (US) (en_US)
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Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_BR)
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Spanish (Argentina) (es_AR)
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Spanish (Spain) (es_SPA)
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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