You can use
Settings
to configure
language settings for an account, which sets the language to display Gmail in.
For information on how to
get
or
update
language
settings, see the
Settings reference
.
Display language
As noted in the
Settings reference
,
the format of display languages in the
get
and
update
language
settings methods is the
RFC 3066 Language Tag format
.
Not all Gmail clients can display the same set of languages.
In the case that a user's display language is not available for use on a
particular client, said client automatically chooses to display in the closest
supported variant (or a reasonable default).
The set of languages supported by Gmail evolves over time, so please refer to
the "Language" dropdown in the
Gmail settings
for all available options, as described in the
language settings help article
.
The following table describes a rough sample of potential language values:
| Language (in English)
|
Language (as displayed in
Gmail settings)
|
Language Tag (RFC 3066)
|
| Afrikaans
|
Afrikaans
|
af
|
| Azerbaijani
|
Az?rbaycanca
|
az
|
| Indonesian
|
Bahasa Indonesia
|
id
|
| Malay
|
Bahasa Melayu
|
ms
|
| Catalan
|
Catala
|
ca
|
| Czech
|
?esky
|
cs
|
| Welsh
|
Cymraeg
|
cy
|
| Danish
|
Dansk
|
da
|
| German
|
Deutsch
|
de
|
| Estonian
|
Eesti keel
|
et
|
| English (United
Kingdom)
|
English (UK)
|
en-GB
|
| English
|
English (US)
|
en
|
| Spanish
|
Espanol
|
es
|
| Spanish (Latin America
and the Caribbean)
|
Espanol (Latinoamerica)
|
es-419
|
| Basque
|
Euskara
|
eu
|
| Filipino
|
Filipino
|
fil
|
| French
|
Francais
|
fr
|
| French (Canada)
|
Francais (Canada)
|
fr-CA
|
| Irish
|
Gaeilge
|
ga
|
| Gallegan
|
Galego
|
gl
|
| Croatian
|
Hrvatski
|
hr
|
| Italian
|
Italiano
|
it
|
| Zulu
|
IsiZulu
|
zu
|
| Icelandic
|
Islenska
|
is
|
| Swahili
|
Kiswahili
|
sw
|
| Latvian
|
Latvie?u
|
lv
|
| Lithuanian
|
Lietuvi?
|
lt
|
| Hungarian
|
Magyar
|
hu
|
| Norwegian
|
Norsk (Bokmal)
|
no
|
| Dutch
|
Nederlands
|
nl
|
| Polish
|
Polski
|
pl
|
| Portuguese (Brazil)
|
Portugues (Brasil)
|
pt-BR
|
| Portuguese (Portugal)
|
Portugues (Portugal)
|
pt-PT
|
| Romanian
|
Roman?
|
ro
|
| Slovak
|
Slovensky
|
sk
|
| Slovenian
|
Sloven??ina
|
sl
|
| Finnish
|
Suomi
|
fi
|
| Swedish
|
Svenska
|
sv
|
| Vietnamese
|
Ti?ng Vi?t
|
vi
|
| Turkish
|
Turkce
|
tr
|
| Greek
|
Ελληνικ?
|
el
|
| Bulgarian
|
Български
|
bg
|
| Mongolian
|
Монгол
|
mn
|
| Russian
|
Русский
|
ru
|
| Serbian
|
Српски
|
sr
|
| Ukrainian
|
Укра?нська
|
uk
|
| Armenian
|
???????
|
hy
|
| Hebrew
|
?????
|
he
|
| Urdu
|
????
|
ur
|
| Arabic
|
???????
|
ar
|
| Persian
|
?????
|
fa
|
| Nepali
|
?????? (Nepali)
|
ne
|
| Marathi
|
?????
|
mr
|
| Hindi
|
??????
|
hi
|
| Bengali
|
?????
|
bn
|
| Gujarati
|
???????
|
gu
|
| Tamil
|
?????
|
ta
|
| Telugu
|
??????
|
te
|
| Kannada
|
?????
|
kn
|
| Malayalam
|
??????
|
ml
|
| Sinhalese
|
????? (Sinhala)
|
si
|
| Thai
|
???????
|
th
|
| Lao
|
??????? (Lao)
|
lo
|
| Burmese
|
?????????? (Myanmar
language (Burmese))
|
my
|
| Georgian
|
???????
|
ka
|
| Amharic
|
???? (Amharic)
|
am
|
| Cherokee
|
??? (Cherokee)
|
chr
|
| Khmer
|
????????? (Khmer)
|
km
|
| Chinese (Hong Kong)
|
中文 (香港)
|
zh-HK
|
| Chinese (China)
|
中文 (??)
|
zh-CN
|
| Chinese (Taiwan)
|
中文 (繁體)
|
zh-TW
|
| Japanese
|
日本語
|
ja
|
| Korean
|
韓國語
|
ko
|
