# (BCL) Booking.com Language Codes

Some languages have a legacy code associated with them. Legacy codes are aliases that will be mapped to their corresponding Booking.com code before being saved. The legacy codes are supported in the following APIs:

* Checkin Methods API
* Contracting API
* Key Collection API
* Opportunities API
* OTA_HotelDescriptiveContentNotif
* OTA_HotelInvNotif


| Booking.com code | Language | Legacy Code |
|  --- | --- | --- |
| af | Afrikaans |  |
| ar | Arabic |  |
| az | Azerbaijani |  |
| be | Belarusian |  |
| bg | Bulgarian |  |
| ca | Catalan |  |
| cs | Czech |  |
| da | Danish |  |
| de | German |  |
| el | Greek |  |
| en-gb | English (UK) | en |
| en-us | English (American) | xu |
| es | Spanish |  |
| es-ar | Spanish (Argentine) | xa |
| et | Estonian |  |
| fr | French |  |
| fi | Finnish |  |
| he | Hebrew |  |
| hi | Hindi |  |
| hr | Croatian |  |
| hu | Hungarian |  |
| id | Indonesian |  |
| is | Icelandic |  |
| it | Italian |  |
| ja | Japanese |  |
| km | Khmer |  |
| ko | Korean |  |
| lo | Lao |  |
| lt | Lithuanian |  |
| lv | Latvian |  |
| ms | Malay |  |
| nl | Dutch |  |
| no | Norwegian |  |
| pl | Polish |  |
| pt-br | Portuguese (Brazilian) | xb |
| pt-pt | Portuguese | pt |
| ro | Romanian |  |
| ru | Russian |  |
| sk | Slovak |  |
| sl | Slovenian |  |
| sr | Serbian |  |
| sv | Swedish |  |
| tl | Tagalog |  |
| th | Thai |  |
| tr | Turkish |  |
| uk | Ukrainian |  |
| vi | Vietnamese |  |
| yu | Cantonese |  |
| zh-cn | Chinese (Simplified) | zh |
| zh-tw | Chinese (Traditional) | xt |


## Additional codes for spoken languages

| Booking.com code | Language |
|  --- | --- |
| br | Berber |
| cm | Mandarin |
| cn | Montenegrin |
| gn | Guarani |
| jv | Javanese |
| yu | Cantonese |