Get Language display name

Question

In JavaScript I can get user language code using

var code = window.navigator.userLanguage || winodw.navigator.language; //en-US, fr

How can I get language display name using this codes. An API would be a preferred option, not static list maintaining all possible codes

What do you mean by _language display name_ You want to map _en_ to _English_? — mplungjan, Oct 07 '16 at 06:42
yes, when en-US, I want English. and when fr I want French. possible with API? — user987316, Oct 07 '16 at 06:45

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

You can checkout the below projects in GitHub,

language-tags - https://github.com/mattcg/language-tags

For the underlying JSON data which the above project consumes you can checkout the below project,

language-subtag-registry - https://github.com/mattcg/language-subtag-registry

Just in case, if you don't prefer to use the above libraries and you want to have a predefined list of language code/names (on which you can manipulate) you can checkout the below post,

List of Language Codes in YAML or JSON?

Hope this helps!

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '16 at 06:46

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You don't have a direct solution I guess. You can use the following ISO Language code files (JSON,CSV) and read from it.

ISO Language Code files

answered Oct 07 '16 at 06:46

Keppy

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