YouTube Transcript Languages
The lang parameter value designates the desired language for video transcripts.
By specifying a particular language code in the YouTube Transcripts API requests, it ensures you obtain transcriptions in the intended language of your choice.
Keep in mind that not all desired languages may be transcribed.
You can download the full JSON list of supported YouTube Transcripts Languages:
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The following values are valid for the lang search parameter.
| Language Code | Language |
|---|---|
af
|
Afrikaans |
ak
|
Akan |
sq
|
Albanian |
am
|
Amharic |
ar
|
Arabic |
hy
|
Armenian |
as
|
Assamese |
ay
|
Aymara |
az
|
Azerbaijani |
bn
|
Bangla |
eu
|
Basque |
be
|
Belarusian |
bho
|
Bhojpuri |
bs
|
Bosnian |
bg
|
Bulgarian |
my
|
Burmese |
ca
|
Catalan |
ceb
|
Cebuano |
zh
|
Chinese |
zh-HK
|
Chinese (Hong Kong) |
zh-CN
|
Chinese (China) |
zh-SG
|
Chinese (Singapore) |
zh-TW
|
Chinese (Taiwan) |
zh-Hans
|
Chinese (Simplified) |
zh-Hant
|
Chinese (Traditional) |
hak-TW
|
Hakka Chinese (Taiwan) |
nan-TW
|
Min Nan Chinese (Taiwan) |
co
|
Corsican |
hr
|
Croatian |
cs
|
Czech |
da
|
Danish |
dv
|
Divehi |
nl
|
Dutch |
en
|
English |
en-US
|
English (United States) |
eo
|
Esperanto |
et
|
Estonian |
ee
|
Ewe |
fil
|
Filipino |
fi
|
Finnish |
fr
|
French |
gl
|
Galician |
lg
|
Ganda |
ka
|
Georgian |
de
|
German |
el
|
Greek |
gn
|
Guarani |
gu
|
Gujarati |
ht
|
Haitian Creole |
ha
|
Hausa |
haw
|
Hawaiian |
iw
|
Hebrew |
hi
|
Hindi |
hmn
|
Hmong |
hu
|
Hungarian |
is
|
Icelandic |
ig
|
Igbo |
id
|
Indonesian |
ga
|
Irish |
it
|
Italian |
ja
|
Japanese |
jv
|
Javanese |
kn
|
Kannada |
kk
|
Kazakh |
km
|
Khmer |
rw
|
Kinyarwanda |
ko
|
Korean |
kri
|
Krio |
ku
|
Kurdish |
ky
|
Kyrgyz |
lo
|
Lao |
la
|
Latin |
lv
|
Latvian |
ln
|
Lingala |
lt
|
Lithuanian |
lb
|
Luxembourgish |
mk
|
Macedonian |
mg
|
Malagasy |
ms
|
Malay |
ml
|
Malayalam |
mt
|
Maltese |
mi
|
Māori |
mr
|
Marathi |
mn
|
Mongolian |
ne
|
Nepali |
nso
|
Northern Sotho |
no
|
Norwegian |
ny
|
Nyanja |
or
|
Odia |
om
|
Oromo |
ps
|
Pashto |
fa
|
Persian |
pl
|
Polish |
pt
|
Portuguese |
pa
|
Punjabi |
qu
|
Quechua |
ro
|
Romanian |
ru
|
Russian |
sm
|
Samoan |
sa
|
Sanskrit |
gd
|
Scottish Gaelic |
sr
|
Serbian |
sn
|
Shona |
sd
|
Sindhi |
si
|
Sinhala |
sk
|
Slovak |
sl
|
Slovenian |
so
|
Somali |
st
|
Southern Sotho |
es
|
Spanish |
su
|
Sundanese |
sw
|
Swahili |
sv
|
Swedish |
tg
|
Tajik |
ta
|
Tamil |
tt
|
Tatar |
te
|
Telugu |
th
|
Thai |
ti
|
Tigrinya |
ts
|
Tsonga |
tr
|
Turkish |
tk
|
Turkmen |
uk
|
Ukrainian |
ur
|
Urdu |
ug
|
Uyghur |
uz
|
Uzbek |
vi
|
Vietnamese |
cy
|
Welsh |
fy
|
Western Frisian |
xh
|
Xhosa |
yi
|
Yiddish |
yo
|
Yoruba |
zu
|
Zulu |