Title: Change Language code
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Change Language code

 *  Resolved [matthewSK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matthewsk/)
 * (@matthewsk)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-code/)
 * Hi,
    I’m using language switcher widget with **Language code** option in **Link
   text** settings of the widget. But at the page is displayed en_US or sk_SK. Is
   there any way to change Language codes from en_US to just simply EN and sk_SK
   to SK? Thanks in advance.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/multilingual-press/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/multilingual-press/)

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 *  [Franz Josef Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f-j-kaiser/)
 * (@f-j-kaiser)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-language-code/#post-5250682)
 * Those are the official bibliographical language codes, defined in the [ISO 639 1 & 2](https://github.com/ISO639).
   You should **not** change those values.

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