title: List of all available languages for Windows .NET framework
body: <p>I've been searching for the answer over the net, but I don't seem to be able to find a comprehensive list of all languages available for my app with their exact display name. (I find many lists, but none of them seem to match the language strings I have. Read on.) The closest one I found is <a href="http://blog.muhimbi.com/2009/04/sharepoint-supported-languages-culture.html" rel="noreferrer">this one,</a> but is not complete. </p>
  
  <p>I am coding a plugin in C# where the text is exported from SDL Trados Studio to Word and the language is set accordingly in Word.</p>
  
  <p>I need to write a custom method that casts these language names to their relevant <code>Word.Language</code> equivalent. This is because Trados (using the Windows cultures and .NET framework 4.5) has different language (locale) names than the <code>Word.Language</code> names. </p>
  
  <p>While <strong>Hungarian</strong> is the same, <strong>TraditionalChinese</strong> (<code>Word.Language</code>) is <strong>Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)</strong> in Trados.</p>
  
  <p>I do have a comprehensive list for <code>Word.Languages</code> already:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-cs prettyprint-override"><code>public static class LanguageList
  {
      public static readonly HashSet&lt;LanguageItem&gt; _languageList = new HashSet&lt;LanguageItem&gt;(new[]
      {
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Saudi Arabia)", 1025),
          new LanguageItem("Bulgarian", 1026),
          new LanguageItem("Catalan", 1027),
          new LanguageItem("Chinese (Taiwan)", 1028),
          new LanguageItem("Czech", 1029),
          new LanguageItem("Danish", 1030),
          new LanguageItem("German (Germany)", 1031),
          new LanguageItem("Greek", 1032),
          new LanguageItem("English (U.S.)", 1033),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Spain-Traditional Sort)", 1034),
          new LanguageItem("Finnish", 1035),
          new LanguageItem("French (France)", 1036),
          new LanguageItem("Hebrew", 1037),
          new LanguageItem("Hungarian", 1038),
          new LanguageItem("Icelandic", 1039),
          new LanguageItem("Italian (Italy)", 1040),
          new LanguageItem("Japanese", 1041),
          new LanguageItem("Korean", 1042),
          new LanguageItem("Dutch (Netherlands)", 1043),
          new LanguageItem("Norwegian (Bokmål)", 1044),
          new LanguageItem("Polish", 1045),
          new LanguageItem("Portuguese (Brazil)", 1046),
          new LanguageItem("Rhaeto-Romanic", 1047),
          new LanguageItem("Romanian (Romania)", 1048),
          new LanguageItem("Russian (Russia)", 1049),
          new LanguageItem("Croatian", 1050),
          new LanguageItem("Slovak", 1051),
          new LanguageItem("Albanian", 1052),
          new LanguageItem("Swedish (Sweden)", 1053),
          new LanguageItem("Thai", 1054),
          new LanguageItem("Turkish", 1055),
          new LanguageItem("Urdu", 1056),
          new LanguageItem("Indonesian", 1057),
          new LanguageItem("Ukrainian", 1058),
          new LanguageItem("Belarusian", 1059),
          new LanguageItem("Slovenian", 1060),
          new LanguageItem("Estonian", 1061),
          new LanguageItem("Latvian", 1062),
          new LanguageItem("Lithuanian", 1063),
          new LanguageItem("Tajik", 1064),
          new LanguageItem("Farsi", 1065),
          new LanguageItem("Vietnamese", 1066),
          new LanguageItem("Armenian", 1067),
          new LanguageItem("Azeri (Latin)", 1068),
          new LanguageItem("Basque", 1069),
          new LanguageItem("Sorbian", 1070),
          new LanguageItem("FYRO Macedonian", 1071),
          new LanguageItem("Sutu", 1072),
          new LanguageItem("Tsonga", 1073),
          new LanguageItem("Tswana", 1074),
          new LanguageItem("Venda", 1075),
          new LanguageItem("Xhosa", 1076),
          new LanguageItem("Zulu", 1077),
          new LanguageItem("Afrikaans", 1078),
          new LanguageItem("Georgian", 1079),
          new LanguageItem("Faeroese", 1080),
          new LanguageItem("Hindi", 1081),
          new LanguageItem("Maltese", 1082),
          new LanguageItem("Sami (Lappish)", 1083),
          new LanguageItem("Gaelic (Scotland)", 1084),
          new LanguageItem("Yiddish", 1085),
          new LanguageItem("Malay", 1086),
          new LanguageItem("Kazakh", 1087),
          new LanguageItem("Kyrgyz", 1088),
          new LanguageItem("Swahili", 1089),
          new LanguageItem("Turkmen", 1090),
          new LanguageItem("Uzbek (Latin)", 1091),
          new LanguageItem("Tatar", 1092),
          new LanguageItem("Bengali", 1093),
          new LanguageItem("Punjabi", 1094),
          new LanguageItem("Gujarati", 1095),
          new LanguageItem("Oriya", 1096),
          new LanguageItem("Tamil", 1097),
          new LanguageItem("Telugu", 1098),
          new LanguageItem("Kannada", 1099),
          new LanguageItem("Malayalam", 1100),
          new LanguageItem("Assamese", 1101),
          new LanguageItem("Marathi", 1102),
          new LanguageItem("Sanskrit", 1103),
          new LanguageItem("Mongolian", 1104),
          new LanguageItem("Tibetan (PRC)", 1105),
          new LanguageItem("Welsh", 1106),
          new LanguageItem("Khmer", 1107),
          new LanguageItem("Lao", 1108),
          new LanguageItem("Burmese", 1109),
          new LanguageItem("Galician", 1110),
          new LanguageItem("Konkani", 1111),
          new LanguageItem("Manipuri", 1112),
          new LanguageItem("Sindhi (Devanagari)", 1113),
          new LanguageItem("Syriac", 1114),
          new LanguageItem("Sinhalese", 1115),
          new LanguageItem("Cherokee", 1116),
          new LanguageItem("Inuktitut", 1117),
          new LanguageItem("Amharic", 1118),
          new LanguageItem("Tamazight", 1119),
          new LanguageItem("Kashmiri (Arabic)", 1120),
          new LanguageItem("Nepali", 1121),
          new LanguageItem("Frisian (Netherlands)", 1122),
          new LanguageItem("Pashto", 1123),
          new LanguageItem("Filipino", 1124),
          new LanguageItem("Divehi", 1125),
          new LanguageItem("Edo", 1126),
          new LanguageItem("Fulfulde", 1127),
          new LanguageItem("Hausa", 1128),
          new LanguageItem("Ibibio", 1129),
          new LanguageItem("Yoruba", 1130),
          new LanguageItem("Quechua (Bolivia)", 1131),
          new LanguageItem("Sepedi", 1132),
          new LanguageItem("Bashkir (Russia)", 1133),
          new LanguageItem("Luxembourgish (Luxembourg)", 1134),
          new LanguageItem("Greenlandic (Greenland)", 1135),
          new LanguageItem("Igbo", 1136),
          new LanguageItem("Kanuri", 1137),
          new LanguageItem("Oromo", 1138),
          new LanguageItem("Tigrigna (Ethiopia)", 1139),
          new LanguageItem("Guarani", 1140),
          new LanguageItem("Hawaiian", 1141),
          new LanguageItem("Latin", 1142),
          new LanguageItem("Somali", 1143),
          new LanguageItem("Yi", 1144),
          new LanguageItem("Papiamentu", 1145),
          new LanguageItem("Mapudungun (Chile)", 1146),
          new LanguageItem("Mohawk (Mohawk)", 1148),
          new LanguageItem("Breton (France)", 1150),
          new LanguageItem("Uyghur (PRC)", 1152),
          new LanguageItem("Maori", 1153),
          new LanguageItem("Occitan (France)", 1154),
          new LanguageItem("Corsican (France)", 1155),
          new LanguageItem("Alsatian (France)", 1156),
          new LanguageItem("Yakut (Russia)", 1157),
          new LanguageItem("K'iche (Guatemala)", 1158),
          new LanguageItem("Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)", 1159),
          new LanguageItem("Wolof (Senegal)", 1160),
          new LanguageItem("Dari (Afghanistan)", 1164),
          new LanguageItem("Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom)", 1169),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Iraq)", 2049),
          new LanguageItem("Chinese (PRC)", 2052),
          new LanguageItem("German (Switzerland)", 2055),
          new LanguageItem("English (U.K.)", 2057),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Mexico)", 2058),
          new LanguageItem("French (Belgium)", 2060),
          new LanguageItem("Italian (Switzerland)", 2064),
          new LanguageItem("Dutch (Belgium)", 2067),
          new LanguageItem("Norwegian (Nynorsk)", 2068),
          new LanguageItem("Portuguese (Portugal)", 2070),
          new LanguageItem("Romanian (Moldova)", 2072),
          new LanguageItem("Russian (Moldova)", 2073),
          new LanguageItem("Serbian (Latin)", 2074),
          new LanguageItem("Swedish (Finland)", 2077),
          new LanguageItem("Azeri (Cyrillic)", 2092),
          new LanguageItem("Lower Sorbian (Germany)", 2094),
          new LanguageItem("Sami, Northern (Sweden)", 2107),
          new LanguageItem("Gaelic (Ireland)", 2108),
          new LanguageItem("Malay (Brunei Darussalam)", 2110),
          new LanguageItem("Uzbek (Cyrillic)", 2115),
          new LanguageItem("Bengali (Bangladesh)", 2117),
          new LanguageItem("Punjabi (Pakistan)", 2118),
          new LanguageItem("Mongolian (Mongolian)", 2128),
          new LanguageItem("Tibetan (Bhutan)", 2129),
          new LanguageItem("Sindhi (Arabic)", 2137),
          new LanguageItem("Inuktitut (Latin, Canada)", 2141),
          new LanguageItem("Tamazight (Latin)", 2143),
          new LanguageItem("Kashmiri", 2144),
          new LanguageItem("Nepali (India)", 2145),
          new LanguageItem("Quechua (Ecuador)", 2155),
          new LanguageItem("Tigrigna (Eritrea)", 2163),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Egypt)", 3073),
          new LanguageItem("Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)", 3076),
          new LanguageItem("German (Austria)", 3079),
          new LanguageItem("English (Australia)", 3081),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Spain-Modern Sort)", 3082),
          new LanguageItem("French (Canada)", 3084),
          new LanguageItem("Serbian (Cyrillic)", 3098),
          new LanguageItem("Sami, Northern (Finland)", 3131),
          new LanguageItem("Quechua (Peru)", 3179),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Libya)", 4097),
          new LanguageItem("Chinese (Singapore)", 4100),
          new LanguageItem("German (Luxembourg)", 4103),
          new LanguageItem("English (Canada)", 4105),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Guatemala)", 4106),
          new LanguageItem("French (Switzerland)", 4108),
          new LanguageItem("Croatian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)", 4122),
          new LanguageItem("Sami, Lule (Norway)", 4155),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Algeria)", 5121),
          new LanguageItem("Chinese (Macao S.A.R.)", 5124),
          new LanguageItem("German (Liechtenstein)", 5127),
          new LanguageItem("English (New Zealand)", 5129),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Costa Rica)", 5130),
          new LanguageItem("French (Luxembourg)", 5132),
          new LanguageItem("Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)", 5146),
          new LanguageItem("Sami, Lule (Sweden)", 5179),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Morocco)", 6145),
          new LanguageItem("English (Ireland)", 6153),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Panama)", 6154),
          new LanguageItem("French (Monaco)", 6156),
          new LanguageItem("Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)", 6170),
          new LanguageItem("Sami, Southern (Norway)", 6203),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Tunisia)", 7169),
          new LanguageItem("English (South Africa)", 7177),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Dominican Republic)", 7178),
          new LanguageItem("French (West Indies)", 7180),
          new LanguageItem("Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)", 7194),
          new LanguageItem("Sami, Southern (Sweden)", 7227),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Oman)", 8193),
          new LanguageItem("English (Jamaica)", 8201),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Venezuela)", 8202),
          new LanguageItem("French (Reunion)", 8204),
          new LanguageItem("Bosnian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)", 8218),
          new LanguageItem("Sami, Skolt (Finland)", 8251),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Yemen)", 9217),
          new LanguageItem("English (Caribbean)", 9225),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Colombia)", 9226),
          new LanguageItem("French (Congo (DRC))", 9228),
          new LanguageItem("Serbian (Latin, Serbia)", 9242),
          new LanguageItem("Sami, Inari (Finland)", 9275),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Syria)", 10241),
          new LanguageItem("English (Belize)", 10249),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Peru)", 10250),
          new LanguageItem("French (Senegal)", 10252),
          new LanguageItem("Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia)", 10266),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Jordan)", 11265),
          new LanguageItem("English (Trinidad and Tobago)", 11273),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Argentina)", 11274),
          new LanguageItem("French (Cameroon)", 11276),
          new LanguageItem("Serbian (Latin, Montenegro)", 11290),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Lebanon)", 12289),
          new LanguageItem("English (Zimbabwe)", 12297),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Ecuador)", 12298),
          new LanguageItem("French (Cote d'Ivoire)", 12300),
          new LanguageItem("Serbian (Cyrillic, Montenegro)", 12314),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Kuwait)", 13313),
          new LanguageItem("English (Philippines)", 13321),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Chile)", 13322),
          new LanguageItem("French (Mali)", 13324),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (U.A.E)", 14337),
          new LanguageItem("English (Indonesia)", 14345),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Uruguay)", 14346),
          new LanguageItem("French (Morocco)", 14348),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Bahrain)", 15361),
          new LanguageItem("English (Hong Kong S.A.R.)", 15369),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Paraguay)", 15370),
          new LanguageItem("French (Haiti)", 15372),
          new LanguageItem("Arabic (Qatar)", 16385),
          new LanguageItem("English (India)", 16393),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Bolivia)", 16394),
          new LanguageItem("English (Malaysia)", 17417),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (El Salvador)", 17418),
          new LanguageItem("English (Singapore)", 18441),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Honduras)", 18442),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Nicaragua)", 19466),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (Puerto Rico)", 20490),
          new LanguageItem("Spanish (United States)", 21514),
      });
  
      public static LanguageItem GetLanguageItem(string languageName)
      {
          return _languageList.SingleOrDefault(li =&gt; li.Name.Equals(languageName));
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to find a comprehensive list of the locales used in the Windows cultures. The key point is that <strong>zh-TW</strong> needs to be <strong>Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)</strong> and not something else. I did not manage to find such a list despite extensive searching already.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>To clarify, my question is, how to retrieve the the exact list in my code? I believe it is should be somewhere in the Windows cultures, such as <code>CultureInfo.DisplayName</code> or similar. Any idea?</p></li>
  <li><p>What is the most effective method then to cast them over to the <code>Word.LanguageID</code>?</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong>
  See answer posted below for my solution to these questions. Still would appreciate any other suggestions.</p>