The display language in Windows 11, 10, ... is the display language you have selected, the default language is used by all Windows settings, file explorer, ...!1.) ... How to display a list of currently installed language packs!
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2.) Change the language with PowerShell!
Here is an example to switch to German, en-US, logging off and logging on to the Windows computer is required!
In example, for English UK use en-GB!
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PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-WinSystemLocale en-US
PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-WinUserLanguageList en-US -Force
PS C:\Windows\system32>
3.) ... What should be considered when changing the language!
The language abbreviations / tags are used, the language must have been installed beforehand in order to use them. Here is a small list of available languages under Windows!
| language | Language abbreviation / day |
| Afrikaans (South Africa) | af-ZA |
| Albanian (Albania) | sq-AL |
| Amharic (Ethiopia) | am-ET |
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | ar-SA |
| Armenian (Armenia) | hy-AM |
| Assamese (India) | as in |
| Azerbaijan | az-Latn-AZ |
| Bangla (Bangladesh) | Billion BD |
| Basque (Basque) | I-ES |
| Belarussisch | be-BY |
| Bangla (India) | bn-IN |
| Bosnian (Latin) | bs-Latn-BA |
| Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | bg-BG |
| Catalan | ca-ES |
| Central Kurdish | ku-ARAB-IQ |
| Cherokee | chr-CHER-US |
| Chinese (Hong Kong SVR) | zh-TW |
| Chinese (PR China) | zh-CN |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-TW |
| Croatian (Croatia) | Std-HR |
| Czech (Czech Republic) | cs-CZ |
| Danish (Denmark) | da-DK |
| From | prs-AF |
| Dutch (Netherlands) | nl-NL |
| English (USA) | up to |
| English United Kingdom) | up to |
| Estonian (Estonia) | et-EE |
| Filipino | fil-PH |
| Finnish (Finland) | fi-FI |
| French (Canada) | fr-CA |
| French France) | fr-FR |
| Galician | gl-ES |
| Georgian (Georgia) | ka-GE |
| German Germany) | up to |
| Greek (Greece) | el-GR |
| Gujarati (India) | gu-IN |
| Hausa (Latin, Nigeria) | ha-Latn-NG |
| Hebrew (Israel) | er-IL |
| Hindi (India) | hello-IN |
| Hungarian (Hungary) | hu-HU |
| Icelandic (Iceland) | is-IS |
| Igbo (Nigeria) | ig-Language |
| Indonesian (Indonesia) | I did |
| Irish (Ireland) | ga-IE |
| isiXhosa (South Africa) | xh-ZA |
| isiZulu (South Africa) | to-ZA |
| Italian (Italy) | it it |
| Japanese (Japan) | i-JP |
| Kannada (India) | kn-IN |
| Kazakh (Kazakhstan) | kk-KZ |
| Khmer (Cambodia) | km-KH |
| Kinyarwanda | rw-RW |
| Kiswahili (Kenya) | sw-KE |
| Konkani (India) | cook |
| Korean (Korea) | ko-KR |
| Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) | ky-KG |
| Laos (Laos) | it-LA |
| Latvian (Latvia) | lv-LV |
| Lithuanian (Lithuania) | lt-LT |
| Luxembourgish (Luxembourg) | lb-LU |
| Macedonian (FYROM) | mk-MK |
| Malay (Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore) | ms-MY |
| Malayalam (India) | ml-IN |
| Maltese (Malta) | mt-MT |
| Maori (New Zealand) | mi-NZ |
| Marathi (India) | Mistress |
| Mongolian (Cyrillic) | mn-MN |
| Nepali (Democratic Federal Republic of Nepal) | ne-NP |
| Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway) | nb-NO |
| Norwegian, Nynorsk (Norway) | nn-NO |
| Polish (Poland) | pl-PL |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-BR |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | pt-PT |
| Punjabi (India) | pains |
| Punjabi (Arabic) | pa-Arabic-PK |
| Quechua (Peru) | quz-PE |
| Romanian (Romania) | ro-RO |
| Russian (Russia) | ru-RU |
| Scottish Gaelic | gd-GB |
| Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) | sr-Cyrl-BA |
| Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia) | sr-Cyrl-RS |
| Serbian (Latin, Serbia) | sr-Latn-RS |
| Serbian (Latin, Serbia) | sr-Latn-RS |
| Sesotho sa Leboa (South Africa) | nso-ZA |
| Setswana (South Africa) | tn-ZA |
| Sindhi (Arabic) | sd-arabic-PK |
| Sinhala (Sri Lanka) | silk |
| Slovak (Slovakia) | sk-SK |
| Slovenian (Slovenia) | sl-SI |
| Spanish (Mexico) | es-MX |
| Spanish (Spain) | it-IT |
| Swedish (Sweden) | sv-SE |
| Tajik (Cyrillic) | tg-Cyrl-TJ |
| Tamil (India) | of the IN |
| Tatar (Russia) | tt-RU |
| Telugu (India) | te-IN |
| Thai (Thailand) | Do-TH |
| Tigrinya | ti-ET |
| Turkish (Turkey) | p-CHILD |
| Turkmen | tk-TM |
| Urdu | ur-PK |
| Ukrainian (Ukraine) | UK UA |
| Uighurs | and-CN |
| Uzbek (Latin) | uz-Latn-UZ |
| Vietnamese | en-VN |
| Welsh (UK) | cy-GB |
| Wolof | where-SN |
| Yoruba (Nigeria) | yo-NG |
FAQ 1: Updated on: 29 September 2021 10:55
