Title: How I get the language code
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# How I get the language code

 *  [ppeter18](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ppeter18/)
 * (@ppeter18)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-i-get-the-language-code/)
 * Hi Dennis,
    How I get the language abbreviation? My website is [http://www.my-site.com/](http://www.my-site.com/)(
   for german) [http://www.my-site.com/it/](http://www.my-site.com/it/) (for italian).
   [http://www.my-site.com/en/](http://www.my-site.com/en/) (for english).
 * Now I need a function in the footer.php, which give me back ‘it’ or ‘en’
 * Thank you very much!
    Peter
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-language-switcher/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-language-switcher/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Dennis Ploetner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realloc/)
 * (@realloc)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-i-get-the-language-code/#post-6164410)
 * Hi,
 *     ```
       $blog     = MslsBlogCollection::instance()->get_current_blog();
       $language = $blog->get_language(); // full language code
       $alpha2   = $blog->get_alpha2(); // short language code
       ```
   
 * Cheers,
    Dennis.

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