How to retrieve blog language without any region (locale) attached?

reno_rita

How can you retrieve the language of a WordPress website, without the added region suffix attached to it? In other words, just get the language, without the entire locale. E.g. <html lang="en"> instead of <html lang="en-US"> I saw a related question but it doesn't provide the exact solution, both of these are same: <html <?php language_attributes();?>> <html lang="<?php bloginfo("language"); ?>"> The reason I'm wondering this is for theming...

Originally asked by Jesse Nickles on Stack Exchange (wordpress) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I'm posting this at the request of one of our Discord users, who doesn't use WPSE: Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange is kind of a bizarre place. Why is that question voted "-2"? The question is basically asking more or less the same thing that multiple WordPress tickets are asking for: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48152 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50183 Also the W3C itself seems to recommend the same thing (avoiding the region in most cases): https://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/ https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-choosing-language-tags But somehow the question offended the WordPress techbros, so it got voted -2 To answer the question:...

Full answer by Jesse Nickles: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/420257 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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