Google LR Parameter Languages

The lr parameter allows restricing search results to documents that are written in particular language.

Google determines the language of a document by analyzing:

  • the top-level domain (TLD) of the document's URL.
  • language meta tags within the document.
  • the primary language used in the body text of the document.
  • secondary languages, if any, used in the body text of the document.

You can download the full JSON list of supported Google lr Languages:
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The following values are valid for the lr search parameter.

Parameter Value Language
lang_ar Arabic
lang_hy Armenian
lang_bg Bulgarian
lang_ca Catalan
lang_cs Czech
lang_da Danish
lang_de German
lang_el Greek
lang_en English
lang_es Spanish
lang_et Estonian
lang_tl Filipino
lang_fi Finnish
lang_fr French
lang_hr Croatian
lang_hi Hindi
lang_hu Hungarian
lang_id Indonesian
lang_is Icelandic
lang_it Italian
lang_iw Hebrew
lang_ja Japanese
lang_ko Korean
lang_lt Lithuanian
lang_lv Latvian
lang_nl Dutch
lang_no Norwegian
lang_fa Persian
lang_pl Polish
lang_pt Portuguese
lang_ro Romanian
lang_ru Russian
lang_sk Slovak
lang_sl Slovenian
lang_sr Serbian
lang_sv Swedish
lang_th Thai
lang_tr Turkish
lang_uk Ukrainian
lang_vi Vietnamese
lang_zh-CN Chinese (Simplified)
lang_zh-TW Chinese (Traditional)