🌍 Languages JSON Dataset

A clean, lightweight, and developer-friendly JSON dataset containing a curated list of world languages with their standardized language codes.

This repository is designed to be simple, reusable, and framework-agnostic, making it ideal for applications that need language selection, localization, translation, or internationalization support.

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📦 Contents

• languages.json – A JSON array of language objects with:
  • name – Human-readable language name
  • code – Standard language code (commonly used in APIs and i18n libraries)

Example

{
  "name": "English",
  "code": "en"
}

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✨ Features

• ✅ 100+ commonly used global languages
• ✅ Clean and consistent JSON structure
• ✅ Ready to use in frontend & backend projects
• ✅ Suitable for dropdowns, filters, and localization settings
• ✅ Easy to extend and maintain

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🚀 Use Cases

This dataset can be used in:

• 🌐 Internationalization (i18n) & localization
• 📝 Language selector dropdowns
• 🤖 Translation & AI applications
• 📱 Mobile and web apps
• 🧩 Configuration files
• 🔌 API integrations (Google Translate, OpenAI, etc.)

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🌐 Public API / Raw JSON Access

This repository can be used as a public read-only API by accessing the raw JSON file hosted on GitHub.

🔗 Raw JSON URL

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ameerzain/languages/main/languages.json

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📌 Usage Examples

JavaScript (Fetch API)

fetch('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ameerzain/languages/main/languages.json')
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data));

Python

import requests

url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ameerzain/languages/main/languages.json"
languages = requests.get(url).json()

print(languages)

HTML (Dropdown Example)

<select>
  <option value="en">English</option>
  <option value="fr">French</option>
</select>

ℹ️ Note:
This dataset is served via GitHub Raw and is suitable for light to medium usage.
For high-traffic production environments, consider caching or self-hosting the file.

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📊 Data Format

[
  {
    "name": "English",
    "code": "en"
  },
  {
    "name": "French",
    "code": "fr"
  }
]

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

You can:

• Add missing languages
• Improve naming consistency
• Add region-specific variants
• Fix incorrect codes

Please open a pull request or raise an issue for discussion.

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📄 License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.

You are free to use, modify, and distribute it in personal or commercial projects.

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👤 Author

Ameer Zain
GitHub: https://github.com/ameerzain

If you find this repository useful, consider giving it a ⭐ to support the project.

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Happy coding! 🚀