html-lang-primary-subtags

TypeScript union type for primary language subtags (ISO-639 / IANA) compatible with the HTML lang="" attribute.

This package provides a strictly typed union of all registered primary language subtags, without regions, scripts, variants, or extensions.

Useful for:

• typing HTML lang attribute safely
• typing multilingual function params
• autocomplete of valid language codes
• avoiding invalid language identifiers at compile time

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Install

npm install html-lang-primary-subtags

Use

import type { PrimaryLanguageSubtag } from "html-lang-primary-subtags";

const lang: PrimaryLanguageSubtag = "en"; // ok
// const invalid: PrimaryLanguageSubtag = "en-US"; // compile-time error

PrimaryLanguageSubtag is a union of all registered primary language subtags (ISO-639) suitable for the HTML lang attribute without region/script/variant extensions.

Types

• PrimaryLanguageSubtag – primary language subtags (ISO-639-1)
• RegionSubtag – uppercase region codes (ISO-3166-1 alpha-2)
• Bcp47Locale – ${PrimaryLanguageSubtag}-${RegionSubtag} for HTML lang (BCP-47)
• OgLocale – ${PrimaryLanguageSubtag}_${RegionSubtag} for Open Graph tags

Examples

import type {
  PrimaryLanguageSubtag,
  RegionSubtag,
  Bcp47Locale,
  OgLocale,
} from "html-lang-primary-subtags";

const lang: PrimaryLanguageSubtag = "en";
const region: RegionSubtag = "US";
const bcp47: Bcp47Locale = "en-US";
const ogLocale: OgLocale = "en_US";

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.