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## Resource: Properties

## Article: Properties

## Article Link: https://dev.wix.com/docs/sdk/site-sdk/site-settings/locale/properties.md

## Article Content:

import { Property, PropertyList, ExpandableSection, RequestResponseExamples } from "@wix/docs-ui/content";

{/* Generated by @wix/tw-typedoc-to-wix-docs from packages/site-service-locale/src/definition/index.ts. Do not edit this file directly — edit the TSDoc in the source package. */}

# Locale Properties

## direction

**Type:** `LanguageDirection` (read-only)

Text direction of the site's language.

<ExpandableSection name="Enum Values">
  <PropertyList>
    <Property name="'ltr'">
      Left to right.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'rtl'">
      Right to left.
    </Property>
  </PropertyList>
</ExpandableSection>

### Example

```json
"ltr"
```

---

## language

**Type:** `Language` (read-only)

Site's main language, as a 2-letter [ISO 639-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes) code.

On a site with [Wix Multilingual](https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-multilingual-an-overview),
this is the main language, even when a site visitor views the site in another language.

The code has no region, so formatting dates and numbers with it alone loses regional conventions.
Use `locale` for formatting.

One value isn't an ISO 639-1 code: `jp`, a legacy code for Japanese. `Intl` expects `ja`.

<ExpandableSection name="Enum Values">
  <PropertyList>
    <Property name="'fa'">
      Persian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'fo'">
      Faroese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ps'">
      Pashto.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sq'">
      Albanian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'hy'">
      Armenian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'bn'">
      Bengali.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'be'">
      Belarusian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'yo'">
      Yoruba.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'bs'">
      Bosnian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'pt'">
      Portuguese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'bg'">
      Bulgarian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'km'">
      Khmer.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'zh'">
      Chinese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'hr'">
      Croatian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'da'">
      Danish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'et'">
      Estonian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'fj'">
      Fijian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'fi'">
      Finnish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'fr'">
      French.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'de'">
      German.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'el'">
      Greek.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ht'">
      Haitian Creole.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'hu'">
      Hungarian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'is'">
      Icelandic.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'gu'">
      Gujarati.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'hi'">
      Hindi.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'kl'">
      Kalaallisut.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'kn'">
      Kannada.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ml'">
      Malayalam.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sd'">
      Sindhi.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ta'">
      Tamil.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'te'">
      Telugu.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'id'">
      Indonesian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'su'">
      Sundanese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ku'">
      Kurdish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ga'">
      Irish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'gl'">
      Galician.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'he'">
      Hebrew.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'yi'">
      Yiddish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'co'">
      Corsican.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'it'">
      Italian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'la'">
      Latin.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'lb'">
      Luxembourgish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ja'">
      Japanese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'jp'">
      Japanese, as a legacy code. The ISO 639-1 code is `ja`.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'kk'">
      Kazakh.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sw'">
      Swahili.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ln'">
      Lingala.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'lo'">
      Lao.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'lv'">
      Latvian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'lt'">
      Lithuanian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'mi'">
      Maori.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'mk'">
      Macedonian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'mg'">
      Malagasy.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'mr'">
      Marathi.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ms'">
      Malay.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'mt'">
      Maltese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'my'">
      Burmese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'mn'">
      Mongolian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ne'">
      Nepali.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ha'">
      Hausa.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ig'">
      Igbo.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'no'">
      Norwegian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'tl'">
      Tagalog.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'pl'">
      Polish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ro'">
      Romanian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ru'">
      Russian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'se'">
      Northern Sami.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sm'">
      Samoan.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sr'">
      Serbian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sk'">
      Slovak.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'si'">
      Sinhala.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sl'">
      Slovenian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'so'">
      Somali.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'af'">
      Afrikaans.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'xh'">
      Xhosa.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'zu'">
      Zulu.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ko'">
      Korean.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'eu'">
      Basque.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ca'">
      Catalan.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'es'">
      Spanish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sv'">
      Swedish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'tg'">
      Tajik.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'th'">
      Thai.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'tr'">
      Turkish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ug'">
      Uyghur.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'uk'">
      Ukrainian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'cy'">
      Welsh.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'en'">
      English.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'uz'">
      Uzbek.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'vi'">
      Vietnamese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ny'">
      Chichewa.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sn'">
      Shona.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'az'">
      Azerbaijani.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'cs'">
      Czech.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'am'">
      Amharic.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ka'">
      Georgian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ky'">
      Kyrgyz.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'nl'">
      Dutch.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ur'">
      Urdu.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ar'">
      Arabic.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'qu'">
      Quechua.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'tk'">
      Turkmen.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'aa'">
      Afar.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ab'">
      Abkhazian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ae'">
      Avestan.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ak'">
      Akan.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'an'">
      Aragonese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'as'">
      Assamese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'av'">
      Avaric.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ay'">
      Aymara.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ba'">
      Bashkir.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'bh'">
      Bihari.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'bi'">
      Bislama.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'bm'">
      Bambara.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'bo'">
      Tibetan.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'br'">
      Breton.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ce'">
      Chechen.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ch'">
      Chamorro.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'cr'">
      Cree.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'cu'">
      Church Slavonic.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'cv'">
      Chuvash.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'dv'">
      Divehi.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'dz'">
      Dzongkha.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ee'">
      Ewe.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'eo'">
      Esperanto.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ff'">
      Fula.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'fy'">
      Western Frisian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'gd'">
      Scottish Gaelic.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'gn'">
      Guarani.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'gv'">
      Manx.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ho'">
      Hiri Motu.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'hz'">
      Herero.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ia'">
      Interlingua.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ie'">
      Interlingue.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ii'">
      Sichuan Yi.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ik'">
      Inupiaq.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'io'">
      Ido.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'iu'">
      Inuktitut.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'jv'">
      Javanese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ki'">
      Kikuyu.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'kr'">
      Kanuri.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ks'">
      Kashmiri.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'kw'">
      Cornish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'lg'">
      Ganda.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'li'">
      Limburgish.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'lu'">
      Luba-Katanga.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'mh'">
      Marshallese.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'na'">
      Nauru.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'nb'">
      Norwegian Bokmål.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'nd'">
      North Ndebele.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ng'">
      Ndonga.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'nn'">
      Norwegian Nynorsk.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'nr'">
      South Ndebele.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'nv'">
      Navajo.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'oc'">
      Occitan.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'oj'">
      Ojibwe.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'om'">
      Oromo.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'or'">
      Odia.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'os'">
      Ossetian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'pa'">
      Punjabi.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'pi'">
      Pali.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'rm'">
      Romansh.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'rn'">
      Kirundi.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'rw'">
      Kinyarwanda.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sa'">
      Sanskrit.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sc'">
      Sardinian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'sg'">
      Sango.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ss'">
      Swati.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'st'">
      Southern Sotho.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ti'">
      Tigrinya.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'tn'">
      Tswana.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'to'">
      Tongan.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ts'">
      Tsonga.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'tt'">
      Tatar.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'tw'">
      Twi.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ty'">
      Tahitian.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'ve'">
      Venda.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'vo'">
      Volapük.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'wa'">
      Walloon.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'wo'">
      Wolof.
    </Property>
    <Property name="'za'">
      Zhuang.
    </Property>
  </PropertyList>
</ExpandableSection>

### Example

```json
"en"
```

---

## locale

**Type:** `string` (read-only)

Site's regional format, as a [BCP 47 language tag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag).

It's the site's setting, not the site visitor's browser language. Specify it as the locale for
`Intl` date and number formatting, so dates and numbers follow the site's conventions for every
site visitor.

### Example

```json
"en-US"
```

---

## timeZone

**Type:** `string` (read-only)

Site's time zone, as an [IANA time zone name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones).

It's the time zone set for the site's business, not the site visitor's time zone. Specify it as
the `timeZone` option of `Intl.DateTimeFormat` to show times in the site's time zone.

### Example

```json
"America/New_York"
```