Install language in Windows 11 using PowerShell

We all know that you can install languages in Windows 11 using Settings app user interface. If you are looking forward to specifically install languages using Windows PowerShell, this guide is for you. In this article, you will read how to install language in Windows 11 using PowerShell new module introduced in Preview Build 22557.

According to Microsoft, “This new PowerShell Module allows users to easily add languages and related language features and manage settings like System Preferred UI Language, System Locale, Input method (Keyboard), Locale, Speech Recognizer, User Preferred Language List using the PowerShell prompt.”

Here’s how you can use the new PowerShell new module to install languages in Windows 11.

Install language in Windows 11 using PowerShell

Manual steps

For installing the language, you’ve to open administrative Windows PowerShell. For this you can press  + X keys and select Windows Terminal (Admin). Type following and press Enter key:

Install-Language

After this, you’ll be asked to enter the BCP47 tag of the language you want to install. You can refer below list for the language tag.

Language Tag	Description
ar-SA	Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
bn-BD	Bangla (Bangladesh)
bn-IN	Bangla (India)
cs-CZ	Czech (Czech Republic)
da-DK	Danish (Denmark)
de-AT	Austrian German
de-CH	“Swiss” German
de-DE	Standard German (as spoken in Germany)
el-GR	Modern Greek
en-AU	Australian English
en-CA	Canadian English
en-GB	British English
en-IE	Irish English
en-IN	Indian English
en-NZ	New Zealand English
en-US	US English
en-ZA	English (South Africa)
es-AR	Argentine Spanish
es-CL	Chilean Spanish
es-CO	Colombian Spanish
es-ES	Castilian Spanish (as spoken in Central-Northern Spain)
es-MX	Mexican Spanish
es-US	American Spanish
fi-FI	Finnish (Finland)
fr-BE	Belgian French
fr-CA	Canadian French
fr-CH	“Swiss” French
fr-FR	Standard French (especially in France)
he-IL	Hebrew (Israel)
hi-IN	Hindi (India)
hu-HU	Hungarian (Hungary)
id-ID	Indonesian (Indonesia)
it-CH	“Swiss” Italian
it-IT	Standard Italian (as spoken in Italy)
jp-JP	Japanese (Japan)
ko-KR	Korean (Republic of Korea)
nl-BE	Belgian Dutch
nl-NL	Standard Dutch (as spoken in The Netherlands)
no-NO	Norwegian (Norway)
pl-PL	Polish (Poland)
pt-BR	Brazilian Portuguese
pt-PT	European Portuguese (as written and spoken in Portugal)
ro-RO	Romanian (Romania)
ru-RU	Russian (Russian Federation)
sk-SK	Slovak (Slovakia)
sv-SE	Swedish (Sweden)
ta-IN	Indian Tamil
ta-LK	Sri Lankan Tamil
th-TH	Thai (Thailand)
tr-TR	Turkish (Turkey)
zh-CN	Mainland China, simplified characters
zh-HK	Hong Kong, traditional characters
zh-TW	Taiwan, traditional characters

Once you type language tag, press Enter key and you’ll see the progress and language is being installed. This may take a while.

Once done, you can see the details about language you just installed.

You can then log out and log in back to make changes effective.

Get a list of the installed languages on the device, which type of Language Pack is installed, and what Language Features are installed.

Other PowerShell commands

To get list of all install languages, try this command:

Get-InstalledLanguage

To set a language as the System Preferred UI Language, use following command:

Set-SystemPreferredUILanguage

You need to type language tag of the language you want to set a preferred language.

To get the value of the current System Preferred Language, execute following command:

Get-SystemPreferredUILanguage

To uninstall an installed language, you execute following command:

Uninstall-Language

Type the language tag of the language you want to uninstall and press Enter.

Video guide

You can also checkout this video to see live illustrations of above commands:

That’s it!

Related: How to change language for Widgets on Windows 11.