Title: get_available_languages
Published: December 7, 2016
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘get_available_languages’, string[] $languages, string $dir )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_available_languages/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_available_languages/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_available_languages/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_available_languages/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters the list of available language codes.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_available_languages/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$languages`string[]

An array of available language codes.

`$dir`string

The directory where the language files were found.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_available_languages/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    return apply_filters( 'get_available_languages', array_unique( $languages ), $dir );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/l10n.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/l10n.php#L1580)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/l10n.php#L1580-L1580)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_available_languages/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [get_available_languages()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_available_languages/)`wp-includes/l10n.php` |

Gets all available languages based on the presence of *.mo and *.l10n.php files in a given directory.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_available_languages/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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