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IslamencIslamencIslamenc API

Languages

GET/languages

The 147 languages the platform knows, with their names and writing direction. Use isoCode wherever an endpoint takes lang.

Terminal window
curl "https://islamenc.com/api/languages"
[
  { "isoCode": "aa", "arabicName": "عفري", "englishName": "Afar", "nativeName": "Qafár af", "direction": "ltr" },
  { "isoCode": "ar", "arabicName": "عربي", "englishName": "Arabic", "nativeName": "العربية", "direction": "rtl" },
  { "isoCode": "bn", "arabicName": "بنغالي", "englishName": "Bengali", "nativeName": "বাংলা", "direction": "ltr" },
  { "isoCode": "prs", "arabicName": "دري", "englishName": "Dari", "nativeName": "دری", "direction": "rtl" }
]

Not every language has content of every kind. To know what exists:

Content Ask
A book’s translations GET /books/{projectId}/languages
Which cards exist in which language GET /enc/{encId}/card-languages
Quran translations GET /quran/translation-keys (editions, each with its language)
Surah names GET /quran/surah-names?language=xx

direction is rtl for Arabic, Persian, Dari, Pashto, Urdu, Uyghur, Kurdish (Sorani) and the other right-to-left scripts; use it to set dir on what you render.