Hreflang for bilingual website in the same region/location

[ennovators]

Hi everyone,

got a quick question concerning the hreflang tag.

I have a website with 2 different language versions targeting to the same region(Reason: The area is bilingual however not everyone speaks the other language fluently)

Question:
Can I use hreflang in that case like:

Many thanks in advance

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

I found this list of all available locales, if locales you're trying to do are in this list, then go ahead, otherwise it won't work.

P.S. List might be old and updated by now, but i don't think so.

• af-ZA
• am-ET
• ar-AE
• ar-BH
• ar-DZ
• ar-EG
• ar-IQ
• ar-JO
• ar-KW
• ar-LB
• ar-LY
• ar-MA
• arn-CL
• ar-OM
• ar-QA
• ar-SA
• ar-SY
• ar-TN
• ar-YE
• as-IN
• az-Cyrl-AZ
• az-Latn-AZ
• ba-RU
• be-BY
• bg-BG
• bn-BD
• bn-IN
• bo-CN
• br-FR
• bs-Cyrl-BA
• bs-Latn-BA
• ca-ES
• co-FR
• cs-CZ
• cy-GB
• da-DK
• de-AT
• de-CH
• de-DE
• de-LI
• de-LU
• dsb-DE
• dv-MV
• el-GR
• en-029
• en-AU
• en-BZ
• en-CA
• en-GB
• en-IE
• en-IN
• en-JM
• en-MY
• en-NZ
• en-PH
• en-SG
• en-TT
• en-US
• en-ZA
• en-ZW
• es-AR
• es-BO
• es-CL
• es-CO
• es-CR
• es-DO
• es-EC
• es-ES
• es-GT
• es-HN
• es-MX
• es-NI
• es-PA
• es-PE
• es-PR
• es-PY
• es-SV
• es-US
• es-UY
• es-VE
• et-EE
• eu-ES
• fa-IR
• fi-FI
• fil-PH
• fo-FO
• fr-BE
• fr-CA
• fr-CH
• fr-FR
• fr-LU
• fr-MC
• fy-NL
• ga-IE
• gd-GB
• gl-ES
• gsw-FR
• gu-IN
• ha-Latn-NG
• he-IL
• hi-IN
• hr-BA
• hr-HR
• hsb-DE
• hu-HU
• hy-AM
• id-ID
• ig-NG
• ii-CN
• is-IS
• it-CH
• it-IT
• iu-Cans-CA
• iu-Latn-CA
• ja-JP
• ka-GE
• kk-KZ
• kl-GL
• km-KH
• kn-IN
• kok-IN
• ko-KR
• ky-KG
• lb-LU
• lo-LA
• lt-LT
• lv-LV
• mi-NZ
• mk-MK
• ml-IN
• mn-MN
• mn-Mong-CN
• moh-CA
• mr-IN
• ms-BN
• ms-MY
• mt-MT
• nb-NO
• ne-NP
• nl-BE
• nl-NL
• nn-NO
• nso-ZA
• oc-FR
• or-IN
• pa-IN
• pl-PL
• prs-AF
• ps-AF
• pt-BR
• pt-PT
• qut-GT
• quz-BO
• quz-EC
• quz-PE
• rm-CH
• ro-RO
• ru-RU
• rw-RW
• sah-RU
• sa-IN
• se-FI
• se-NO
• se-SE
• si-LK
• sk-SK
• sl-SI
• sma-NO
• sma-SE
• smj-NO
• smj-SE
• smn-FI
• sms-FI
• sq-AL
• sr-Cyrl-BA
• sr-Cyrl-CS
• sr-Cyrl-ME
• sr-Cyrl-RS
• sr-Latn-BA
• sr-Latn-CS
• sr-Latn-ME
• sr-Latn-RS
• sv-FI
• sv-SE
• sw-KE
• syr-SY
• ta-IN
• te-IN
• tg-Cyrl-TJ
• th-TH
• tk-TM
• tn-ZA
• tr-TR
• tt-RU
• tzm-Latn-DZ
• ug-CN
• uk-UA
• ur-PK
• uz-Cyrl-UZ
• uz-Latn-UZ
• vi-VN
• wo-SN
• xh-ZA
• yo-NG
• zh-CN
• zh-HK
• zh-MO
• zh-SG
• zh-TW
• zu-ZA

[ennovators]

Hi Dmitrii,

many thanks for your reply. Great list, unfortunately I can't find my case. Though I think this list is not complete. E.x. I miss the the french speaking part in Italy for example,...

Helpful anyway though.

[DmitriiK]

Are you sure that locale exists?

[ennovators]

yes, sure about that

[DmitriiK]

Interesting. Google search doesn't return anything on this locale.

[gfiorelli1]

Yes, you can.

[gfiorelli1]

Yes, it exists (it is Alto Agide/South Tirol), and it's the same case of Netherlands (fr-NL and de-NL) or Switzerland (it-CH, fr-CH and de-CH)

[DmitriiK]

Well, I do see the ones you mentioned on that list, but not it-it or de-it.

[ennovators]

Hi Gianluca,

Thank you for your reply. In fact I'm refering to that exact region. The difference to your CH examples are though, that in Switzerland, the 3 language regions are not the exact same "location".

In my case they are though so I got a bit confused.

So basically Im not saying, a specific region in Switzerland speaks French, another German and another Italian, but I say the exact same location/region speaks German and Italian.

[DirkC]

Gianluca - I guess this time it's my turn:  As far as I know they only have one official language in the Netherlands (Dutch) - I guess you refer to Belgium (3 official languages Dutch/French/German).

It's a common error to make this mistake - but the difference is easy to spot: Belgium is qualified for Euro '16 - unlike the Netherlands

[gfiorelli1]

It's a cultural thing. I'm that province of Italy people talk or Italian or German, so if you want to target both with your multilingual site you must tell it to Google with hreflang, even if it is not listed in the ISO chart.

you do the same for targeting Spanish speaking people in the usa, for instance.

[gfiorelli1]

Lol! You're right. I was indeed thinking about Belgium and not Netherlands

[gfiorelli1]

My answer is the correct. See what I replied above to Dmitrii

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[ennovators]

Hi Dmitrii,

can you perhaps tell me the source, where you found the supported annotations above. Many Thanks

[DmitriiK]

Sure, I did this: http://bfy.tw/2hTu