Drupal 8: Get The Current Language

By philipnorton42 on 26th April 2016

To get the currently selected language on a Drupal 8 site you need to run the following.

$language = \Drupal::languageManager()->getCurrentLanguage()->getId();

This will return the 2 character ISO language code for the language. So for English this would be "en".

To get the language name instead of the language code use this.

$language = \Drupal::languageManager()->getCurrentLanguage()->getName();

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Sarah Jay - Tue, 08/30/2016 - 20:46

It,s really helpful. Thank you so much.

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Josip Rajkovic - Wed, 10/17/2018 - 15:04

Short, cool and informative. Thank you!

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tty11 - Thu, 02/07/2019 - 09:17

Small remark,

To get the currently selected language for content :

$language = \Drupal::languageManager()->getCurrentLanguage(LanguageInterface::TYPE_CONTENT)->getId();