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    • ennovators
      ennovators last edited by

      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

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      • DmitriiK
        DmitriiK @ennovators last edited by

        Sure, I did this: http://bfy.tw/2hTu

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        • ennovators
          ennovators @DmitriiK last edited by

          Hi Dmitrii,

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

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          • gfiorelli1
            gfiorelli1 @ennovators last edited by

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

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            • gfiorelli1
              gfiorelli1 @DirkC last edited by

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

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              • gfiorelli1
                gfiorelli1 @DmitriiK last edited by

                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.

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                • DirkC
                  DirkC @gfiorelli1 last edited by

                  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 🙂

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                  • ennovators
                    ennovators @gfiorelli1 last edited by

                    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.

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                    • DmitriiK
                      DmitriiK @gfiorelli1 last edited by

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

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                      • gfiorelli1
                        gfiorelli1 @DmitriiK last edited by

                        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)

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                        • gfiorelli1
                          gfiorelli1 last edited by

                          Yes, you can.

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                          • DmitriiK
                            DmitriiK @ennovators last edited by

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

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                            • ennovators
                              ennovators @DmitriiK last edited by

                              yes, sure about that

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                              • DmitriiK
                                DmitriiK @ennovators last edited by

                                Are you sure that locale exists?

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                                • ennovators
                                  ennovators @DmitriiK last edited by

                                  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.

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                                  • DmitriiK
                                    DmitriiK last edited by

                                    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
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