(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
Locale::getPrimaryLanguage -- locale_get_primary_language — Gets the primary language for the input locale
Object-oriented style
Procedural style
Gets the primary language for the input locale
locale
The locale to extract the primary language code from
The language code associated with the language.
Returns null
when the length of locale
exceeds INTL_MAX_LOCALE_LEN
.
Example #1 locale_get_primary_language() example
<?php
echo locale_get_primary_language('zh-Hant');
?>
Example #2 OO example
<?php
echo Locale::getPrimaryLanguage('zh-Hant');
?>
The above example will output:
zh