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ISO 639-1

si Sinhala; Sinhalese

Sinhala; Sinhalese carries the ISO 639-1 two-letter code si.

In practice this code appears in HTML (<html lang="si">), HTTP Accept-Language headers, locale identifiers such as si-XX, subtitle tracks and translation files — anywhere software needs to say “this content is in Sinhala”.