---
title: preferredLanguage
description: Indicates a person's preferred language or languages, which is useful for international correspondence and computer interaction. RFC 2068 describes an Accept-Language field. That field's content, without Accept-Language:, matches the content of this attribute.
component: pingds
version: 8.1
page_id: pingds:schemaref:at-preferredLanguage
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingds/8.1/schemaref/at-preferredLanguage.html
---

# preferredLanguage

Indicates a person's preferred language or languages, which is useful for international correspondence and computer interaction. [RFC 2068](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2068.html) describes an `Accept-Language` field. That field's content, without `Accept-Language:`, matches the content of this attribute.

Example: `en, ko;q=0.8`.

|                             |                                                                                          |
| --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| *OID*                       | 2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.39                                                                 |
| *Names*                     | preferredLanguage                                                                        |
| *Description*               | preferred written or spoken language for a person                                        |
| *Syntax*                    | [DirectoryString](s-DirectoryString.html)                                                |
| *Equality matching rule*    | [caseIgnoreMatch](mr-caseIgnoreMatch.html)                                               |
| *Ordering matching rule*    | [caseIgnoreOrderingMatch](mr-caseIgnoreOrderingMatch.html)                               |
| *Substring matching rule*   | [caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch](mr-caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch.html)                           |
| *Single value*              | true                                                                                     |
| *User modification allowed* | true                                                                                     |
| *Usage*                     | userApplications                                                                         |
| *Origin*                    | [RFC 2798](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2798)                                |
| *Schema file*               | 00-core.ldif                                                                             |
| *Used by*                   | [iPlanetPreferences](oc-iPlanetPreferences.html), [inetOrgPerson](oc-inetOrgPerson.html) |