Locale En Bz

Reference data for the English (Belize) locale — endonym English (Belize), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: en-BZ
• ISO 639-1: en
• ISO 639-3: eng
• Script: Latn (Latin)
• Region: BZ (Belize)
• Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 180,000
• L2 (additional): 150,000
• L1+L2 (total): 330,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale En 001 (English), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

• one — i = 1 and v = 0 (e.g. 1)
• other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale En 001 and use these Belizean conventions. English is the official language, with Belize Kriol and Spanish widely spoken.

• Spelling: British forms (-ise, -our, -re).
• Dates and numbers: day/month/year, BZ$ for the Belize dollar, decimal point and comma thousands separator.
• Multilingual context: keep Kriol, Spanish, Garifuna, and Maya place and community names in their local spellings.

Common pitfalls

• Respelling Kriol words as English.
• Assuming a US audience for US-style dates and spellings.
• The general pitfalls in Locale En 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Microsoft Writing Style Guide (https://learn.microsoft.com/style-guide/welcome/)
• Unicode CLDR locale data for date, number, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)