# locale ```js // usage chance.locale() chance.locale({region: true}) ``` Generate a random ISO-639-1 language code ```js chance.locale(); => 'ca' ``` Generate a random IETF region code ```js chance.locale({region: true}); => 'es-EA' ``` _Note, the language codes comes from the [ISO-639-1 spec](http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php) and the region codes come from [IETF standard](http://data.okfn.org/data/core/language-codes#resource-language-codes-full)_