Joomla get current language

The following code might be useful to you if you want to get the current language in your custom component/module/plugin.

It will get the current language that is active on the website:

$lang =& JFactory::getLanguage();
echo "The current language is:". $lang->getName();

Reference : JFactory/getLanguage - Joomla! Documentation

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