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Top 40 highest-traffic markets are exposed; for any other country, omit this field and pass the location string instead." }, "hl": { "title": "Language Code", "enum": [ "en", "es", "fr", "de", "it", "pt", "nl", "ru", "uk", "pl", "cs", "sv", "da", "no", "fi", "el", "tr", "ar", "he", "ja", "ko", "zh", "zh-cn", "zh-tw", "th", "vi", "id", "ms", "tl", "hi", "bn", "ta", "te", "ur", "fa", "hu", "ro", "bg", "hr", "sk", "sl" ], "type": "string", "description": "Set the interface language code for localization (ISO 639-1 base codes, lowercase). Optional. The Actor normalizes regional variants like 'en-gb' to base codes like 'en'." }, "lr": { "title": "Language Restriction", "type": "string", "description": "Restrict results to a specific language (e.g. 'lang_en', 'lang_es', 'lang_fr'). Optional. 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