
Our Drupal expert on configuring language prefix in Drupal 8
Language prefix is user configurable, for example you can set it to null for default language or to be different from the language code.
http://mysite.com/admin/config/regional/language/detection/url
If you need to get a language prefix in your code, in Drupal 8, this is how to do it:
function getLanguagePrefix() { if($prefixes = Drupal::config('language.negotiation')->get('url.prefixes')) { $language = Drupal::languageManager()->getCurrentLanguage()->getId(); if($prefixes[$language]){ return "/" . $prefixes[$language]; } return null; }