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I know the common sudo languagesetup to set the system language. Does someone know how to get the system language or the language that was selected when Mac OS X was installed?

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The left part of osascript -e 'user locale of (get system info)' is the language selected in Setup Assistant (I think).

The language at the top of the list in the Language & Text preferences should be the second line of defaults read -g AppleLanguages.

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osascript -e 'user locale of (get system info)' is returning the locale as same as following code gives NSLocale *locale; locale = [NSLocale currentLocale]; NSLog(@"Current locale Identifier %@",[locale localeIdentifier]); This is the system language for the currently logged in user right?not the default system language. – Akbar Jun 11 '12 at 7:28

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