我试图为自己找出正确的解决办法。当我使用Locale.preferredLanguages.first从你的应用程序设置返回首选语言。

如果你想从用户设备设置中了解语言，你应该使用下面的字符串:

斯威夫特3

let currentDeviceLanguage = Locale.current.languageCode
// Will return the optional String

要展开并使用，请看下面这行:

if let currentDeviceLanguage = Locale.current.languageCode {
    print("currentLanguage", currentDeviceLanguage)

    // For example
    if currentDeviceLanguage == "he" {
        UIView.appearance().semanticContentAttribute = .forceRightToLeft
    } else {
        UIView.appearance().semanticContentAttribute = .forceLeftToRight
    }
}

迅速:

let languageCode = NSLocale.currentLocale().objectForKey(NSLocaleLanguageCode) as? String

-(NSString *)returnPreferredLanguage { //as written text

NSUserDefaults * defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSArray *preferredLanguages = [defaults objectForKey:@"AppleLanguages"];
NSString *preferredLanguageCode = [preferredLanguages objectAtIndex:0]; //preferred device language code
NSLocale *enLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en"]; //language name will be in English (or whatever)
NSString *languageName = [enLocale displayNameForKey:NSLocaleIdentifier value:preferredLanguageCode]; //name of language, eg. "French"
return languageName;

}

斯威夫特3

let locale = Locale.current
let code = (locale as NSLocale).object(forKey: NSLocale.Key.countryCode) as! String?
print(code!)

简单Swift 3功能:

@discardableResult
func getLanguageISO() -> String {
    let locale = Locale.current
    guard let languageCode = locale.languageCode,
          let regionCode = locale.regionCode else {
        return "de_DE"
    }
    return languageCode + "_" + regionCode
}

对于MonoTouch c#开发人员使用:

NSLocale.PreferredLanguages.FirstOrDefault() ?? "en"

注:我知道这是一个iOS问题，但作为MonoTouch开发者，这个页面上的答案引导我走向正确的方向，我想分享一下结果。