From https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks#syntax-highlighting > We use [Linguist](https://github.com/github/linguist) to perform language detection and to select [third-party grammars](https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/vendor/README.md) for syntax highlighting. You can find out which keywords are [valid in the languages YAML file](https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml). See also https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/vendor/README.md
From https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks#syntax-highlighting
See also https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/vendor/README.md