How to shorten links with .htaccess?

Question

htaccess

I have a link like this

mysite/about?language=ru

instead of about there may be other words

I'm trying to shorten it with htaccess:

RewriteRule about?language=([0-9-]+)/([0-9-]+)/([a-z0 -9-]+) about/$1 but the link is not shortened.
Where is the mistake?

Answer 1

GET is not part of the url

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)language\=ru($|&)
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /%1? [L,R=301]