Supported world languages

Search and recommendations both support the following world languages.

Recommendations

Most languages are supported. The model automatically detects the text language.

Language Name Script Name
Afrikaans Latin
Amharic Ethiopic
Arabic Arabic
Bulgarian Cyrillic
Bulgarian Latin
Bangla Bangla
Bosnian Latin
Catalan Latin
Cebuano Latin
Corsican Latin
Czech Latin
Welsh Latin
Danish Latin
German Latin
Greek Greek
Greek Latin
English Latin
Esperanto Latin
Spanish Latin
Estonian Latin
Basque Latin
Persian Arabic
Finnish Latin
Filipino Latin
French Latin
Western Frisian Latin
Irish Latin
Scottish Gaelic Latin
Galician Latin
Gujarati Gujarati
Hausa Latin
Hawaiian Latin
Hindi Devanagari
Hindi Latin
Hmong Latin
Croatian Latin
Haitian Creole Latin
Hungarian Latin
Armenian Armenian
Indonesian Latin
Igbo Latin
Icelandic Latin
Italian Latin
Hebrew Hebrew
Japanese Japanese
Japanese Latin
Javanese Latin
Georgian Georgian
Kazakh Cyrillic
Khmer Khmer
Kannada Kannada
Korean Korean
Kurdish Latin
Kyrgyz Cyrillic
Latin Latin
Luxembourgish Latin
Lao Lao
Lithuanian Latin
Latvian Latin
Malagasy Latin
Maori Latin
Macedonian Cyrillic
Malayalam Malayalam
Mongolian Cyrillic
Marathi Devanagari
Malay Latin
Maltese Latin
Burmese Myanmar
Nepali Devanagari
Dutch Latin
Norwegian Latin
Nyanja Latin
Punjabi Gurmukhi
Polish Latin
Pashto Arabic
Portuguese Latin
Romanian Latin
Russian Cyrillic
Russian English
Sindhi Arabic
Sinhala Sinhala
Slovak Latin
Slovenian Latin
Samoan Latin
Shona Latin
Somali Latin
Albanian Latin
Serbian Cyrillic
Southern Sotho Latin
Sundanese Latin
Swedish Latin
Swahili Latin
Tamil Tamil
Telugu Telugu
Tajik Cyrillic
Thai Thai
Turkish Latin
Ukrainian Cyrillic
Urdu Arabic
Uzbek Latin
Vietnamese Latin
Xhosa Latin
Yiddish Hebrew
Yoruba Latin
Chinese Han (including Simplified and Traditional)
Chinese Latin
Zulu Latin

For a list of all languages that can be automatically detected, see the Compact Language Detector GitHub README.

Search for retail

Supported languages
Arabic English
Bulgarian Estonian
Catalan Finnish
Chinese (simplified) French
Chinese (traditional) German
Croatian Greek
Czech Hebrew
Danish Hungarian
Icelandic Romanian
Italian Russian
Japanese Serbian
Korean Slovak
Latvian Slovenian
Lithuanian Spanish
Norwegian Swedish
Polish Thai
Turkish

You set the language when you upload your catalog for your Vertex AI Search for retail project. The catalog should be in one language only and search queries should be sent in the same language. Having multiple languages in the catalog degrades LLM performance.