Language Support

The Translation API's recognition engine supports a wide variety of languages for the Phrase-Based Machine Translation (PBMT) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models. These languages are specified within a recognition request using language code parameters as noted on this page. Most language code parameters conform to ISO-639-1 identifiers, except where noted.

Language Support for the Phrase-Based Machine Translation Model

A complete list of language tags supported by the Phrase-Based Machine Translation (PBMT) model are shown in the following table. The PBMT model supports translations from any language in this list to any language in this list. The list will be updated as new languages are added to the Translation API's PBMT model.

Language	ISO-639-1 Code
Afrikaans	af
Albanian	sq
Amharic	am
Arabic	ar
Armenian	hy
Azeerbaijani	az
Basque	eu
Belarusian	be
Bengali	bn
Bosnian	bs
Bulgarian	bg
Catalan	ca
Cebuano	ceb (ISO-639-2)
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-CN (BCP-47)
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-TW (BCP-47)
Corsican	co
Croatian	hr
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dutch	nl
English	en
Esperanto	eo
Estonian	et
Finnish	fi
French	fr
Frisian	fy
Galician	gl
Georgian	ka
German	de
Greek	el
Gujarati	gu
Haitian Creole	ht
Hausa	ha
Hawaiian	haw (ISO-639-2)
Hebrew	he**
Hindi	hi
Hmong	hmn (ISO-639-2)
Hungarian	hu
Icelandic	is
Igbo	ig
Indonesian	id
Irish	ga
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Javanese	jw
Kannada	kn
Kazakh	kk
Khmer	km
Korean	ko
Kurdish	ku
Kyrgyz	ky
Lao	lo
Latin	la
Latvian	lv
Lithuanian	lt
Luxembourgish	lb
Macedonian	mk
Malagasy	mg
Malay	ms
Malayalam	ml
Maltese	mt
Maori	mi
Marathi	mr
Mongolian	mn
Myanmar (Burmese)	my
Nepali	ne
Norwegian	no
Nyanja (Chichewa)	ny
Pashto	ps
Persian	fa
Polish	pl
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil)	pt
Punjabi	pa
Romanian	ro
Russian	ru
Samoan	sm
Scots Gaelic	gd
Serbian	sr
Sesotho	st
Shona	sn
Sindhi	sd
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	si
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Somali	so
Spanish	es
Sundanese	su
Swahili	sw
Swedish	sv
Tagalog (Filipino)	tl
Tajik	tg
Tamil	ta
Telugu	te
Thai	th
Turkish	tr
Ukrainian	uk
Urdu	ur
Uzbek	uz
Vietnamese	vi
Welsh	cy
Xhosa	xh
Yiddish	yi
Yoruba	yo
Zulu	zu

Language Support for the Neural Machine Translation Model

The Cloud Translation API Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model supports the language translation pairs shown in the following table. This list will be updated as new languages are added to the Translation API's NMT model.

Language Pair	Language Codes
Afrikaans <-> English	af <-> en
Albanian <-> English	sq <-> en
Amharic <-> English	am <-> en
Arabic <-> English	ar <-> en
Armenian <-> English	hy <-> en
Azeerbaijani <-> English	az <-> en
Basque <-> English	eu <-> en
Bengali <-> English	bn <-> en
Bosnian <-> English	bs <-> en
Bulgarian <-> English	bg <-> en
Catalan <-> English	ca <-> en
Cebuano <-> English	ceb (ISO-639-2) <-> en
Chinese (Simplified) <-> English	zh-CN * <-> en
Chinese (Traditional) <-> English	zh-TW <-> en
Corsican <-> English	co <-> en
Croatian <-> English	hr <-> en
Czech <-> English	cs <-> en
Danish <-> English	da <-> en
Dutch <-> English	nl <-> en
Esperanto <-> English	eo <-> en
Estonian <-> English	et <-> en
Finnish <-> English	fi <-> en
French <-> English	fr <-> en
Frisian <-> English	fy <-> en
Galician <-> English	gl <-> en
Georgian <-> English	ka <-> en
German <-> English	de <-> en
Greek <-> English	el <-> en
Gujarati <-> English	gu <-> en
Haitian Creole <-> English	ht <-> en
Hausa <-> English	ha <-> en
Hawaiian <-> English	haw (ISO-639-2) <-> en
Hebrew <-> English	he** <-> en
Hindi <-> English	hi <-> en
Hmong <-> English	hmn (ISO-639-2) <-> en
Hungarian <-> English	hu <-> en
Icelandic <-> English	is <-> en
Igbo <-> English	ig <-> en
Indonesian <-> English	id <-> en
Irish <-> English	ga <-> en
Italian <-> English	it <-> en
Japanese <-> English	ja <-> en
Javanese <-> English	jw <-> en
Kannada <-> English	kn <-> en
Kazakh <-> English	kk <-> en
Khmer <-> English	km <-> en
Korean <-> English	ko <-> en
Kurdish <-> English	ku <-> en
Lao <-> English	lo <-> en
Latvian <-> English	lv <-> en
Lithuanian <-> English	lt <-> en
Luxembourgish <-> English	lb <-> en
Macedonian <-> English	mk <-> en
Malagasy <-> English	mg <-> en
Malay <-> English	ms <-> en
Malayalam <-> English	ml <-> en
Maltese*** <- English	mt <- en
Maori <-> English	mi <-> en
Marathi <-> English	mr <-> en
Mongolian <-> English	mn <-> en
Nepali <-> English	ne <-> en
Norwegian <-> English	no <-> en
Nyanja (Chichewa) <-> English	ny <-> en
Pashto <-> English	ps <-> en
Persian <-> English	fa <-> en
Polish <-> English	pl <-> en
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) <-> English	pt <-> en
Punjabi <-> English	pa <-> en
Romanian <-> English	ro <-> en
Russian <-> English	ru <-> en
Samoan <-> English	sm <-> en
Scots Gaelic <-> English	gd <-> en
Serbian <-> English	sr <-> en
Sesotho <-> English	st <-> en
Shona <-> English	sn <-> en
Sindhi <-> English	sd <-> en
Sinhala (Sinhalese) <-> English	si <-> en
Slovak <-> English	sk <-> en
Slovenian <-> English	sl <-> en
Somali <-> English	so <-> en
Spanish <-> English	es <-> en
Swahili <-> English	sw <-> en
Swedish <-> English	sv <-> en
Tagalog (Filipino) <-> English	tl <-> en
Tajik <-> English	tg <-> en
Tamil <-> English	ta <-> en
Telugu <-> English	te <-> en
Thai <-> English	th <-> en
Turkish <-> English	tr <-> en
Ukrainian <-> English	uk <-> en
Urdu <-> English	ur <-> en
Uzbek <-> English	uz <-> en
Vietnamese <-> English	vi <-> en
Welsh <-> English	cy <-> en
Xhosa <-> English	xh <-> en
Yiddish <-> English	yi <-> en
Yoruba <-> English	yo <-> en
Zulu <-> English	zu <-> en

* Simplified Chinese may be specified either by zh-CN or zh.

** Hebrew may be specified either by he or iw.

*** Maltese (mt) to English (en) is currently not supported for the NMT model.