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 | iw |
| 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 Google 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 | iw <-> 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.
** Maltese (mt) to English (en) is currently not supported for the NMT
model.
