Translator language support

Translation - Cloud: Cloud translation is available in all languages for the Translate operation of Text Translation and for Document Translation.

Translation – Containers: Language support for Containers.

Custom Translator: Custom Translator can be used to create customized translation models that you can then use to customize your translated output while using the Text Translation or Document Translation features.

Auto Language Detection: Automatically detect the language of the source text while using Text Translation or Document Translation.

Dictionary: To display alternative translations from or to English and examples of words in context, use the Dictionary Lookup or Dictionary Examples operations from the Text Translation feature.

Translation

Note

Language code pt will default to pt-br, Portuguese (Brazil).

Language Language code Cloud – Text Translation and Document Translation Containers – Text Translation Custom Translator Auto Language Detection Dictionary
Afrikaans af
Albanian sq
Amharic am
Arabic ar
Armenian hy
Assamese as
Azerbaijani (Latin) az
Bangla bn
Bashkir ba
Basque eu
Bhojpuri bho
Bodo brx
Bosnian (Latin) bs
Bulgarian bg
Cantonese (Traditional) yue
Catalan ca
Chinese (Literary) lzh
Chinese Simplified zh-Hans
Chinese Traditional zh-Hant
chiShona sn
Croatian hr
Czech cs
Danish da
Dari prs
Divehi dv
Dogri doi
Dutch nl
English en
Estonian et
Faroese fo
Fijian fj
Filipino fil
Finnish fi
French fr
French (Canada) fr-ca
Galician gl
Georgian ka
German de
Greek el
Gujarati gu
Haitian Creole ht
Hausa ha
Hebrew he
Hindi hi
Hmong Daw (Latin) mww
Hungarian hu
Icelandic is
Igbo ig
Indonesian id
Inuinnaqtun ikt
Inuktitut iu
Inuktitut (Latin) iu-Latn
Irish ga
Italian it
Japanese ja
Kannada kn
Kashmiri ks
Kazakh kk
Khmer km
Kinyarwanda rw
Klingon tlh-Latn
Klingon (plqaD) tlh-Piqd
Konkani gom
Korean ko
Kurdish (Central) ku
Kurdish (Northern) kmr
Kyrgyz (Cyrillic) ky
Lao lo
Latvian lv
Lithuanian lt
Lingala ln
Lower Sorbian dsb
Luganda lug
Macedonian mk
Maithili mai
Malagasy mg
Malay (Latin) ms
Malayalam ml
Maltese mt
Maori mi
Marathi mr
Mongolian (Cyrillic) mn-Cyrl
Mongolian (Traditional) mn-Mong
Myanmar my
Nepali ne
Norwegian Bokmål nb
Nyanja nya
Odia or
Pashto ps
Persian fa
Polish pl
Portuguese (Brazil) pt
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-pt
Punjabi pa
Queretaro Otomi otq
Romanian ro
Rundi run
Russian ru
Samoan (Latin) sm
Serbian (Cyrillic) sr-Cyrl
Serbian (Latin) sr-Latn
Sesotho st
Sesotho sa Leboa nso
Setswana tn
Sindhi sd
Sinhala si
Slovak sk
Slovenian sl
Somali (Arabic) so
Spanish es
Swahili (Latin) sw
Swedish sv
Tahitian ty
Tamil ta
Tatar (Latin) tt
Telugu te
Thai th
Tibetan bo
Tigrinya ti
Tongan to
Turkish tr
Turkmen (Latin) tk
Ukrainian uk
Upper Sorbian hsb
Urdu ur
Uyghur (Arabic) ug
Uzbek (Latin) uz
Vietnamese vi
Welsh cy
Xhosa xh
Yoruba yo
Yucatec Maya yua
Zulu zu

Document Translation: scanned PDF support

Language Language Code Supported as source language for scanned PDF? Supported as target language for scanned PDF?
Afrikaans af Yes Yes
Albanian sq Yes Yes
Amharic am Yes No
Arabic ar Yes Yes
Armenian hy Yes No
Assamese as Yes No
Azerbaijani (Latin) az Yes Yes
Bangla bn Yes No
Bashkir ba Yes Yes
Basque eu Yes Yes
Bosnian (Latin) bs Yes Yes
Bulgarian bg Yes Yes
Cantonese (Traditional) yue Yes Yes
Catalan ca Yes Yes
Chinese (Literary) lzh Yes Yes
Chinese Simplified zh-Hans Yes Yes
Chinese Traditional zh-Hant Yes Yes
Croatian hr Yes Yes
Czech cs Yes Yes
Danish da Yes Yes
Dari prs Yes No
Divehi dv Yes No
Dutch nl Yes Yes
English en Yes Yes
Estonian et Yes Yes
Faroese fo Yes Yes
Fijian fj Yes Yes
Filipino fil Yes Yes
Finnish fi Yes Yes
French fr Yes Yes
French (Canada) fr-ca Yes Yes
Galician gl Yes Yes
Georgian ka Yes No
German de Yes Yes
Greek el Yes No
Gujarati gu Yes No
Haitian Creole ht Yes Yes
Hebrew he Yes No
Hindi hi Yes Yes
Hmong Daw (Latin) mww Yes Yes
Hungarian hu Yes Yes
Icelandic is Yes Yes
Indonesian id Yes Yes
Interlingua ia Yes Yes
Inuinnaqtun ikt Yes Yes
Inuktitut iu Yes No
Inuktitut (Latin) iu-Latn Yes Yes
Irish ga Yes Yes
Italian it Yes Yes
Japanese ja Yes Yes
Kannada kn Yes Yes
Kazakh (Cyrillic) kk, kk-cyrl Yes Yes
Kazakh (Latin) kk-latn Yes Yes
Khmer km Yes No
Klingon tlh-Latn Yes No
Klingon (plqaD) tlh-Piqd Yes No
Korean ko Yes Yes
Kurdish (Arabic) (Central) ku-arab,ku Yes No
Kurdish (Latin) (Northern) ku-latn, kmr Yes Yes
Kyrgyz (Cyrillic) ky Yes Yes
Lao lo Yes No
Latvian lv Yes Yes
Lithuanian lt Yes Yes
Macedonian mk Yes Yes
Malagasy mg Yes Yes
Malay (Latin) ms Yes Yes
Malayalam ml Yes Yes
Maltese mt Yes Yes
Maori mi Yes Yes
Marathi mr Yes Yes
Mongolian (Cyrillic) mn-Cyrl Yes Yes
Mongolian (Traditional) mn-Mong Yes No
Myanmar (Burmese) my Yes No
Nepali ne Yes Yes
Norwegian Bokmål nb Yes Yes
Odia or Yes No
Pashto ps Yes No
Persian fa Yes No
Polish pl Yes Yes
Portuguese (Brazil) pt, pt-br Yes Yes
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-pt Yes Yes
Punjabi pa Yes Yes
Queretaro Otomi otq Yes Yes
Romanian ro Yes Yes
Russian ru Yes Yes
Samoan (Latin) sm Yes Yes
Serbian (Cyrillic) sr-Cyrl Yes Yes
Serbian (Latin) sr, sr-latn Yes Yes
Slovak sk Yes Yes
Slovenian sl Yes Yes
Somali so Yes Yes
Spanish es Yes Yes
Swahili (Latin) sw Yes Yes
Swedish sv Yes Yes
Tahitian ty Yes Yes
Tamil ta Yes Yes
Tatar (Latin) tt Yes Yes
Telugu te Yes Yes
Thai th Yes No
Tibetan bo Yes No
Tigrinya ti Yes No
Tongan to Yes Yes
Turkish tr Yes Yes
Turkmen (Latin) tk Yes Yes
Ukrainian uk Yes Yes
Upper Sorbian hsb Yes Yes
Urdu ur Yes No
Uyghur (Arabic) ug Yes No
Uzbek (Latin) uz Yes Yes
Vietnamese vi Yes Yes
Welsh cy Yes Yes
Yucatec Maya yua Yes Yes
Zulu zu Yes Yes

Transliteration

The Transliterate operation in the Text Translation feature supports the following languages. In the To/From, <--> indicates that the language can be transliterated from or to either of the scripts listed. The --> indicates that the language can only be transliterated from one script to the other.

Language Language code Script To/From Script
Arabic ar Arabic Arab <--> Latin Latn
Assamese as Bengali Beng <--> Latin Latn
Bangla bn Bengali Beng <--> Latin Latn
Belarusian be Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Bulgarian bg Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Chinese (Simplified) zh-Hans Chinese Simplified Hans <--> Latin Latn
Chinese (Simplified) zh-Hans Chinese Simplified Hans <--> Chinese Traditional Hant
Chinese (Traditional) zh-Hant Chinese Traditional Hant <--> Latin Latn
Chinese (Traditional) zh-Hant Chinese Traditional Hant <--> Chinese Simplified Hans
Greek el Greek Grek <--> Latin Latn
Gujarati gu Gujarati Gujr <--> Latin Latn
Hebrew he Hebrew Hebr <--> Latin Latn
Hindi hi Devanagari Deva <--> Latin Latn
Japanese ja Japanese Jpan <--> Latin Latn
Kannada kn Kannada Knda <--> Latin Latn
Kazakh kk Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Korean ko Korean Kore <--> Latin Latn
Kyrgyz ky Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Macedonian mk Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Malayalam ml Malayalam Mlym <--> Latin Latn
Marathi mr Devanagari Deva <--> Latin Latn
Mongolian mn Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Odia or Oriya Orya <--> Latin Latn
Persian fa Arabic Arab <--> Latin Latn
Punjabi pa Gurmukhi Guru <--> Latin Latn
Russian ru Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Serbian (Cyrillic) sr-Cyrl Cyrillic Cyrl --> Latin Latn
Serbian (Latin) sr-Latn Latin Latn --> Cyrillic Cyrl
Sindhi sd Arabic Arab <--> Latin Latn
Sinhala si Sinhala Sinh <--> Latin Latn
Tajik tg Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Tamil ta Tamil Taml <--> Latin Latn
Tatar tt Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Telugu te Telugu Telu <--> Latin Latn
Thai th Thai Thai --> Latin Latn
Ukrainian uk Cyrillic Cyrl <--> Latin Latn
Urdu ur Arabic Arab <--> Latin Latn

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