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

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

Custom Translator language pairs

Source Language Target Language
Czech (cs-cz) English (en-us)
Danish (da-dk) English (en-us)
German (de-​de) English (en-us)
Greek (el-gr) English (en-us)
English (en-us) Arabic (ar-sa)
English (en-us) Czech (cs-cz)
English (en-us) Danish (da-dk)
English (en-us) German (de-​de)
English (en-us) Greek (el-gr)
English (en-us) Spanish (es-es)
English (en-us) French (fr-fr)
English (en-us) Hebrew (he-il)
English (en-us) Hindi (hi-in)
English (en-us) Croatian (hr-hr)
English (en-us) Hungarian (hu-hu)
English (en-us) Indonesian (id-id)
English (en-us) Italian (it-it)
English (en-us) Japanese (ja-jp)
English (en-us) Korean (ko-kr)
English (en-us) Lithuanian (lt-lt)
English (en-us) Latvian (lv-lv)
English (en-us) Norwegian (nb-no)
English (en-us) Polish (pl-pl)
English (en-us) Portuguese (pt-pt)
English (en-us) Russian (ru-ru)
English (en-us) Slovak (sk-sk)
English (en-us) Swedish (sv-se)
English (en-us) Ukrainian (uk-ua)
English (en-us) Vietnamese (vi-vn)
English (en-us) Chinese Simplified (zh-cn)
Spanish (es-es) English (en-us)
French (fr-fr) English (en-us)
Hindi (hi-in) English (en-us)
Hungarian (hu-hu) English (en-us)
Indonesian (id-id) English (en-us)
Italian (it-it) English (en-us)
Japanese (ja-jp) English (en-us)
Korean (ko-kr) English (en-us)
Norwegian (nb-no) English (en-us)
Dutch (nl-nl) English (en-us)
Polish (pl-pl) English (en-us)
Portuguese (pt-br) English (en-us)
Russian (ru-ru) English (en-us)
Swedish (sv-se) English (en-us)
Thai (th-th) English (en-us)
Turkish (tr-tr) English (en-us)
Vietnamese (vi-vn) English (en-us)
Chinese Simplified (zh-cn) English (en-us)

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