Language support

You can create copilots in Copilot Studio in many languages. Your copilots can reach a broader audience and engage with more markets around the world.

Specify the primary language for your copilot

Specify the target language when you create your copilot.

Important

Once you set your copilot's primary language, it can't be changed. You can only add secondary languages. For more information on how to configure multilingual copilots, see Configure and create multilingual copilots.

  1. From the Home page, select Create > New copilot.

  2. Select Edit language, then select a language from Primary copilot language, and then Save.

    Screenshot that shows the language selection option when creating a new copilot.

  3. When you're finished configuring your copilot, select Create at the top of the page.

Default content in the target language

After your new copilot is created, you notice it already has content in the target language, including system topics and template user topics on the Topics page.

Screenshot that shows all topics of a copilot in the target language.

You can create new topics for your copilot, author copilot trigger phrases, and create copilot messages in your target language.

You can test the copilot in the chat pane. In chat, you see how well the copilot understands user input and how it responds in that language.

List of supported languages

Copilot Studio supports languages in three stages. The stage indicates how well the copilot can understand user input in that language, with general availability being the strongest, followed by preview, and then experimental.

Note

Support levels include your Microsoft customer service support. For example, with features in preview, you can't yet contact Microsoft for technical support with Copilot Studio. In general availability, you can contact Microsoft for Copilot Studio support.

  • General availability: ✓ Language has full support.

  • Authoring canvas: Copilot creator sees the Copilot Studio UI in the target language.

  • End-user language: The language a user can type in chat to ask questions. Exceptions include copilots with generative AI features that aren't yet available in some languages.

  • Generative answers: A Copilot Studio feature that autogenerates chat responses.

  • Generative actions: A Copilot Studio feature that uses plugins in a conversation.

  • Voice support: A Copilot Studio feature that supports interactive voice response copilots.

    Note

    Generative actions is currently only available in English.

Language Language code Authoring canvas End-user language Generative answers Generative actions Voice support
Chinese (Simplified) zh-CN Not supported
Czech cs-CZ Not supported
Danish da-DK Not supported
Dutch nl-NL Not supported
English (Australia) en-AU Not supported Not supported
English (United Kingdom) en-GB Not supported Not supported
English (United States) en-US Preview
Finnish fi-FL Not supported
French (Canada) fr-CA Not supported Not supported
French (France) fr-FR Not supported
German de-DE Not supported
Greek el-GR Not supported
Hindi hi-IN Not supported
Indonesian id-ID Not supported
Italian it-IT Not supported
Japanese ja-JP Not supported
Korean ko-KR Not supported
Norwegian nb-NO Not supported
Polish pl-PL Not supported
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR Not supported
Russian ru-RU Not supported
Spanish (Spain) es-ES Not supported
Spanish (United States) es-US Not supported Not supported
Swedish sv-SE Not supported
Thai th-TH Not supported
Turkish tr-TR Not supported