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How translations work and languages available


The translation feature uses advanced machine learning to translate your text more accurately and naturally. Since translations depend on your text, we recommend keeping sentences short and simple. See additional tips below.

Use short and simple sentences

This helps machine translation to interpret the text and translate it accurately.

Avoid slang terms and idioms

Slang terms and idioms can be difficult for machine translation and lead to inaccurate translations.

Provide context

Providing additional context around the text can help the machine translation interpret the text more accurately.

Use punctuation correctly

Incorrect punctuation can be misinterpreted by the machine translation, resulting in translation errors.

Break down long sentences

Long sentences can be difficult for machine translation to interpret. Break them down into shorter, simpler sentences.

Avoid unnecessary line breaks in a sentence

Translate won’t recognise the sentence as one. Instead, translate each line separately.

What languages can I translate to?

Translate is available in the following languages per region.

Asia region

Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Cebuano, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dhivehi, Dogri, Filipino (Tagalog), Georgian, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Ilocano, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Konkani, Korean, Kurdish, Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Maithili, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Odia (Oriya), Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala (Sinhalese), Sundanese, Tagalog (Filipino), Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, and Vietnamese

North, Central & South America, Caribbean & Oceania region

Aymara, English, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Portuguese (Brazil), Quechua, Spanish, and Samoan

Europe region

Albanian, Dutch, French, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Frisian, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Ukrainian, Welsh, and Yiddish

Africa region

Afrikaans, Amharic, Bambara, Ewe, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Krio, Lingala, Luganda, Malagasy, Nyanja (Chichewa), Oromo, Sepedi, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Twi (Akan), Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu

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