Supported Languages
Langbly translates between 100+ languages. Language codes are compatible with the Google Cloud Translation v2 API, so if you are migrating from Google Translate you can keep the exact same codes and change only the endpoint.
Listing languages programmatically​
The full, always-current list is available from the API:
curl https://api.langbly.com/language/translate/v2/languages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
Response (Google v2-compatible):
{
"data": {
"languages": [
{ "language": "af" },
{ "language": "sq" },
{ "language": "am" }
]
}
}
Pass ?target=xx to get the language names localized in the language xx.
Using a language​
Set the target code on your translate request. The source is optional; if you omit it, the source language is detected automatically.
curl -X POST https://api.langbly.com/language/translate/v2 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "q": ["Hello, world"], "target": "de" }'
Coverage levels​
Every language below is fully available on every plan. The label indicates how extensively we have benchmarked and tuned it, not whether it works.
- Core — our most extensively benchmarked languages, with locale-aware formatting (dates, numbers, currency), formality handling, and the highest measured quality. Best choice for high-stakes content.
- Extended — the remaining languages. Fully supported and suitable for the large majority of use cases. Quality is strong but we benchmark these less frequently than the Core set.
- Experimental — available, but output can vary more and we recommend reviewing results before relying on them at scale. See the note below.
Core languages​
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Language variants​
A few languages have regional or script variants you can target directly:
| Variant | Code |
|---|---|
| English (generic) | en |
| English (UK) | en-GB |
| English (US) | en-US |
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh |
| Chinese (Traditional) | zh-TW |
Experimental: Kurdish​
Kurdish (ku) is offered experimentally. Kurdish is written in two different scripts, Sorani (Arabic script) and Kurmanji (Latin script), and requests do not carry a script preference. Langbly defaults Kurdish output to Sorani (Arabic script), which produces the most reliable results. If you need Kurmanji (Latin script) specifically, or you see inconsistent results, contact us at hello@langbly.com and we will help you pin the variant.
Full language reference​
| Language | Code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af | |
| Albanian | sq | |
| Amharic | am | |
| Arabic | ar | Core |
| Armenian | hy | |
| Azerbaijani | az | |
| Basque | eu | |
| Belarusian | be | |
| Bengali | bn | |
| Bosnian | bs | |
| Bulgarian | bg | |
| Catalan | ca | |
| Cebuano | ceb | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh | Core |
| Chinese (Traditional) | zh-TW | |
| Corsican | co | |
| Croatian | hr | |
| Czech | cs | |
| Danish | da | |
| Dutch | nl | Core |
| English | en | |
| English (UK) | en-GB | |
| English (US) | en-US | |
| Esperanto | eo | |
| Estonian | et | |
| Finnish | fi | |
| French | fr | Core |
| Frisian | fy | |
| Galician | gl | |
| Georgian | ka | |
| German | de | Core |
| Greek | el | |
| Gujarati | gu | |
| Haitian Creole | ht | |
| Hausa | ha | |
| Hawaiian | haw | |
| Hebrew | he | |
| Hindi | hi | |
| Hmong | hmn | |
| Hungarian | hu | |
| Icelandic | is | |
| Igbo | ig | |
| Indonesian | id | |
| Irish | ga | |
| Italian | it | Core |
| Japanese | ja | Core |
| Javanese | jv | |
| Kannada | kn | |
| Kazakh | kk | |
| Khmer | km | |
| Kinyarwanda | rw | |
| Korean | ko | Core |
| Kurdish | ku | Experimental |
| 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 | |
| Odia (Oriya) | or | |
| Pashto | ps | |
| Persian | fa | |
| Polish | pl | Core |
| Portuguese | pt | Core |
| Punjabi | pa | |
| Romanian | ro | |
| Russian | ru | Core |
| Samoan | sm | |
| Scots Gaelic | gd | |
| Serbian | sr | |
| Sesotho | st | |
| Shona | sn | |
| Sindhi | sd | |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | si | |
| Slovak | sk | |
| Slovenian | sl | |
| Somali | so | |
| Spanish | es | Core |
| Sundanese | su | |
| Swahili | sw | |
| Swedish | sv | Core |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | tl | |
| Tajik | tg | |
| Tamil | ta | |
| Tatar | tt | |
| Telugu | te | |
| Thai | th | |
| Turkish | tr | Core |
| Turkmen | tk | |
| Ukrainian | uk | |
| Urdu | ur | |
| Uyghur | ug | |
| Uzbek | uz | |
| Vietnamese | vi | |
| Welsh | cy | |
| Xhosa | xh | |
| Yiddish | yi | |
| Yoruba | yo | |
| Zulu | zu |
Not seeing a language you need? Email hello@langbly.com. We add languages regularly.