This page contains the following information:
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Language supported for translation: a list of languages the message auto-translation and on-demand translation features currently support.
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Deprecated block modes: the block modes that are deprecated but still supported for customers who have been using since before.
Sendbird’s message auto-translation and on-demand features are powered by Google Cloud Translation API recognition engine. The following table shows the languages and codes that Google Cloud engine supports.
Note: Message translation through the Microsoft Translator engine is no longer available. All Sendbird applications that used the engine have been migrated and are now supported by Google Cloud Translation engine.
Google Cloud Translation API recognition engine's Language Support
| Language | Code | Language | Code |
|---|---|---|---|
Afrikaans | af | Latvian | lv |
Albanian | sq | Lithuanian | lt |
Amharic | am | Luxembourgish | lb |
Arabic | ar | Macedonian | mk |
Armenian | hy | Malagasy | mg |
Azerbaijani | az | Malay | ms |
Basque | eu | Malayalam | ml |
Belarusian | be | Maltese | mt |
Bengali | bn | Maori | mi |
Bosnian | bs | Marathi | mr |
Bulgarian | bg | Mongolian | mn |
Catalan | ca | Myanmar (Burmese) | my |
Cebuano | ceb (ISO-639-2) | Nepali | ne |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh-CN or zh (BCP-47) | Norwegian | no |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh-TW (BCP-47) | Nyanja (Chichewa) | ny |
Corsican | co | Pashto | ps |
Croatian | hr | Persian | fa |
Czech | cs | Polish | pl |
Danish | da | Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | pt |
Dutch | nl | Punjabi | pa |
English | en | Romanian | ro |
Esperanto | eo | Russian | ru |
Estonian | et | Samoan | sm |
Finnish | fi | Scots Gaelic | gd |
French | fr | Serbian | sr |
Frisian | fy | Sesotho | st |
Galician | gl | Shona | sn |
Georgian | ka | Sindhi | sd |
German | de | Sinhala (Sinhalese) | si |
Greek | el | Slovak | sk |
Gujarati | gu | Slovenian | sl |
Haitian Creole | ht | Somali | so |
Hausa | ha | Spanish | es |
Hawaiian | haw (ISO-639-2) | Sundanese | su |
Hebrew | he or iw | Swahili | sw |
Hindi | hi | Swedish | sv |
Hmong | hmn (ISO-639-2) | Tagalog (Filipino) | tl |
Hungarian | hu | Tajik | tg |
Icelandic | is | Tamil | ta |
Igbo | ig | Tatar | tt |
Indonesian | id | Telugu | te |
Irish | ga | Thai | th |
Italian | it | Turkish | tr |
Japanese | ja | Turkmen | tk |
Javanese | jv | Ukrainian | uk |
Kannada | kn | Urdu | ur |
Kazakh | kk | Uyghur | ug |
Khmer | km | Uzbek | uz |
Kinyarwanda | rw | Vietnamese | vi |
Korean | ko | Welsh | cy |
Kurdish | ku | Xhosa | xh |
Kyrgyz | ky | Yiddish | yi |
Lao | lo | Yoruba | yo |
Latin | la | Zulu | zu |
The following tables describe how the deprecated block modes work. They are only supported for customers who have been using it since before.
| Group channel | Messages | Push notification | Channel list |
|---|---|---|---|
1-on-1 | New messages from the blocked user will not be delivered to the channel, and an error for sending the message returned to a user. The blocked user is aware of their blocked status. | A user will not be notified that the blocked user sent a message. | A user's channel list will not be updated and rearranged from the blocked user's messages. |
1-on-N (group chat) | All the messages from blocked users are delivered to the channel. You can choose whether or not a user can view which users they have blocked in the UI of the channel. | Messages sent from blocked users will be notified to a user. | A user's channel list will be updated and rearranged from a blocked user's messages. |
| Group channel | Messages | Push notification | Channel list |
|---|---|---|---|
1-on-1 | New messages sent from the blocked user will not be delivered to the channel, but are saved and displayed to the blocked user's channel view. A blocked user is not aware of their blocked status. | A user will not be notified that the blocked user sent a message. | A user's channel list will not be updated and rearranged from the blocked user's messages. |
1-on-N (group chat) | All the messages sent from blocked users are delivered to the channel. A user can't see all messages that blocked users have sent so far. | Messages sent from blocked users will not be notified to a user. | A user's channel list will not be updated and rearranged from a blocked user's messages. |