This page contains the following information:
- Language support: the language code tables that Sendbird's message auto-translation feature currently supports.
- 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 feature is powered by Google Cloud Translation API recognition engine and Microsoft Translator engine. The following tables show the languages and codes that each engine supports.
Note: It is by default that Google's Cloud Translation API recognition engine is used for message auto-translation, whereas if your Sendbird application has been created before June 26, 2019, Microsoft Translator engine is used.
Google Cloud Translation API recognition engine's language codes
| 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 | Telugu | te |
Indonesian | id | Thai | th |
Irish | ga | Turkish | tr |
Italian | it | Ukrainian | uk |
Japanese | ja | Urdu | ur |
Javanese | jw | Uzbek | uz |
Kannada | kn | Vietnamese | vi |
Kazakh | kk | Welsh | cy |
Khmer | km | Xhosa | xh |
Korean | ko | Yiddish | yi |
Kurdish | ku | Yoruba | yo |
Kyrgyz | ky | Zulu | zu |
Lao | lo | ||
Latin | la |
Microsoft Translator engine's language codes
| Language | Code | Language | Code |
|---|---|---|---|
Afrikaans |
| Klingon (pIqaD) |
|
Arabic |
| Korean |
|
Bangla |
| Latvian |
|
Bosnian (Latin) |
| Lithuanian |
|
Bulgarian |
| Malagasy |
|
Cantonese (Traditional) |
| Malay |
|
Catalan |
| Maltese |
|
Chinese Simplified |
| Norwegian |
|
Chinese Traditional |
| Persian |
|
Croatian |
| Polish |
|
Czech |
| Portuguese |
|
Danish |
| Querétaro Otomi |
|
Dutch |
| Romanian |
|
English |
| Russian |
|
Estonian |
| Samoan |
|
Fijian |
| Serbian (Cyrillic) |
|
Filipino |
| Serbian (Latin) |
|
Finnish |
| Slovak |
|
French |
| Slovenian |
|
German |
| Spanish |
|
Greek |
| Swedish |
|
Haitian Creole |
| Tahitian |
|
Hebrew |
| Tamil |
|
Hindi |
| Telugu |
|
Hmong Daw |
| Thai |
|
Hungarian |
| Tongan |
|
Icelandic |
| Turkish |
|
Indonesian |
| Ukrainian |
|
Italian |
| Urdu |
|
Japanese |
| Vietnamese |
|
Kiswahili |
| Welsh |
|
Klingon |
| Yucatec Maya |
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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. |