Languages Supported in Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend supports a wide variety of languages for its various features. The languages supported and the features that support them can be seen in the following tables.

• Supported Languages

• Languages Supported by Amazon Comprehend Features

• Languages Supported by Detect Dominant Language

Supported Languages

Amazon Comprehend (except the Detect Dominant Language feature) supports the following languages for one or more features.

Code	Language
de	German
en	English
es	Spanish
it	Italian
pt	Portuguese
fr	French
ja	Japanese
ko	Korean
hi	Hindi
ar	Arabic
zh	Chinese (simplified)
zh-TW	Chinese (traditional)

Note

Amazon Comprehend identifies the language using identifiers from RFC 5646 — if there is a 2-letter ISO 639-1 identifier, with a regional subtag if necessary, it uses that. Otherwise, it uses the ISO 639-2 3-letter code. For more information about RFC 5646, see the IETF Tools web site.

Languages Supported by Amazon Comprehend Features

Feature	Supported Languages
Detect the Dominant Language	See Languages Supported by Detect Dominant Language
Detect Entities	All supported languages.
Detect Key Phrases	All supported languages.
Detect Personally Identifiable Information (PII)	English
Determine Sentiment	All supported languages.
Analyze Syntax	German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), and Portuguese (pt).
Topic Modeling	Not dependent on the language used.
Custom Classification	German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), and Portuguese (pt).
Custom Entity Recognition	German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), and Portuguese (pt).

Languages Supported by Detect Dominant Language

The Detect the Dominant Language feature can detect the following languages

Code	Language	Code	Language	Code	Language
af	Afrikaans	hy	Armenian	ps	Pushto
am	Amharic	ilo	Iloko	qu	Quechua
ar	Arabic	id	Indonesian	ro	Romanian
as	Assamese	is	Icelandic	ru	Russian
az	Azerbaijani	it	Italian	sa	Sanskrit
ba	Bashkir	jv	Javanese	si	Sinhala
be	Belarusian	ja	Japanese	sk	Slovak
bn	Bengali	kn	Kannada	sl	Slovenian
bs	Bosnian	ka	Georgian	sd	Sindhi
bg	Bulgarian	kk	Kazakh	so	Somali
ca	Catalan	km	Central Khmer	es	Spanish
ceb	Cebuano	ky	Kirghiz	sq	Albanian
cs	Czech	ko	Korean	sr	Serbian
cv	Chuvash	ku	Kurdish	su	Sundanese
cy	Welsh	la	Latin	sw	Swahili
da	Danish	lv	Latvian	sv	Swedish
de	German	lt	Lithuanian	ta	Tamil
el	Greek	lb	Luxembourgish	tt	Tatar
en	English	ml	Malayalam	te	Telugu
eo	Esperanto	mr	Marathi	tg	Tajik
et	Estonian	mk	Macedonian	tl	Tagalog
eu	Basque	mg	Malagasy	th	Thai
fa	Persian	mn	Mongolian	tk	Turkmen
fi	Finnish	ms	Malay	tr	Turkish
fr	French	my	Burmese	ug	Uighur
gd	Scottish Gaelic	ne	Nepali	uk	Ukrainian
ga	Irish	new	Newari	ur	Urdu
gl	Galician	nl	Dutch	uz	Uzbek
gu	Gujarati	no	Norwegian	vi	Vietnamese
ht	Haitian	or	Oriya	yi	Yiddish
he	Hebrew	pa	Punjabi	yo	Yoruba
hi	Hindi	pl	Polish	zh	Chinese (Simplified)
hr	Croatian	pt	Portuguese	zh-TW	Chinese (Traditional)
hu	Hungarian