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Named Entity Recognition (NER) language support

Use this article to learn which natural languages are supported by the NER feature of Azure AI Language.

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You can additionally find the language support for the Preview API in the second tab.

NER language support

Generally Available API

Language	Language Code	Notes
Afrikaans	`af`
Albanian	`sq`
Amharic	`am`
Arabic	`ar`
Armenian	`hy`
Assamese	`as`
Azerbaijani	`az`
Basque	`eu`
Bengali	`bn`
Bosnian	`bs`
Bulgarian	`bg`
Burmese	`my`
Catalan	`ca`
Chinese (Simplified)	`zh-Hans`	`zh` also accepted
Chinese (Traditional)	`zh-Hant`
Croatian	`hr`
Czech	`cs`
Danish	`da`
Dutch	`nl`
English	`en`
Estonian	`et`
Finnish	`fi`
French	`fr`
Galician	`gl`
Georgian	`ka`
German	`de`
Greek	`el`
Gujarati	`gu`
Hebrew	`he`
Hindi	`hi`
Hungarian	`hu`
Indonesian	`id`
Irish	`ga`
Italian	`it`
Japanese	`ji`
Kannada	`kn`
Kazakh	`kk`
Khmer	`km`
Korean	`ko`
Kurdish (Kurmanji)	`ku`
Kyrgyz	`ky`
Lao	`lo`
Latvian	`lv`
Lithuanian	`lt`
Macedonian	`mk`
Malagasy	`mg`
Malay	`ms`
Malayalam	`ml`
Marathi	`mr`
Mongolian	`mn`
Nepali	`ne`
Norwegian (Bokmal)	`no`	`nb` also accepted
Odia	`or`
Pashto	`ps`
Persian	`fa`
Polish	`pl`
Portuguese (Brazil)	`pt-BR`
Portuguese (Portugal)	`pt-PT`	`pt` also accepted
Punjabi	`pa`
Romanian	`ro`
Russian	`ru`
Serbian	`sr`
Slovak	`sk`
Slovenian	`sl`
Somali	`so`
Spanish	`es`
Swahili	`sw`
Swazi	`ss`
Swedish	`sv`
Tamil	`ta`
Telugu	`te`
Thai	`th`
Turkish	`tr`
Ukrainian	`uk`
Urdu	`ur`
Uyghur	`ug`
Uzbek	`uz`
Vietnamese	`vi`
Welsh	`cy`

Preview API

Language	Language Code	Notes
Afrikaans	`af`
Albanian	`sq`
Amharic	`am`
Arabic	`ar`
Armenian	`hy`
Assamese	`as`
Azerbaijani	`az`
Basque	`eu`
Belarusian (new)	`be`
Bengali	`bn`
Bosnian	`bs`
Breton (new)	`br`
Bulgarian	`bg`
Burmese	`my`	`zh` also accepted
Catalan	`ca`
Chinese (Simplified)	`zh-Hans`
Chinese (Traditional)	`zh-Hant`
Croatian	`hr`
Czech	`cs`
Danish	`da`
Dutch	`nl`
English	`en`
Esperanto (new)	`eo`
Estonian	`et`
Filipino	`fil`
Finnish	`fi`
French	`fr`
Galician	`gl`
Georgian	`ka`
German	`de`
Greek	`el`
Gujarati	`gu`
Hausa (new)	`ha`
Hebrew	`he`
Hindi	`hi`
Hungarian	`hu`
Indonesian	`id`
Irish	`ga`
Italian	`it`
Japanese	`ji`
Javanese (new)	`jv`
Kannada	`kn`
Kazakh	`kk`
Khmer	`km`
Korean	`ko`
Kurdish (Kurmanji)	`ku`
Kyrgyz	`ky`
Lao	`lo`
Latin (new)	`la`
Latvian	`lv`
Lithuanian	`lt`
Macedonian	`mk`	nb also accepted
Malagasy	`mg`
Malay	`ms`
Malayalam	`ml`
Marathi	`mr`
Mongolian	`mn`
Nepali	`ne`	pt also accepted
Norwegian	`no`
Odia	`or`
Oromo (new)	`om`
Pashto	`ps`
Persian	`fa`
Polish	`pl`
Portuguese (Brazil)	`pt-BR`
Portuguese (Portugal)	`pt-PT`
Punjabi	`pa`
Romanian	`ro`
Russian	`ru`
Sanskrit (new)	`sa`
Scottish Gaelic (new)	`gd`
Serbian	`sr`
Sindhi (new)	`sd`
Sinhala (new)	`si`
Slovak	`sk`
Slovenian	`sl`
Somali	`so`
Spanish	`es`
Sundanese (new)	`su`
Swahili	`sw`
Swedish	`sv`
Tamil	`ta`
Telugu	`te`
Thai	`th`
Turkish	`tr`
Ukrainian	`uk`
Urdu	`ur`
Uyghur	`ug`
Uzbek	`uz`
Vietnamese	`vi`
Welsh	`cy`
Western Frisian (new)	`fy`
Xhosa (new)	`xh`
Yiddish (new)	`yi`

Next steps

NER feature overview