# Languages supported by Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
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Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports a variety of languages. The following sections detail language support for the specific policies offered by Amazon Bedrock Guardrails.

**Important**  
We strongly recommend that you test the intended languages for your guardrails use case. Guardrails are ineffective with languages that aren't supported.

**Key terms**
+ **Optimized and supported** – The underlying models supporting the particular policy are tuned and tested for the specific language.
+ **Supported** – The underlying models supporting the particular policy are tested but not tuned for the specific language.

## Content filters and prompt attacks language support
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Language support for [text-based content filters](guardrails-content-filters.md) and prompt attacks varies depending on the [safeguard tier](guardrails-tiers.md) you use.

### Content filters and prompt attacks language support (Standard tier)
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The following table shows which languages are supported for text-based content filtering and prompt attacks in the Standard tier.


| Language | Support level | 
| --- | --- | 
| Afrikaans | Supported | 
| Albanian | Supported | 
| Arabic | Optimized and supported | 
| Armenian | Supported | 
| Assamese | Supported | 
| Azerbaijani | Supported | 
| Basque | Supported | 
| Belarusian | Supported | 
| Bengali | Supported | 
| Bosnian | Supported | 
| Bulgarian | Supported | 
| Bulgarian (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Burmese | Supported | 
| Catalan | Supported | 
| Cebuano | Supported | 
| Chinese (Simplified) | Optimized and supported | 
| Chinese (Traditional) | Supported | 
| Croatian | Supported | 
| Czech | Supported | 
| Danish | Supported | 
| Dutch | Optimized and supported | 
| English (all locales) | Optimized and supported | 
| Estonian | Supported | 
| Filipino | Supported | 
| Finnish | Optimized and supported | 
| French | Optimized and supported | 
| Galician | Supported | 
| Georgian | Supported | 
| German | Optimized and supported | 
| Greek | Supported | 
| Gujarati | Supported | 
| Haitian Creole | Supported | 
| Hebrew | Supported | 
| Hindi | Optimized and supported | 
| Hungarian | Supported | 
| Icelandic | Supported | 
| Indonesian | Supported | 
| Irish | Supported | 
| Italian | Optimized and supported | 
| Japanese | Optimized and supported | 
| Javanese | Supported | 
| Kannada | Supported | 
| Kazakh | Supported | 
| Khmer | Supported | 
| Korean | Optimized and supported | 
| Kurmanji | Supported | 
| Kyrgyz | Supported | 
| Latvian | Supported | 
| Lithuanian | Supported | 
| Macedonian | Supported | 
| Malay | Supported | 
| Malayalam | Supported | 
| Maltese | Supported | 
| Marathi | Supported | 
| Nepali | Supported | 
| Norwegian | Optimized and supported | 
| Pashto | Supported | 
| Persian (Farsi) | Supported | 
| Polish | Optimized and supported | 
| Portuguese | Optimized and supported | 
| Punjabi | Supported | 
| Romanian | Supported | 
| Russian | Supported | 
| Russian (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | Supported | 
| Serbianian (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Sinhala | Supported | 
| Slovak | Supported | 
| Slovenian | Supported | 
| Spanish | Optimized and supported | 
| Sundanese | Supported | 
| Swahili | Supported | 
| Swedish | Optimized and supported | 
| Tagalog | Supported | 
| Tajik | Supported | 
| Tamil | Supported | 
| Telugu | Supported | 
| Thai | Supported | 
| Turkish | Supported | 
| Ukrainian | Supported | 
| Urdu | Supported | 
| Uzbek (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Vietnamese | Optimized and supported | 
| Welsh | Supported | 

### Content filters and prompt attacks language support (Classic tier)
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Classic tier supports the following languages for text-based content filters and prompt attacks:


|  Language  |  Support level  | 
| --- | --- | 
|  English  | Optimized and supported | 
|  French  | Optimized and supported | 
|  Spanish  |  Optimized and supported  | 

## Denied topics language support
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Language support for [denied topics](guardrails-denied-topics.md) varies depending on the [safeguard tier](guardrails-tiers.md) you use.

### Denied topics language support (Standard tier)
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The following table shows which languages are supported for text-based content filtering in the Standard tier.


| Language | Support level | 
| --- | --- | 
| Afrikaans | Supported | 
| Amharic | Supported | 
| Albanian | Supported | 
| Arabic | Optimized and supported | 
| Armenian | Supported | 
| Assamese | Supported | 
| Azerbaijani | Supported | 
| Basque | Supported | 
| Belarusian | Supported | 
| Bengali | Supported | 
| Bosnian | Supported | 
| Bulgarian | Supported | 
| Bulgarian (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Burmese | Supported | 
| Catalan | Supported | 
| Cebuano | Supported | 
| Chinese (Pinyin) | Supported | 
| Chinese (Simplified) | Optimized and supported | 
| Chinese (Traditional) | Supported | 
| Croatian | Supported | 
| Czech | Supported | 
| Danish | Supported | 
| Dutch | Optimized and supported | 
| English (all locales) | Optimized and supported | 
| Estonian | Supported | 
| Filipino | Supported | 
| Finnish | Optimized and supported | 
| French | Optimized and supported | 
| Galician | Supported | 
| Georgian | Supported | 
| German | Optimized and supported | 
| Greek | Supported | 
| Greek (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Gujarati | Supported | 
| Haitian Creole | Supported | 
| Hausa | Supported | 
| Hebrew | Supported | 
| Hindi | Optimized and supported | 
| Hindi (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Hungarian | Supported | 
| Icelandic | Supported | 
| Igbo | Supported | 
| Indonesian | Supported | 
| Italian | Optimized and supported | 
| Irish | Supported | 
| Japanese | Optimized and supported | 
| Japanese (Romaji) | Supported | 
| Javanese | Supported | 
| Kannada | Supported | 
| Kazakh | Supported | 
| Khmer | Supported | 
| Korean | Optimized and supported | 
| Kurmanji | Supported | 
| Kyrgyz | Supported | 
| Lao | Supported | 
| Latvian | Supported | 
| Lithuanian | Supported | 
| Macedonian | Supported | 
| Malay | Supported | 
| Malayalam | Supported | 
| Maltese | Supported | 
| Marathi | Supported | 
| Mongolian | Supported | 
| Nepali | Supported | 
| Norwegian | Optimized and supported | 
| Pashto | Supported | 
| Persian (Farsi) | Supported | 
| Polish | Optimized and supported | 
| Portuguese | Optimized and supported | 
| Punjabi | Supported | 
| Romanian | Supported | 
| Russian | Supported | 
| Russian (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Scottish Gaelic | Supported | 
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | Supported | 
| Serbianian (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Shona | Supported | 
| Sindhi | Supported | 
| Sinhala | Supported | 
| Slovak | Supported | 
| Slovenian | Supported | 
| Somali | Supported | 
| Spanish | Optimized and supported | 
| Sundanese | Supported | 
| Swahili | Supported | 
| Swedish | Optimized and supported | 
| Tagalog | Supported | 
| Tajik | Supported | 
| Tamil | Supported | 
| Telugu | Supported | 
| Thai | Supported | 
| Tigrinya | Supported | 
| Turkish | Supported | 
| Ukrainian | Supported | 
| Urdu | Supported | 
| Uzbek (Latin script) | Supported | 
| Vietnamese | Optimized and supported | 
| Welsh | Supported | 
| Xhosa | Supported | 
| Zulu | Supported | 

### Denied topics language support (Classic tier)
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Classic tier supports the following languages for denied topics:


|  Language  |  Support level  | 
| --- | --- | 
|  English  | Optimized and supported | 
|  French  | Optimized and supported | 
|  Spanish  |  Optimized and supported  | 

## Word filters language support
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[Word filters](guardrails-word-filters.md) support the following languages.

### Word filters language support
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|  Language  |  Support level  | 
| --- | --- | 
|  English  | Supported | 
|  French  | Supported | 
|  Spanish  |  Supported  | 

## Sensitive information filters language support
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[Sensitive information filters](guardrails-sensitive-filters.md) support the following languages.

### Sensitive information filters language support
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|  Language  | Support level | 
| --- | --- | 
|  Arabic  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Chinese  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Dutch  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  English  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Finnish  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  French  | Optimized and supported | 
|  German  |  Optimized and supported  | 
| Hindi |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Italian  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Japanese  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Korean  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Norwegian  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Polish  | Optimized and supported | 
|  Portuguese  | Optimized and supported | 
|  Spanish  | Optimized and supported | 
|  Swedish  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  Vietnamese  |  Optimized and supported  | 

## Contextual grounding checks language support
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[Contextual grounding checks](guardrails-contextual-grounding-check.md) support the following languages.

### Contextual grounding checks language support
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|  Language  | Support level | 
| --- | --- | 
|  English  |  Optimized and supported  | 
|  French  | Optimized and supported | 
|  Spanish  |  Optimized and supported  |