# Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2
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Amazon Lex V2 supports a variety of languages and locales. This topic lists the languages that are supported and the features that support these languages.

## Supported languages and locales
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Amazon Lex V2 supports the following languages and locales.


| Code | Language and locale | 
| --- | --- | 
| af\$1ZA\$1 | Afrikaans (South Africa) | 
| ar\$1AE | Gulf Arabic (United Arab Emirates) | 
| ar\$1SA\$1 | Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | 
| bg\$1BG\$1 | Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | 
| ca\$1ES | Catalan (Spain) | 
| cs\$1CZ\$1 | Czech (Czech Republic) | 
| cy\$1GB\$1 | Welsh (United Kingdom) | 
| da\$1DK\$1 | Danish (Denmark) | 
| de\$1AT | German (Austria) | 
| de\$1CH\$1 | German (Switzerland) | 
| de\$1DE | German (Germany) | 
| en\$1AB\$1 | English (Scotland) | 
| en\$1AU | English (Australia) | 
| en\$1GB | English (UK) | 
| en\$1IE\$1 | English (Ireland) | 
| en\$1IN | English (India) | 
| en\$1NZ\$1 | English (New Zealand) | 
| en\$1US | English (US) | 
| en\$1WL\$1 | English (Wales) | 
| en\$1ZA | English (South Africa) | 
| es\$1419 | Spanish (Latin America) | 
| es\$1ES | Spanish (Spain) | 
| es\$1MX\$1 | Spanish (Mexico) | 
| es\$1US | Spanish (US) | 
| et\$1ET\$1 | Estonian (Estonia) | 
| fa\$1IR\$1 | Farsi (Iran) | 
| fi\$1FI | Finnish (Finland) | 
| fr\$1BE\$1 | French (Belgium) | 
| fr\$1CA | French (Canada) | 
| fr\$1FR | French (France) | 
| he\$1IL\$1 | Hebrew (Israel) | 
| hi\$1IN | Hindi (India) | 
| hr\$1HR\$1 | Croatian (Croatia) | 
| hu\$1HU\$1 | Hungarian (Hungary) | 
| id\$1ID\$1 | Indonesian (Indonesia) | 
| is\$1IS\$1 | Icelandic (Iceland) | 
| it\$1IT | Italian (Italy) | 
| ja\$1JP | Japanese (Japan) | 
| km\$1KH\$1 | Khmer (Cambodia) | 
| ko\$1KR | Korean (Korea) | 
| lt\$1LT\$1 | Lithuanian (Lithuania) | 
| lv\$1LV\$1 | Latvian (Latvia) | 
| ms\$1MY\$1 | Malay (Malaysia) | 
| nl\$1BE\$1 | Dutch (Belgium) | 
| nl\$1NL | Dutch (The Netherlands) | 
| no\$1NO | Norwegian (Norway) | 
| pl\$1PL | Polish (Poland) | 
| pt\$1BR | Portuguese (Brazil) | 
| pt\$1PT | Portuguese (Portugal) | 
| ro\$1RO\$1 | Romanian (Romania) | 
| sk\$1SK\$1 | Slovak (Slovakia) | 
| sl\$1SI\$1 | Slovenian (Slovenia) | 
| so\$1SO\$1 | Somali (Somalia) | 
| sr\$1RS\$1 | Serbian (Serbia) | 
| su\$1ID\$1 | Sundanese (Indonesia) | 
| sv\$1SE | Swedish (Sweden) | 
| th\$1TH\$1 | Thai (Thailand) | 
| tl\$1PH\$1 | Tagalog/Filipino (Philippines) | 
| tr\$1TR\$1 | Turkish (Turkey) | 
| uk\$1UA\$1 | Ukrainian (Ukraine) | 
| vi\$1VN\$1 | Vietnamese (Vietnam) | 
| zh\$1CN | Mandarin (PRC) | 
| zh\$1HK | Cantonese (Hong Kong) | 
| zu\$1ZA\$1 | Zulu (South Africa) | 

**\$1Locales with limited feature support via [AMAZON.QInConnectIntent](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lexv2/latest/dg/built-in-intent-qinconnect.html) and Third-party(3P) Automatic Speech Recognition(ASR) or Text-To-Speech(TTS). See below table for a complete list of supported features.**

## Languages and locales supported by Amazon Lex V2 features
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The following table lists Amazon Lex V2 features that are limited to certain languages and locales. All other Amazon Lex V2 features are supported in all languages and locales.


| Feature | Supported languages and locales | 
| --- | --- | 
| [AMAZON.AlphaNumeric](built-in-slot-alphanumeric.md) | All languages and locales except Korean (ko\$1KR) and limited feature support locales  | 
| [AMAZON.KendraSearchIntent](built-in-intent-kendra-search.md) | English (US) (en\$1US) | 
| [Improving speech recognition with a custom vocabulary](vocab.md) | English (UK) (en\$1GB) English (US) (en\$1US)  | 
| [Automated Chatbot Designer](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lexv2/latest/dg/designing.html) | English (US) (en\$1US) | 
| Region availability | The following languages and locales are not available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1) and Africa (Cape Town) (ap-south-1) Regions: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lexv2/latest/dg/how-languages.html) | 
| [Setting intent context for your Lex V2 bot](context-mgmt-active-context.md) | English (US) (en\$1US) | 
| [Grammar slot type](building-srgs.md) | English (Australia) (en\$1AU) English (UK) (en\$1GB) English (US) (en\$1US) | 
| [Using multiple values in a slot](multi-valued-slots.md) | English (US) (en\$1US) | 
| [Improving recognition of slot values with runtime hints in the conversation](using-hints.md) | English (UK) (en\$1GB) English (US) (en\$1US) | 
| [Capturing slot values with spelling styles during the conversation](spelling-styles.md) | English (Australia) (en\$1AU) English (UK) (en\$1GB) English (US) (en\$1US) | 
| [Using confidence scores to improve conversation accuracy](confidence-scores.md) | English (UK) (en\$1GB) English (US) (en\$1US) | 
| Only with [AMAZON.QInConnectIntent](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lexv2/latest/dg/built-in-intent-qinconnect.html) | Afrikaans (South Africa) (af\$1ZA) Arabic (Saudi Arabia) (ar\$1SA) Bulgarian (Bulgaria) (bg\$1BG) Czech (Czech Republic) (cs\$1CZ) Croatian (Croatia) (hr\$1HR) Danish (Denmark) (da\$1DK) Dutch (Belgium) (nl\$1BE) English (Scotland) (en\$1AB) English (Ireland) (en\$1IE) English (New Zealand) (en\$1NZ) English (Wales) (en\$1WL) Estonian (Estonia) (et\$1ET) Farsi (Iran) (fa\$1IR) French (Belgium) (fr\$1BE) German (Switzerland) (de\$1CH) Hebrew (Israel) (he\$1IL) Hungarian (Hungary) (hu\$1HU) Icelandic (Iceland) (is\$1IS) Indonesian (Indonesia) (id\$1ID) Khmer (Cambodia) (km\$1KH) Latvian (Latvia) (lv\$1LV) Lithuanian (Lithuania) (lt\$1LT) Malay (Malaysia) (ms\$1MY) Romanian (Romania) (ro\$1RO) Serbian (Serbia) (sr\$1RS) Slovak (Slovakia) (sk\$1SK) Slovenian (Slovenia) (sl\$1SI) Somali (Somalia) (so\$1SO) Spanish (Mexico) (es\$1MX) Sundanese (Indonesia) (su\$1ID) Tagalog/Filipino (Philippines) (tl\$1PH) Thai (Thailand) (th\$1TH) Turkish (Turkey) (tr\$1TR) Ukrainian (Ukraine) (uk\$1UA) Vietnamese (Vietnam) (vi\$1VN) Welsh (United Kingdom) (cy\$1GB) Zulu (South Africa) (zu\$1ZA) | 
| Only with Third-party ASR (Deepgram) | Dutch (Belgium) (nl\$1BE) French (Belgium) (fr\$1BE) | 
| Only with Third-party TTS (ElevenLabs) | Afrikaans (South Africa) (af\$1ZA) Bulgarian (Bulgaria) (bg\$1BG) Croatian (Croatia) (hr\$1HR) English (Scotland) (en\$1AB) Estonian (Estonia) (et\$1ET) Farsi (Iran) (fa\$1IR) Hebrew (Israel) (he\$1IL) Hungarian (Hungary) (hu\$1HU) Indonesian (Indonesia) (id\$1ID) Latvian (Latvia) (lv\$1LV) Lithuanian (Lithuania) (lt\$1LT) Malay (Malaysia) (ms\$1MY) Serbian (Serbia) (sr\$1RS) Slovak (Slovakia) (sk\$1SK) Slovenian (Slovenia) (sl\$1SI) | 

## Regions
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For a list of AWS Regions where Amazon Lex V2 is available, see [ AWS regions and endpoints ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/lex.html) in the AWS General Reference.