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
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 Tags for identifying languages
Languages supported by Amazon Comprehend features
Feature |
Supported languages |
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See Dominant language. |
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All supported languages. |
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All supported languages. |
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English and Spanish. |
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| English and Spanish. | |
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All supported languages. |
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English. |
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German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), and Portuguese (pt). |
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Not dependent on the language used. Doesn't support character-based languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. |
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Plain-text models support the following languages: German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), and Portuguese (pt). Native document models support English documents only. |
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German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), and Portuguese (pt). Custom Entity Recognition for PDF and Word supports English documents only. |
